Liudmila Kirylenka
sentenced to 1 1/2 years
Date of birth: 20 February 1986
Date of detention: 19 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: 1 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 15 May 2023
Judge: Yauhen Yerafeyeu
Liudmila Kirylenka from Rahačoŭ was detained on January 19, 2022, in a criminal case brought after the protests in Žlobin in August 2020. Her home was searched, and she was taken to the Žlobin Investigative Committee for questioning, and then placed in pre-trial detention center.
A few days later she was transferred to Homiel and charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (Group actions grossly violating public order).
On April 22, 2022, the Žlobin district court sentenced Liudmila to 18 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
