Meryem Herasimenka
singer, sentenced to 3 years under home confinement, released
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 23 January 1994
Date of detention: 4 August 2022
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 under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")
Judge: Viktoryia Shabunia, Tatsiana Akavitaya
Groups: Cultural workers
Notes: Trials in absentia, War in Ukraine
Meryem Herasimenka, a singer, was detained after she had performed a Ukrainian song in one of the Minsk bars. She was twice sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest, and then re-arrested as a defendant in a criminal case under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (‘Active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order’).
On January 20, 2023, the Centraĺny District Court of Minsk delivered a verdict: Judge Viktoryia Shabunia sentenced Herasimenka to three years of restricted freedom without referral to a penal facility (under home confinement).
