Maryna Kisialevich
activist
Date of birth: 2 April 1968
Date of detention: 7 February 2022
Charges indicted:
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 4 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 19 August 2022
Judge: Aliaksandr Rudenka
Prison: Penal colony No. 4
Maryna Kisialevich is an activist with the Mothers-328 movement. She was taken into custody on charges under Art. 367 of the Criminal Code for slandering the president. The woman was kept in the Scientific And Practical Center For Mental Health in Navinki for a long time, then she was transferred to pre-trial detention center.
On May 12, 2022, Kastryčnicki District Court of Minsk Maryna Kisialevich was sentenced to four years in an open-type correctional facility. The case was considered by Judge Aliaksandr Rudenka. After the verdict was pronounced, the political prisoner was released in the courtroom.
Maryna's son was sentenced in 2017 to 13 years in prison.
