Maryia Nestserava
sentenced to 3 years in prison
Date of birth: 12 September 1966
Date of detention: 23 October 2020
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: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Alena Kaptsevich
Prosecutor: Veranika Zubik
Prison: Penal colony No. 4
Maryia Nestserava was detained by GUBAZIK officers on October 23, 2020. She was charged under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (participation in mass riots in Minsk).
On June 4, 2021, Maryia Nestserava was sentenced to three years in a general-security penal colony, after Judge Alena Kaptsevich of the Zavodski District Court of Minsk found her of “active participation in group actions that grossly violated public order and were combined with obvious disobedience to the lawful demands of the authorities.”