Aleh Nichyporka

sentenced to 3 years

Date of birth: 28 June 1998

Date of detention: 20 November 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 370 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of state symbols
Art. 218 of the Criminal Code — Intentional destruction or damage to property committed in a generally dangerous manner or causing damage on a large scale
Art. 341 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of structures and damage to property

Sentence: 3 years and 6 month

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Natallia Minchanka, Alena Niamkova

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

Oleg Nichiporko lives in Biaroza and was previously convicted. He was detained on suspicion of committing a crime on November 17, 2021. On November 20, 2021, Oleg was placed in custody.

He was sentenced to three years in a general-security penal colony on a number of articles of the Criminal Code:

Art. 370 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of state symbols;
Art. 218 of the Criminal Code — Intentional destruction or damage to property committed in a generally dangerous manner or causing damage on a large scale;
Art. 341 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of buildings and damage to property.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

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