human rights defender

Siarhei Dziuba

Actions and Campaigns

Organization affiliation

  • Rabochy Rukh (Workers movement) labour rights group

HRD's year of birth

1976

HRD's Gender

Man

Type of HRD

  • Trade union leader

HRD's thematic area of engagement

  • Labour rights

HRD's geographical origin

Urban

Current Status

In prison (sentenced)

HRD's bio and work

Siarhei Dziuba worked as a traffic controller on the Belarusian Railway. He's a very sociable person.

Siarhei was arrested on September 21, 2021, as part of a criminal investigation for 'high treason' involving several employees of Belarusian factories who supported local strikes in 2020 and were members of the Rabochy Rukh labor rights group. On September 21, 2021, Rabochy Rukh was labeled as an ""extremist"" initiative, a decision that sparked the arrests of many workers across the country. In addition, Siarhei was charged with defamation and with the creation of and participation in an extremist formation.

On November 9, 2022, the Homieĺ Regional Court began the trial of the Rabochy Rukh case involving ten political prisoners. At the trial, all the defendants refused to plead guilty to treason and creating an extremist formation. They also refused to testify.

Detained since

Sep 22, 2021

Charge(s)

  • Extremism
  • Treason

Sentence

12 years

Geolocation of detention

Country or area of detention

Region of detention

  • Europe: Eastern Europe

Location of detention - City/Town

Viciebsk region, Vićba

Location of detention - Facility

Penal colony No. 3. 211322, Viciebsk region, Vićba

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