Illia Shamilau
Prisoner
Date of birth: 2 August 1987
Charges indicted:
- Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Siarhei Maruchak
Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 7
Illia Shamilau was convicted under Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code. The trial took place on February 13 and 14, 2024, at the Brest District Court, presided over by Judge Siarhei Maruchak.
On October 30 and November 8, 2023, two administrative protocols were filed against Illia under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code (Distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls to extremist activity or propagandizing such activity).
On February 14, 2024, he was sentenced to two years in a penal colony.
