Daniil was born on 15 October 2000, a local of Brest. He was interested in creating music, in programming, and wanted to develop Android and Windows applications. Before his arrest, he worked as a taxi driver, tried to integrate into the sphere, the community.

Political views

*We are unaware of his political views, but since he is detained under the anarchists’ case, we consider it important to support him in every possible way.

The history of detention and the case

March 2, 2021 in Brest a number of activists and young people, who were probably on the list of Main Department for Combating Organized Crime as politically unreliable, were detained. During the week Aleksandr Kozlyanko, Andrey Marach, Pavel Shpetny, Nikita Dranets, Daniil Chul’, Aleksey Golovko were detained.

Each of the detainees was charged with gross violation of order (Art. 342) and participation in an international criminal organisation (Art. 285.2).

It later became clear that the activists Akikhiro Gaevsky-Khanada, Andrey Chepyuk i Aleksandr Frantskevich, detained back in August-September 2020, and human rights activist Marfa Rabkova were also charged with the same case.
By the beginning of the trial the majority of the detained were charged under three-dozen articles of the Criminal Code. The grounds for the charges were the anarchists’ actions against the battery factory (blocking the Brest-Minsk highway), the participation of anarchists in the march of Non-sclackers in Brest in 2017 and graffiti. Interestingly, at one time the march of Non-slackers was qualified as a mass event and some anarchists received an administrative arrest for it. For some reason, 4 years later, they decided to initiate a criminal case.

Sentence

On April 25, 2022 in Minsk city court the hearing of the “international criminal organization” of anarchists began. According to the investigation, the activists of the Revolutionary Action in Belarus, Revolutionary Freedom in Ukraine and People’s Self-Defense in Russia created a criminal organization to undermine the regimes.

On September 6, 2022, Judge Sergey Hripach pronounced the verdict to the 10 defendants in the case of international criminal organization.
Daniil was sentenced to 5 years in a reinforced regime colony and a fine of about €5,600.

Detention conditions

Daniil, like many other political prisoners, has difficulties in receiving letters. While letters from relatives are sometimes allowed to be received by him, letters from friends and acquaintances are almost never received.

In his free time from work in the colony, Daniil reads books and tries to keep up his physical shape with various exercises.

Relatives

His wife and young son, his parents and younger sister are waiting for him at home.

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