Artsiom Salavei
anarchist, sentenced to 4 1/2 years
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 9 June 1995
Date of detention: 4 August 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
- Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
Sentence: 4 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Alena Misnik
Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Ramanovich
Groups: Activists
Notes: Pardon / amnesty
Cases: The Pramen case
Artsiom Salavei was arrested on August 4, 2021 as part of a criminal case.
He was later charged under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (organization or active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order).
On April 22, 2022 the Minsk Regional Court sentenced the anarchists and political prisoners. Judge Alena Misnik found them guilty under part 1 of article 342 of the Criminal Code and part 3 of article 361-1 and pronounced the following sentences: Aliaksandr Bialou, Yauhen Rubashka, and Artsiom Salavei, born in 1996, each received five years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony, Artsiom Salavei, born in 1995, received four and a half years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
Criminal case against four anarchists to be considered in private
Anarchist political prisoners sentenced in Minsk
