Katsiaryna Hibkaya
sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison, released after serving full sentence
Date of birth: 16 January 1988
Date of detention: 21 October 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Sentence: 1 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 20 February 2023
Judge: Tatsiana Shotsik
Katsiaryna Hibkaya was arrested on October 21, 2021, as a defendant in a criminal case on terrorism and was kept in the KGB pre-trial detention center until mid-December. The charge was later changed to Art. 342 of the Criminal Code ('Organization and active participation in group actions grossly disrupting public order'). Hibkaya was transferred to remand prison #1 in Minsk.
On May 14, 2022, the Lieninsky District Court of Minsk found Katsiaryna Hibkaya guilty and sentenced her to 18 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony. The two months of remand in the KGB remand prison were not counted.
In August 2022, the political prisoner was transferred to penal colony #4 in Homieĺ.
Katsiaryna Hibkaya served her full sentence and was released on February 20, 2023.
