Mikhail Hromau
trade union activist, sentenced to 2 1/2 years under home confinement
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 1 August 1986
Date of detention: 19 April 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: restricted freedom under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")
Judge: Sviatlana Charapovich
Cases: The case of labor unions
Mikhail Hromau is a former deputy chairman of the Belarusian Radio-Electrical Manufacturing Workers' Trade Union (REM). He was arrested on April 19, 2022. Mikhail was charged and placed in pre-trial detention center. According to preliminary information, he was charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (group actions that grossly violate the public order).
On November 25, Judge Sviatlana Charapovich of the Pieršamajski District Court of Minsk sentenced the political prisoner to two and a half years of restricted freedom under home confinement.
