Artsiom Parkhamovich
sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 26 December 1995
Date of detention: 22 October 2020
Charges indicted:
Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
Art. 365 of the Criminal Code — Interference in the activities of a police officer
Art. 366 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Art. 352 of the Criminal Code — Illegal acquisition of computer information
Art. 203-1 of the Criminal Code — Illegal actions with respect to information about private life and personal data
Art. 198 of the Criminal Code — Obstruction of a journalist lawful professional activity
Art. 389 of the Criminal Code — Threat to a judge or lay judge
Sentence: 11 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Sviatlana Bandarenka
Prosecutor: Natallia Sakalova
Prison: Penal colony No. 17
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Palina Matysiak, Member of the Polish Sejm
Artsiom Parkhamovich is an employee of the Beltelecom government-owned company arrested on October 22, 2020 and charged under Art. 130, 198, 203-1, 352, 364, 365, 366, 389 of the Criminal Code (complicity in deliberate actions aimed at inciting other social enmity and discord on the basis of a different social belonging, committed by a group of persons, etc.) for leaking information about law enforcement officers to a Telegram channel.
The trial began on November 25, 2021, in Minsk City Court. It was held in private at the request of prosecutor Natallia Sakalova.
On February 9, Judge Sviatlana Bandarenka sentenced Artsiom Parkhamovich to 11 years in a medium-security penal colony.
