Artsiom Fedasenka

printing house director, sentenced to 4 years in prison

Prisoner

Date of birth: 9 October 1981

Date of detention: 19 March 2021

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Valiantsina Ziankevich

Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Ramanovich

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Groups: Businessmen

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Godparent: Christina-Johanne Schröder is a member of the German Bundestag for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

Artsiom Fedasenka is the director of a private printing house from Minsk. He was detained for printing "unregistered newspapers, stickers, and protest leaflets using the company's equipment".

As a result, Artsiom was charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (organization or active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order).

Artsiom was held in a pre-trial detention center.

On January 14, 2022, Fedasenka was sentenced to 4 years in prison.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8

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