Pavel Kuchynski
Prisoner
Date of birth: 2 March 1992
Date of detention: 5 September 2022
Charges indicted:
- Part 3 of Art. 293 of the Criminal code — Training or other preparation of persons for participation in mass riots, or financing of this activity
- Art. 295 of the Criminal Code — Unlawful acts against firearms, ammunition and explosives
- Art. 356 of the Criminal Code — High treason
- Art. 309 of the Criminal Code — Intentional disrepair of a vehicle or communication lines
- Art. 295-3 of the Criminal Code — Illegal actions in relation to objects which action is based on use of combustible substances
- Art. 289 of the Criminal Code — An act of terrorism
- Art. 290-4 of the Criminal Code — Establishing or participating in an organization for the purpose of terrorist activity
- Art. 290 of the Criminal Code — Threat to commit an act of terrorism
Sentence: 19 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Aliaksandr Rybakou
Groups: The military
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Pavel Kuchynski was arrested in early September 2022.
He was charged under several articles of the Criminal Code:
Part 1 of Article 356 — High treason;
Part 2 of Article 295-3 — Illegal actions in relation to objects which action is based on use of combustible substances;
Part 4 of Article 295 — Unlawful acts against firearms, ammunition and explosives;
Part 2 of Article 290-4 — Establishing or participating in an organization for the purpose of terrorist activity;;
Part 3 of Article 289 — An act of terrorism;
Part 1 of Article 309 — Intentional disrepair of a vehicle or communication lines.
On October 4 the trial took place in the Minsk Region Court. Aliaksandr Rybakou was appointed as a judge in the case. He was the one who conducted the first trial in the "Tsikhanouski case" in 2021.
On December 15, 2023, Kuchynski was sentenced to nineteen years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.
