Mikhail Khavanski

served his term, released

Date of birth: 3 February 1986

Date of detention: 7 July 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies

Sentence: 1 year

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 30 May 2022

Mikhail Khavanski was sentenced on September 3, 2021 by the Niasviž District Court to one year in a penal colony under Art. 364 of the Criminal Code for using violence against a police officer.

He was found guilty of hitting a police officer on the back during the violent dispersal of a protest in Niasviž on August 11, 2020.

Mikhail served his sentence in full and was released from the penal colony on May 30, 2022.

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