Yauhen Raznichenka
sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison, served full sentence
Date of birth: 9 January 1985
Date of detention: 30 May 2020
Charges indicted:
Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
Sentence: 3 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 24 April 2023
Judge: Volha Bekushava
Prosecutor: Mikita Myslivets
Yauhen Raznichenka is a defendant in the "Tsikhanouski case" initiated after the election picket of May 29, 2020, in Hrodna.
On May 29, during an election picket held in Hrodna to collect signatures in support of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's nomination, police detained her husband, the head of her nomination group and popular YouTube vlogger Siarhei Tsikhanouski, together with at least 15 other people. The detention came after several women physically attacked the blogger. The police intervened and a police officer fell, which was used as a pretext to arrest Tsikhanouski and other participants. A criminal case was instituted under Article 342 of the Criminal Code ('Organization and active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order').
Yauhen Raznichenka was arrested the day after the incident. He also faced charges under Article 364 of the Criminal Code ('Violence against a police officer').
On June 2, 2021, after a long trial at the Kastryčnicki District Court of Hrodna, Yauhen Raznichenka was sentenced to three years and six months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
Yauhen Raznichenka served his full sentence and was released on April 24, 2023, from penal colony #17 in Škloŭ, Mahilioŭ region.
Members of Tsikhanouski’s team sentenced to 2 to 4 years in Hrodna
