Aleh Famin
entrepreneur, football manager, served full term, released
Date of birth: 26 May 1974
Date of detention: 15 August 2020
Charges indicted:
Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 5 November 2022
Judge: Mikalai Talashka
Aleh Famin is a 46-years-old entrepreneur from Vaŭkavysk. He is also a football coach. Famin has a 10-year-old daughter.
On August 15, 2020, Aleh Famin allegedly approached police officer Viachaslau Ivanou, called him a fascist, insulted him, and promised physical violence. Then a quarrel broke out and finally a fight. At one point, Anastasiya Famina, Aleh's wife, joined the fight. Famin did not admit his guilt, saying that it was the officer who started the fight.
On December 24, 2020, Judge Mikalai Talashka of the Vaŭkavysk District Court sentenced Anastasiya Famina to 1 1/2 years of restricted freedom (so-called "home imprisonment") and her husband Aleh Famin to two and a half years in a general-security penal colony. Aleh also has to pay the policeman 2,000 rubles in moral and physical damages.
The political prisoner served his term in full and was released on November 5, 2022.
