Alyaksey Bagdzey

Prisoner

Date of birth: 21 February 2001

Date of detention: 20 April 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Part 1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Organization of riots

Sentence: 6 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Maksim Halubovich

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

Cases: Protests in Hrodna

On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)

Aliaksei Bahdzei, 21,  is a Hrodna resident. He graduated from a music school and is a prize-winner in music competitions. Bahdzei entered Yanka Kupala State University of Hrodna where he studied mathematics and computer science.

Bahdzei was sentenced to six years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony for ‘preparing to organize mass riots’—publishing on the internet calls for the overthrow of the government, resistance to the police, and blocking roads—under Part 1 of Article 13 and Part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code.

On June 14, 2022, the KGB put him on the list of terrorists.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

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