Ivan Soupel

sentenced to 4 years in prison

Date of birth: 15 December 1993

Date of detention: 22 March 2021

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Aliaksandr Semianchuk

Prosecutor: Fiodar Liashok, Andrei Manko

Prison: Penal colony No. 2

Ivan Soupel is a resident of Brest, a defendant in a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (participation in riots) opened after the post-election protests of August 2020.

Ivan was at large under recognizance not to leave, but on March 22, 2021, he was summoned to the investigator and detained there.

On November 8, the Lieninski District Court of Brest sentenced the political prisoner to 4 years in a medium-security penal colony on charges under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code.

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

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