Illia Labatsevich
sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison
Date of birth: 16 December 1982
Date of detention: 14 September 2020
Charges indicted:
Art. 364 of the Criminal Code - Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
Sentence: 1 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Vital Lapko
Prison: Penal colony No. 17
Illia Labatsevich is a resident of Navapolack.
He convicted of violent actions against a police officer (Article 364 of the Criminal Code).
On September 14, in one of the Sunday protests, Labatsevich was walking with his mother when riot police started beating a man in front of them. They decided to stand up for the guy. As a result, they were also beaten. Labatsevich tried to protect his mother, for which he received a severe blow to the head with a truncheon.
On November 27, the Navapolack District Court sentenced Illia Labatsevich to one and a half years in a general-security penal colony.