Kiryl Davidziuk
sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 8 April 1999
Date of detention: 29 July 2022
Charges indicted:
Art. 370 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of state symbols
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Iryna Dziatsuk
Prison: Penal colony No. 2
Kiryl Davidziuk was detained on July 29, 2022, and charged with ‘desecrating state symbols’ and taken into custody under Article 370 of the Criminal Code for a broken pole of the state flag.
On October 3, 2022, the case of a political prisoner was heard at an off-site hearing in the Kobryn district police department. It is known that the prosecutor demanded 18 months' imprisonment. Davidziuk had a prior unspent conviction, 18 months of restricted freedom in an open-type penal facility, so the state prosecution asked for a total of 24 months of imprisonment in a penal colony. Judge Iryna Dziatsuk granted this request.
