Siarhei Kudrytski

Date of birth: 30 August 1981

Date of detention: 24 June 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Part 1 of Art. 328 of the Criminal Code — Illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs without the purpose of sale

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Viktoryia Shabunia

Siarhei Kudrytski worked as a sales specialist. He was arrested on June 24, 2022 and placed in custody pending trial. His wife Marharyta Kudrytskaya was detained and convicted together with him.

However, at the court session it became known that Kudrytski was also detained on June 9, 2020, and a bag of marijuana was allegedly found in his things then. Thus, the charge under Article 328 was considered simultaneously.

On September 19, 2022, the Centraĺny District Court of Minsk sentenced Kudrytski to three years of freedom restriction under home confinement under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code; and to two years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony under Part 1 of Art. 328 ('Illegal acquisition and possession of narcotic drugs without intent to sell'). The final sentence is two years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. The case was tried by the judge Viktoryia Shabunia.

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