Siarhei Nialepka
Date of birth: 22 September 1989
Date of detention: 15 March 2022
Charges indicted:
Part 1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Organization of riots
Art. 361 of the Criminal Code — Calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus
Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
Art. 295 of the Criminal Code — Unlawful acts against firearms, ammunition and explosives
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Art. 366 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Art. 309 of the Criminal Code — Intentional disrepair of a vehicle or communication lines
Sentence: 9 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Viktar Sianko
Prison: Penal colony No. 3
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Siarhei Nialepka was detained in March 2022, by the Grodno Region Department for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOP). In the 'repent' video, he said that he was detained for getting registered in the Peramoha plan, and for 'calling on for violence against law enforcement officers' in 'destructive chat rooms'.
In December, the KGB put Nialepka on their 'list of terrorists', therefore no money transfers can be made for him.
On November 16, 2022, the judge of the Grodno Regional Court Viktar Sianko found Nialepka guilty under Part 1 of Art. 309 ('Deliberate impairment of a vehicle or communication lines'), Part 2 of Art. 295 ('Unlawful actions in relation to firearms, ammunition, and explosives'), Art. 364 ('Violence or threat of violence against an employee of internal affairs bodies'); Part 3 of Art. 361 ('Calls for restrictive measures (sanctions) and other actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus'), Part 1 of Art. 293 (mass riots); Part 1 of Art. 368 (insulting Lukashenka), Part 1 of Art. 130 ('Inciting racial, national, religious or other social enmity'), Part 2 of Art. 366 ('Violence or threats against an official performing their official duties or another person performing their public duty'), and Art. 369 ('Insulting a government official') of the Criminal Code.
It is known that the prosecutor asked to sentence Nialepka to 16 years of imprisonment, but the judge Sianko sentenced him to nine (9) years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
