Aliaksandr’s birthday is October 8, 1982 and he lived in Minsk.

Political views

According to the words of some friends and relatives, Aliaksandr is an anarchist.

The story of the detention and the case

Aliaksandr was detained on August 22, 2021 near the cottage of the chairman of the Supreme Court Sukalo. Aliaksandr was accused of attempted arson of the cottage (part 1 of article 14 and part 2 of article 289 of the Criminal Code Attempt of terrorist act in a group of persons).

According to our information, he went to the case with the provocateur Akulich Dmitriy Alexandrovich, whom they met on a day when Alexander was detained on administrative article 23.34 (participation in an unauthorized protest, now is 24.23 of the Administrative Code) at the protests in November 2020. The status of Akulich in the criminal case is not unknown to us, but most likely he is being held as a witness with a fake name of Sergeenko. It is noteworthy that Akulich was given a real passport with a fake name to provoke Zaytsev.

Verdict

The trial was closed and went on for three weeks.
On April 15, 2022, Judge Sergei Epikhov sentenced Aliaksandr to 10 years of imprisonment in a reinforced regime colony.

Conditions of detention

Before the trial Aliaksandr spent eight months in SIZO-1 on Volodarskogo Street in Minsk.

On May 24, 2022, the KGB put Aliaksandr Zaitsau on the “list of persons involved in terrorist activities”, which means that he is forbidden to receive money transfers.

At the moment he is in the colony and is obliged to wear a yellow tag, which is a marking for all political prisoners and “prone to extremism”.

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