Yana Mileuskaya

served full term, released

Date of birth: 5 May 1996

Date of detention: 7 September 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 370 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of state symbols

Sentence: 1 year

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 23 June 2022

Judge: Siarhei Salouski

Yana Mileuskaya was detained on September 7, 2021 on charges of committing a crime under Article 370 of the Criminal Code (insulting the state flag).

She and two other men were accused of removing a flag from a building in Homieĺ.

Yana served her sentence in full and was released on 23 June 2022.

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