Yauhen Tazau

Date of birth: 12 August 1988

Date of detention: 30 September 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 2 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 9 March 2023

Judge: Dzmitryi Kurouski

Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Batsiushka

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

Yauhen Tazau was detained for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

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