Mikalai Danish

Date of birth: 10 December 1959

Date of detention: 20 October 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 8 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Tatsiana Falkouskaya

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