Aliaksei Kireyeu

sentenced to 24 months of penal colony

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 3 February 1972

Date of detention: 28 October 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 28 August 2024

Judge: Aliaksandr Volk

Prosecutor: R.

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Aliaksei Kireyeu was detained on October 28, 2022. After 10 days in a detention center, he was remanded to a pre-trial detention center under the charges of participation in the protest actions in 2020 (Article 342 of the Criminal Code, 'Organization and preparation of actions grossly breaching public order, or active participation in them').

On February 10, 2023, in the Saviecki District Court of Minsk, Judge Aliaksandr Volk found Kireyeu guilty and sentenced him to 24 months of imprisonment in general security penal colony.

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