Mikhail Listapadau

sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 28 September 1971

Date of detention: 11 August 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
  • Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code — Participation or preparing to participate in hostilities on foreign soil by a Republic of Belarus citizen

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Aliaksei Khlyshchankou

Prison: Penal colony No. 15

Notes: War in Ukraine

Mikhail Listapadau was convicted of ‘attempted participation in hostilities on foreign soil’ for joining the defenders of sovereign Ukraine under Part 1 of Article 14 and Part 1 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code and of ‘participation in group actions that grossly violated the public order’ for attending a peaceful assembly under Article 342 of the Criminal Code and sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 15. 213105, Mahilioŭ, Viejna, Slaŭharadskaja šaša 183

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