Hanna Lapo

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 9 June

Date of detention: 23 June 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code β€” Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Sentence: the outcome of the trial is unknown

Penalty: restricted freedom under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")

Judge: Zhanna Khvainitskaya

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Hanna Lapo was detained late June 2022. In a "penitential video," she says that she participated in protests in August 2020 and administered a local Telegram channel of her neighborhood.

She is being held in the pre-trial detention center.

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