Andrei Siarheyenkau
military lawyer, sentenced to 3 1/2 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 6 April 1995
Date of detention: 9 August 2020
Charges indicted:
- Art. 363 of the Criminal Code — Resistance to a police officer or other person guarding public order
Sentence: 3 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 20 October 2023
Groups: Lawyers and attorneys
Andrei Siarheyenkau is a military lawyer. He was convicted under Article 363 of the Criminal Code to three years and six months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony for resisting arrest and for spraying tear gas at the police while participating in a peaceful assembly on Freedom Square in Polack in the evening of August 9, 2020.
