Tsimafei Shkuratovich

lecturer, sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment

Date of birth: 30 August 1992

Date of detention: 30 September 2021

Charges indicted:

Part 1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Organization of riots
Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 1 April 2023

Judge: Zhanna Brysina

On the list of “terrorists” (money transfers are prohibited)

Tsimafei Shkuratovich is a former lecturer at the radio-technical college. He was reportedly detained in the Zeltser case on September 30, 2021, and taken in pre-trial detention.

Judge Zhanna Brysina convicted Shkuratovich of ‘organization of riots’‘insulting a government official’, and ’incitement of hatred’ and sentenced him to 24 months of imprisonment in a penal colony under Part 1 of Article 293, Part 1 of Article 130, and Article 369 of the Criminal Code.

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