Pavel Lukayanau

sentenced to 4 years in prison

Date of birth: 22 July 1994

Date of detention: 23 June 2021

Charges indicted:

Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Dzmitryi Karsiuk

Prosecutor: Artsiom Tsviatkou

Prison: Penal colony No. 22

Pavel Lukayanau

Pavel Lukayanau is a resident of Minsk arrested on June 23, 2021 in a criminal case of "participation in riots" (Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code).

The charges stem form the post-election protests of August 2020.

Lukayanau was later charged and placed in pre-trial prison.

On October 1, 2021, Pavel Lukayanau was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 22. 225295, Brest region, Ivacevičy, station Damanava, PO Box 20

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