Dzmitry Vakulenka
served full term, released
Date of birth: 11 February 2003
Date of detention: 18 June 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. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
Sentence: 1 year
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 17 June 2022
Judge: Uladzimir Fedarovich
Prosecutor: Artsiom Rouba
Dzmitry Vakulenka is a resident of Lida, a student of Lida Lyceum of Melioration Construction.
Dzmitry was charged in a criminal case under Article 364 of the Criminal Code (violence against police officers) and Article 342 of the Criminal Code (group actions that grossly violate public order). According to the accusation, Vakulenka and four other people, acting in a group with other persons, threw pieces of paving tiles and other objects at police cars. Dzmitry pleaded partially guilty.
On 18 June 2021, he was sentenced to one year in prison and taken into custody in the courtroom.
According to the information available to human rights defenders, Dzmitry should have been released in June 2022.
