Andrei Kolas
sentenced to 3 years of restricted freedom
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 14 January 1981
Date of detention: 11 June 2021
Charges indicted:
- Part 2 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code — Hooliganism committed by a group of persons
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")
Date of release: 20 June 2024
Judge: Ina Klyshpach
Cases: Protests in Brest
Andrei Kolas is a resident of Brest sentenced to three years of restricted freedom in an open correctional facility ("khimiya") in a criminal case for hanging a protest effigy (Part 2 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code, hooliganism committed by a group of persons).
According to the investigation, on October 23, 2020, Yuliya Bodak and Volha Zavadskaya made effigies out of garbage bags, plastic bottles and dry vegetation and brought them to the place of "execution" outside Brest. Andrei Kolas hung it together with an "unidentified person", whom he met in a Telegram chat.
