Raman Karpuk

sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 21 December 2003

Date of detention: 16 February 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 191 of the Criminal Code — Obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Tatsiana Lauraniuk

Prosecutor: Pavel Krupenich

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Raman Karpuk

Raman Karpuk was arrested on February 16, 2022, in a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code (Obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights, the right to participate in a referendum). The case was brought for distributing and mailing leaflets with an appeal to count votes honestly.

Raman is being held in Pre-trial detention center of KGB.

On August 19, 2022, the Maskoŭski District Court of Brest pronounced the verdict against an 18-year-old political prisoner. Judge Tatsiana Lauraniuk sentenced him to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony, as it was requested by prosecutor Pavel Krupenich.

Student gets 3 years in jail for sending letters to election officials

On August 19, the Maskoŭski District Court of Brest pronounced the verdict against 18-year-old political prisoner Raman Karpuk.

 

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

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