Mikalai Karobka
sentenced to 2 1/2 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 10 February 1987
Date of detention: 19 February 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 191 of the Criminal Code β Obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 21 March 2024
Judge: Anzhela Kastsiukevich
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Mikalai Karobka was arrested while crossing the border and accused under Part 2 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code (Obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights, the right to participate in a referendum). The case was brought for distributing and mailing leaflets with an appeal to count votes honestly.
Mikalai is being held in Pre-trial detention center of KGB.
On September 13, 2022, the Zavodzki District Court of Minsk started hearing the case of a political prisoner. On September 23, Karobka was sentenced to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.