human rights defender
Andrzej Poczobut
Actions and Campaigns
Andrzej Poczobut
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Urgent support needed
Medical assistance
Organization affiliation
- Union of Poles in Belarus
HRD's year of birth
1973
HRD's Gender
Man
Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Minorities’ rights
HRD's geographical origin
Urban
Current Status
Released
HRD's bio and work
Andrzej Poczobut is a journalist and a member of the Union of Poles in Belarus.
Detained since
Mar 25, 2021
Date of release
Apr 28, 2026
Charge(s)
- Other
- Subversion
Sentence
8 years
Latitude: 55.54
Longitude: 28.58
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
Location of detention - City/Town
Navapolack
Location of detention - Facility
Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8
Recent case update / evolution
Released on 28 April 2026 as part of a "five-for-five" prisoner exchange.
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's year of birth
- 1973
- HRD's Gender
- Man
- Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Minorities’ rights
- Organization affiliation
- Union of Poles in Belarus
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
Andrzej Poczobut is a journalist and a member of the Union of Poles in Belarus.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Navapolack
- Location of detention - Facility
- Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 55.54
Longitude: 28.58
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Mar 25, 2021
- Current Status
- Released
- Date of release
- Apr 28, 2026
- Charge(s)
- Other
- Subversion
- Sentence
8 years
- Recent case update / evolution
Released on 28 April 2026 as part of a "five-for-five" prisoner exchange.
- Protection actions and campaigns
- Urgent support needed
Medical assistance
- Documented by
- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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