Former political prisonersReleased

Siarhei Viktaravich Sak

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

He was convicted under the article on insulting the president (Article 368 of the Criminal Code).

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

In April 2025, he was added to the list of extremists, as convicted under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, which means that Sergei was tried for the second time in 2025, but this time for participating in the 2020 protests. The sentence is unknown.

Sentences

Trial outcome 23.07.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown.

Involved in repression

Artem Sergeevich Flowers
Artem Sergeevich Flowers
State prosecutors1 july 1997
Place:
Court of the Central District of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
23.07.2021
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Dmitriy Sergeyevich Karsyuk
Dmitriy Sergeyevich Karsyuk
Judges12 july 1995
Place:
Court of the Central District of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
23.07.2021
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Siarhei Viktaravich Sak
In custody:
Hometown:
Minsk
Birthday:
16.02.1985
Was held in:
IUOT-21, 247783, Gomel region, Mozyr, b-r Yunosti, 24
Articles:
Marks:

Timeline

  1. 2021
  2. 23.07.2021

    Trial outcome 23.07.2021

    2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, Court of the Central District of Minsk

  3. ~06.11.2021

    Transfer

    IUOT-21 — Penal labor facility

  4. 2023
  5. ~06.11.2023

    Status change

    Released

  6. 2025
  7. ~03.04.2025

    Trial outcome date unknown

    unknown