Yauhen Hrytsok

sentenced to 3 years under home confinement

Date of birth: 13 March 1988

Date of detention: 12 August 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 342 of the Criminal Code β€” Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: restricted freedom under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")

Judge: Mikhail Makarevich

Yauhen Hrytsok

Yauhen Hrytsok lives in Akciabrski. He was arrested on August 12, 2022, and charged with ‘group actions that grossly violated the public order’ under Article 342 of the Criminal Code.

On 26 October 2022, Judge Mikhail Makarevich of the Partyzanski District Court of Minsk found the political prisoner guilty and sentenced him to three years of restricted freedom under home confinement. After spending two months in pre-trial detention, Hrytsok was released in the courtroom.

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