Illia Pirazhkou
sentenced to 3 years of restricted freedom
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 2 April 2002
Date of detention: 20 February 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 20 February 2021
Date of release: 15 May 2023
Judge: Tatsiana Shotsik
Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Ramanovich
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Illia Pirazhkou is from Minsk. He was sentenced to 3 years of restricted freedom with a referral to an open-type penal facility under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (Active participation in group actions grossly disrupting public order).
Illia Pirazhkou was accused of allegedly blocking the road and thus obstructing the city traffic during the protests on September 23, 2020, in the Sierabranka district of Minsk.
The convict was sent to serve his sentence in open-type penal facility #43 in Mahilioŭ.
On November 29, 2022, the Lieninsky District Court of Mahilioŭ ruled to tighten the regime for Pirazhkou: he was transferred to a general-security penal colony for six months.
The political prisoner was placed in penal colony #15 in Mahilioŭ.
