Yahor Prakapchuk

sentenced to 4 years in prison

Date of birth: 12 October 2001

Date of detention: 19 August 2020

Charges indicted:

Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Vera Filonik

Prison: Penal colony No. 22

Yahor Prakapchuk was detained in Brest on August 19 together with his father Vital.

Prakapchuk was charged with participation in "mass riots" (Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code).

On March 10, 2021, Judge Vera Filonik of the Maskoŭski District Court of Brest sentenced Prakapchuk to 4 years in a medium-security penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 22. 225295, Brest region, Ivacevičy, station Damanava, PO Box 20

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