Daniil Chaunakou
sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment
Prisoner
Date of birth: 31 October 2001
Date of detention: 17 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
- Art. 361 of the Criminal Code — Calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
Sentence: 5 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Natallia Buhuk
Prison: Penal colony No. 15
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Ottmar von Holtz, a Member of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen fraction in the German Bundestag
Daniil Chaunakou was arrested on November 17, 2021, in a criminal case for group actions grossly violating the public order (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).
He was charged and transferred to pre-trial detention center.
On 13 October 2022, Judge Natallia Buhuk of the Minsk Municipal Court passed a verdict. She found Zhernak guilty under three articles of the Criminal Code:
- ‘calls for restrictive measures (sanctions) and other actions aimed at causing harm to national security’ (Part 3 of Article 361)
- ‘participation in actions that grossly violate the public order’ (Part 1 of Article 342)
- ‘creation of an extremist formation or participation in it’ (Part 1 of Article 361-1)
Zhernak was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.
