Yauhen Kisleika

sentenced to 1 1/2 years of imprisonment

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 11 March 1987

Date of detention: 10 September 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies

Sentence: 1 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 9 September 2021

Date of release: 16 November 2022

Yauhen Kisleika was sentenced to one year six months of restricted freedom in an open correctional institution (“khimiya”) under Art. 364 of the Criminal Code.

Kisleika was found guilty of posting an offensive comment about Interior Minister Kubrakou.

In mid-August 2022, it became known that Yauhen had had his custody level raised to imprisonment in a penal colony.

Yauhen completed his sentence and was released on November 16, 2022.

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