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 — 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 Karabko

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.

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