Aliaksandr Hurnik

real estate agent, blogger

Prisoner

Date of birth: 16 September 1981

Date of detention: 29 June 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
  • Art. 361 of the Criminal Code — Calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 5 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Dzmitryi Kurouski

Groups: Bloggers

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Aliaksandr Hurnik is a real estate agent and blogger. 

Now Aliaksandr is charged with calling for protests, participating in them, and insulting officials.

Aliaksandr was beaten during his arrest. It is known that he was also beaten in 2020 during the August protests. Then he filed a complaint to the Investigative Committee, but like in other cases, his request for an investigation was denied.

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