Maksim Filipavets

Date of birth: 16 April 1991

Date of detention: 30 September 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 130 of the Criminal Code β€” Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 13 March 2023

Judge: Alena Shylko

Maksim Filipavets was detained for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.

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