Mikhail Miakeka
Prisoner
Date of birth: 15 April 1993
Date of detention: 9 December 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
- Art. 366 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
- Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 6 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Viktar Sianko
Notes: Detention upon return to Belarus
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)
Mikhail Miakeka lived and worked in Poland. At the end of November 2022, Mikhail was detained when he returned to Belarus.
He was charged with a number of protest articles:
- Incitement to hatred (Part 1 and Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code),
- Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them (Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code),
- Violence or threat against an official performing official duties (Part 2 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code),
- Slander against Aliaksandr Lukashenka (Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code).
On August 9, 2023, Judge Viktar Sianko sentenced Mikhail Miakeka to six years in a medium-security penal colony.
