Siarhei Rymsha
sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 1 July 1988
Date of detention: 21 January 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
- Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
Sentence: 3 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a high security prison
Date of release: 29 May 2024
Judge: Yury Kazakevich
Prosecutor: Mikita Myslivets
Notes: Prison security level
Cases: Protests in Hrodna
Siarhei Rymsha, a resident of Hrodna, was detained during a protest on August 9. According to the case file, he threw a stone at a police minibus. During the detention, he was beaten. Rymsha denied the fact that it was he who threw the stone into the van.
The trial lasted more than two months. On January 21, 2021, the Lieninski District Court of Hrodna sentenced Siarhei Rymsha to three and a half years in a general-security penal colony.
Siarhei was in Šklou prison No. 17. Since November 2021 he has been transferred to the prison regime for three years, which he serves in Žodzina prison No. 8.
