Pavel Linkevich

sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 8 September 1986

Date of detention: 5 May 2022

Charges indicted:

  • p. 5 of Part 2 of Art. 147 of the Criminal Code — Serious bodily injury deliberately caused to a person in connection with this person's official duties

Sentence: 7 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 15 May 2023

Judge: Mikalai Kmita

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Cases: Protests in Baranavičy

Pavel Linkevich was convicted of ‘intentionally causing serious bodily injury to a person in connection with this person's official duties’ for carelessly running over the foot of an internal affairs officer while escaping from arbitrary detention and driving in reverse.

Linkevich was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment under Part 2 of Article 147 of the Criminal Code.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8

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