Yakau Shafarenka

sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison

Prisoner

Date of birth: 26 April 2000

Date of detention: 20 December 2020

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 5 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Aliaksandr Semianchuk

Prosecutor: Fiodar Liashok, Andrei Manko

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Cases: Protests in Brest

Yakau Shafarenka 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.

On November 8, the Lieninski District Court of Brest sentenced the political prisoner to 5 ½ years in a medium-security penal colony on charges under Part 2 of Art. 293 and Part 3 of Art. 205 of the Criminal Code.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8

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