Filip Kantsevich
sentenced to 4 years in prison
Date of birth: 26 June 2000
Date of detention: 11 March 2021
Charges indicted:
Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots
Sentence: 4 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Aliaksandr Semianchuk
Prosecutor: Fiodar Liashok, Andrei Manko
Prison: Penal colony No. 17
Filip Kantsevich is a resident of Brest, a defendant in a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (participation in riots) opened after protests in the city in August 2020.
After a brief detention, Kantsevich was released on bail, but on March 11, 2021, he was summoned to an investigator and taken into custody. He was held in pre-trial detention center No. 7.
On November 8, the Lieninski District Court of Brest sentenced the political prisoner to 4 years in a medium-security penal colony on charges under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code.
