Arsenii Maiseichyk
sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 19 May 2002
Date of detention: 9 November 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Part 1 of Article 13 and Article 293 of the Criminal Code — Preparation for mass riots
Sentence: 6 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Andrei Mlechka
Prosecutor: Maryia Malikava
Prison: Penal colony No. 17
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Olivier Cadic, Member of the French Senate
Arsenii Maiseichyk was arrested on November 9, 2021, in a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).
He has been charged and is being held in pre-trial detention center.
On June 22, 2022, Judge Andrei Mlechka started to consider the criminal case in the Frunzienski District Court of Minsk. On July 1, he found Arsenii guilty and sentenced him to six years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.
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