Mikhail Miakeka
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
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
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.
