Lidziya Novik

released awaiting sentence commencement

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 14 January 1993

Date of detention: 3 January 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — 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: Aleh Kaliada

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Lidziya Novik was detained on December 3, 2022, in a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).

Lidziya was charged and remanded.

On April 11, 2022, a trial was held in which Judge Aleh Kaliada found Lidziya guilty and sentenced her to three years of restricted freedom in an open-type penitentiary. The woman was released awaiting the commencement of the sentence

 

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