Yury Dreka
sentenced to 1 year of restricted freedom
Date of birth: 22 September 1984
Date of detention: 27 June 2021
Charges indicted:
Part 1 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code — Hooliganism
Sentence: 1 year
Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")
Date of release: 28 February 2022
Judge: Aliaksandr Volk
Yury Dreka was sentenced on March 13, 2021 by the Saviecki District Court of Minsk to one year of restricted freedom in an open correctional institution under Part 1 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code for spray-painting “SB – Beware, you, b….s” (the slogan refers to the government-owned daily SB – Belarus Segodnya) on the fence of a construction site in the center of Minsk. Several employees of the publishing house “Belarus Segodnya” were recognized as victims, including first deputy director and editor-in-chief Mikhail Liabedzik and journalists Andrei Mukavozchyk, Dzmitry Krat, Liudmila Hladkaya and Raman Rudz.
Yury served his sentence in full and was released on February 28, 2022.
