Maksim Mychko

served full term, released

Date of birth: 1 February 1995

Date of detention: 7 September 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 370 of the Criminal Code β€” Desecration of state symbols

Sentence: 1 year

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 23 June 2022

Judge: Siarhei Salouski

Maksim Mychko was sentenced to 1 year of imprisonment under Art. 370 of the Criminal Code (Desecration of state symbols).

On August 29, 2021, the accused in this case Maksim Mychko, Yana Mileuskaya and Aliaksandr Bendz, while being drunk, tore down the state flag in the street, which Mychko then threw on the sidewalk. The accused were identified using CCTV cameras.

Maksim served his sentence in full and was released on 23 June 2022.

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