Artsiom Tarasiuk
sentenced to 1 1/2 years
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 29 October 1993
Date of detention: 11 December 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: 1 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 11 December 2021
Date of release: 15 June 2023
Judge: Dzmitryi Kurouski
Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Batsiushka, Mikhail Yushchuk
Cases: The round dance case
Arciom Tarasiuk is a defendant in the criminal case known as the “dancing protest case”, which was brought after a protest in Brest on September 13, 2020, under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (Group Actions Grossly Violating Public Order).
He was sentenced to 18 months of freedom restriction in an open penitentiary.
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