Illia Bokhan

sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison

Date of birth: 7 March 2003

Date of detention: 5 May 2021

Charges indicted:

Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code β€” Participation in riots

Sentence: 3 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Andrei Hrushko

Prosecutor: Alena Tsikhanovich

Prison: Penal colony No. 2

Illia Bokhan is a defendant in the case of "mass riots" (Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code) opened over the events in Pinsk on the night after the August 9 elections.

The trial in the case started on May 31, 2021.

On October 21, 2021, the Lieninski District Court of Brest sentenced Illia Bokhan to three and a half years in a penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 2. 213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1

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