Mikita Litvinenka
sentenced to 5 years in prison
Prisoner
Date of birth: 3 June 1999
Date of detention: 13 September 2020
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
- Art. 411 — Malicious disobedience to the demands of administration of the correctional institution
- Part 1 of Article 13 and Article 293 of the Criminal Code — Preparation for mass riots
- Part 1 of Article 14 and Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code — Preparation for group actions that grossly violate the public order
Sentence: 4 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Viktoryia Shabunia, Aliaksandr Tarakanau
Prosecutor: Artsiom Tsviatkou
Prison: Penal colony No. 9
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Thomas Erndl, member of the German Bundestag
Mikita Litvinenka was detained on September 13, 2020 by GUBAZIK officers. He was beaten during arrest.
Initially, Mikita was imprisoned for 15 days for participating in a protest, but after servinng the term he was not released, but detained as a suspect in a criminal case of participation in riots (Part 2, Article 293 of the Criminal Code). On October 5, he was officially charged.
On July 19, 2021, Judge Viktoryia Shabunia of the Centraĺny District Court of Minsk sentenced Litvinenka to four years in a medium-security penal colony.
