Siarhei Yeudakimenka

sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 23 June 1987

Date of detention: 22 July 2023

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 7 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Andrei Siz

Prison: Penal colony No. 2

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

On July 31, 2023, the Brest Regional Court found Siarhei Yeudakimenka guilty and sentenced him to seven years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.

Yeudakimenka was charged with 'supporting incitement to other social hatred and enmity' (under Part 6 of Article 16 and Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code) for leaking police officers' data from the local land cadastre where he worked to the protesters' Telegram channels in 2020. Besides, his cell phone was seized as the "means of committing the crime". Judge Andrei Siz pronounced the sentence.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 2. 213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1

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