Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich has been transferred from penal colony No. 14 in Navasady to Hrodna prison No. 1, an informed source told "Radio Svaboda". According to the source, Autukhovich has been in Hrodna prison since January 31.
Mikalai Autukhovich. Photo: "Nasha Niva"
The decision to transfer Autukhovich to a prison regime was made by an off-site court in the colony on January 23. It is still unknown for how many years Mikalai Autukhovich was again transferred to a prison regime.
According to the source, Mikalai Autukhovich ended up in the same cell he occupied before being transferred from Hrodna prison to Navasady at the end of 2025.
"The transfer took one day; he was already in his former cell on January 31. The only problem is that not all of his belongings were returned to him," the source reported.
Autukhovich's health condition, according to the source, remains the same:
"He always has problems with his teeth, but he said not to worry about him."
Mikalai Autukhovich spent more than three years in Hrodna prison No. 1 out of a total term of 25 years, which he was sentenced to by the court in 2022. The political prisoner was transferred to the colony in Navasady at the end of last year because his term under the strict prison regime had ended, but after only three weeks in the new location, Autukhovich was again brought before a court, which for the second time assigned him to a prison regime. The reason for the additional punishment of the political prisoner is unknown.
Former entrepreneur from Vaukavysk, human rights defender and activist Mikalai Autukhovich was detained in December 2020, and in October 2022, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison under 10 articles of the Criminal Code, including such serious ones as "act of terrorism" and "conspiracy to seize power by unconstitutional means." According to the verdict, he was to serve the first 5 years under a strict prison regime.
This is Mikalai Autukhovich's third imprisonment. The first was from October 2005 to January 2008. The second was from February 2009 to April 2014, during which he spent more than two years in Hrodna prison before the end of his term.
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