Tsikhan Kliukach
sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 25 July 2002
Date of detention: 30 November 2020
Charges indicted:
- Part 3 of Art. 293 of the Criminal code — Training or other preparation of persons for participation in mass riots, or financing of this activity
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
- Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
- art. 188 of the Criminal Code — Defamation
- Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities
- Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code — Participation or preparing to participate in hostilities on foreign soil by a Republic of Belarus citizen
- Article 361-5 of the Criminal Code — Receiving training or other training to participate in extremist activities
Sentence: 1 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 9 March 2022
Judge: Volha Niaborskaya
Prosecutor: Ulyana Rudnitskaya
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Notes: Trials in absentia, War in Ukraine
Tsikhan Kliukach was detained on September 26 and then sentenced to a total of 45 days in jail for participating in unauthorized mass events. After this, he was transferred to Minsk, and from there to the Žodzina pre-trial detention center on December 3.
Tsikhan is charged under Part 1 of Art. 342 (organization or participation in group actions that gravely breach public order) and Part 2 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed by a group of persons). The charges stem from his involvement in the March of Unity on September 6, when he, together with Safiya Malashevich, spray-painted several drawings and slogans on the metal shields installed on riot-control vehicles.
On January 22, 2021, Judge Volha Niaborskaya of the Kastryčnicki District Court of Minsk sentenced Kliukach to 1 ½ years in a general security penal colony. During the trial, the prosecution dropped the vandalism charges against him.
