Pavel Yarash

Date of birth: 27 September 1997

Date of detention: 28 July 2023

Charges indicted:

Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 2 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 12 January 2024

Judge: Tatsiana Falkouskaya

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

On the list of “terrorists” (money transfers are prohibited)

Pavel Yarash was convicted by the Minsk City Court under Part 2 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code. On November 1 and 2, 2023, Judge Tatsiana Falkouskaya sentenced Yarash to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment.

He was transferred to penal colony No. 1.

 
Mail address: Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

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