Yauhen Karpau

sentenced to 2 1/2 years of imprisonment

Date of birth: 9 December 1993

Date of detention: 3 June 2022

Charges indicted:

Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code — Participation or preparing to participate in hostilities on foreign soil by a Republic of Belarus citizen

Sentence: 2 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Halina Sviatko

Prison: Penal colony No. 15

Yauhen Karpau in court

Yauhen Karpau was convicted of ‘attempted participation in hostilities on foreign soil’ for joining the defenders of sovereign Ukraine under Part 1 of Article 14 and Part 1 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code and sentenced to two and a half years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 15. 213105, Mahilioŭ, Viejna, Slaŭharadskaja šaša 183

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