Maksim Kruk
production designer, sentenced to three years, left Belarus
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 16 November 1984
Date of detention: 2 September 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: 3 years
Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")
Judge: Maryna Klimchuk
Groups: Cultural workers
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Maksim Kruk is a set designer collaborating with the cultural center Korpus.
Kruk was detained on September 2, 2021, after a police raid on the Korpus art space. After 10 days of administrative imprisonment, he was not released but was arrested as part of a criminal case under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (group actions grossly violating public order). The charge stems from his involvement in the August 2020 protests.
On December 17, Maryna Klimchuk sentenced Maksim Kruk to 3 years of restricted freedom in an open penitentiary under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order or active participation in them).
At the beginning of February Maksim and Aliaksandr Bahdanau have left Belarus.
