Kanstantsin Yarshou

fitness trainer, released awating sentence commencement

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 5 June 1988

Date of detention: 24 January 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code β€” Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")

Judge: Tatsiana Pirozhnikava

Groups: Athletes

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Kanstantsin Yarshou

Kanstantsin Yarshou is a fitness and bodybuilding trainer from Minsk. He was arrested on January 24, 2022, in a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).

He has been charged and transferred to pre-trial detention center.

On June 8, 2022, a Judge of Maskouski district of Minsk Tatsiana Pirozhnikava  found Kanstantsin guilty and sentenced him to three years of restricted freedom in an open-type penitentiary. The man was released in the courtroom awaiting the commencement of the sentence.

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