Aliaksei Mandzik

general practitioner, sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 12 April 1993

Date of detention: 8 November 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Part 1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Organization of riots
  • Art. 361 of the Criminal Code — Calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
  • Art. 309 of the Criminal Code — Intentional disrepair of a vehicle or communication lines

Sentence: 7 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Anatol Zayats

Prison: Penal colony No. 2

Groups: Doctors

Aliaksei Mandzik was arrested in November 2021. He works at the 5th city polyclinic as the head of the prevention department and a general practitioner.

The reason for the arrest reported by GUBAZiK (Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption) was his subscription to "destructive Telegram channels" and posting "destructive and insulting comments" referring to police officers.

A pro-government resource published his "letter of repentance".

In June 2020, his case was tried in the Hrodna Regional Court by Judge Anatol Zayats. Mandzik was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

Aliaksei Mandzik was included in the 'List of Belarusian citizens, foreign citizens, and stateless persons involved in extremist activities'.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 2. 213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1

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