Yury Staneuski
sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment
Prisoner
Date of birth: 17 April 1984
Charges indicted:
- Art. 370 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of state symbols
- Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 366 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 7 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 29 December 2022
Judge: Anatol Zayats
Prison: Penal colony No. 15
Cases: Protests in Hrodna
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Yury Staneuski, 38, was detained at the end of December 2021 and taken to the KGB detention center. Then he was transferred to prison No. 1 of Hrodna.
He was charged under a number of articles of the Criminal Code:
- Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus (Part 1 of Article 368)
- Desecration of state symbols (Article 370)
- Violence or threat against an official performing official duties (Part 2 of Article 366)
- Violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty (Part 1 of Article 366)
- Insulting a government official (Article 369)
- Incitement to hatred (Part 1 of Article 130)
The KGB put Staneuski on the list of persons involved in terrorist activities.
On October 4, 2022, the criminal board of the Hrodna Regional Court sentenced Staneuski to seven years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony and a fine of 1,600 rubles ($630). The trial was presided over by Judge Anatol Zayats.
