Mikalai Kazlou
UCP leader, sentenced to 2 1/2 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 5 January 1967
Date of detention: 27 July 2022
Charges indicted:
Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Art. 407: Disclosure of the data of the inquiry, preliminary investigation or closed court session
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Anastasiya Kulik
Prosecutor: Ina Zubko
Prison: Prison No. 4
Mikalai Kazlou was sentenced to 3 months in prison on August 6, 2021, for disclosing investigation information on the Coordination Council case.
On December 28, 2021, Mikalai began serving his term.
Mikalai served his sentence in full and was released on March 26, 2022.
He was detained again on July 27, 2022. It soon became known that a criminal case was opened against him under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code.
On November 3, 2022, the Pieršamajski District Court of Minsk finished considering the criminal case against the opposition United Civic Party leaders: Aksana Aliakseyeva, Mikalai Kazlou, and Antanina Kavaliova. Kazlou was sentenced to two and a half years of imprisonment.
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