A 62-year-old employee of the computer science and communications laboratory at the Mozyr Oil Refinery.
Igor Shukanov was brutally and demonstratively detained on August 1, 2024. The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GUBOP) arrived from Minsk to pick him up. He was detained right at his workplace. He was then driven in a UAZ Patriot vehicle outside the plant's gate. Not far from the bus stop, in a parking lot near the plant's main entrance, where people were present at the time, the GUBOP officers staged a demonstrative beating of Shukanov: they dragged him out of the UAZ, threw him face down on the pavement, kneed him in the head, and handcuffed him.
Remarkably, that morning Igor was tried on an administrative charge for spreading "extremism." He was fined and released, only to be arrested a few hours later.
According to calculations, he was supposed to be released in early 2026 .
