Mikalai Maliuta

sentenced to 3 years in prison

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 18 July 1991

Date of detention: 29 March 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Date of release: 30 December 2023

Judge: Ina Klyshpach

Prosecutor: Vadzim Bahatka, Darya Zhuk

Cases: Protests in Brest

Godparent: Volker Ullrich, Member of the German Bundestag

Mikalai Maliuta is a resident of Brest, a historian by education, working as a construction worker. He is a defendant in a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (participation in riots) opened after protests in the city in August 2020.

Maliuta was detained on March 29, 2021. Three days later he was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 7.

The day after his arrest, his second child was born.

On August 20, 2021, the Maskoŭski District Court of Brest sentenced him to 3 years in a medium-security penal colony.

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