Maryna Kisialevich

activist

Date of detention: 7 February 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")

Prison sentence start date: 19 August 2022

Judge: Aliaksandr Rudenka

Prison: Open correctional facility No. 1

Maryna Kisialevich is an activist with the Mothers-328 movement. She was taken into custody on charges under Art. 367 of the Criminal Code for slandering the president. The woman was kept in the Scientific And Practical Center For Mental Health in Navinki for a long time, then she was transferred to pre-trial detention center.

On May 12, 2022, Kastryčnicki District Court of Minsk Maryna Kisialevich was sentenced to four years in an open-type correctional facility. The case was considered by Judge Aliaksandr Rudenka. After the verdict was pronounced, the political prisoner was released in the courtroom.

Maryna's son was sentenced in 2017 to 13 years in prison.

Mail address: Open correctional facility No. 1. 224025, Brest, Belarusskaya str., 84a

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