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
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
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.