Maksim Shatokhin
minor, sentenced to 3 years under home confinement
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 23 April 2004
Date of detention: 19 July 2021
Charges indicted:
- Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a juvenile penal colony
Date of release: 20 September 2022
Judge: Sviataslau Kalina
Prosecutor: Aliaksei Baranouski, Alena Sharko
Cases: Protests in Brest
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Moritz Körner, member of the European Parliament
Maksim Shatokhin is an under-aged resident of Brest, a defendant in a criminal case of mass riots (Part 2, Article 293 of the Criminal Code) opened after the post-election protests of August 2020.
Prior to the trial, he was free but under travel restrictions. On the first day of the trial, July 19, Shatokhin was taken into custody and remanded in a pre-trial detention center.
On August 12, 2021, Judge Sviataslau Kalina of the Lieninski District Court of Brest sentenced him to three years in prison.
On September 20, 2022, Maksim was transferred from the correctional facility to home confinement.
