Siarhei Sakavets
power engineer, sentenced to 4 years in jail
Prisoner
Date of birth: 17 October 1992
Date of detention: 1 October 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. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 4 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Tatsiana Pirozhnikava
Prison: Penal colony No. 15
Groups: Bloggers
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Ivan Štefanec, member of the European Parliament
Siarhei Sakavets was arrested on September 21, 2021. He was initially sentenced to 10 days of administrative imprisonment but was never released, facing criminal charges under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (organization or active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order).
On May 20, 2022, the trial against Siarhei started at Maskoŭski District Court of Minsk. On May 24, 2022, JudgeTatsiana Pirozhnikava sentenced him to four years in a general-security penal colony. The political prisoner pleaded not guilty at the trial and said he had been beaten during his detention.
