Dzmitryi Padlobnikau

sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 12 September 1996

Date of detention: 10 January 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Sviatlana Andreyeva

Prosecutor: Andrei Anoshka

Cases: Protests in Žlobin

Dzmitryi Padlobnikau was detained in Moscow. He was accused of violence or threat of violence against an officer of the Interior (Article 364 of the Criminal Code).

Several trials were held in Moscow to extradite Dzmitryi to Belarus, as a result of which the defendant was handed over to the Belarusian authorities, despite the ban by the European Court of Human Rights, to which his lawyers had applied. On January 11, the General Prosecutor's Office of Belarus informed about the extradition of Žlobin.

On May 4, 2022, Padlobnikau was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

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