Mikita Adzinets

sentenced to 3 years of restricted freedom

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 3 January 2001

Date of detention: 8 October 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 20 September 2024

Judge: Anastasiya Osipchyk

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Mikita Adzinets was sentenced on December 6, 2021, by the Zavodski District Court of Minsk to three years of restricted freedomin an open-type penal facility under Part 1 Article 342 of the Criminal Code (active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order) for participating in 2020 protests.

He has started to serve his sentence.

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