Andrei Prymaka
sentenced to imprisonment
Date of birth: 14 January 1977
Date of detention: 15 January 2023
Charges indicted:
Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
Sentence: 4 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 29 June 2023
Judge: Yauhen Pisarevich
Prison: Penal colony No. 15
Andrei Prymaka was arrested as a defendant in a criminal case under three articles of the Criminal Code: Article 368 ('Contempt of the President of Belarus'), Article 342 ('Organization and preparation of actions grossly disrupting public order or active participation in them'), and Article 361-1 ('Creation of or participation in an extremist formation'). The last charges stemmed from his registration in the Peramoha plan.
In June 2023, he was convicted and sentenced to four years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
On June 29, 2023, he was transferred from remand prison #1 in Minsk to penal colony #15 in Mahilioŭ to serve his sentence.
The exact date of his arrest is to be clarified.
