Siarhei Savich

sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment

Date of birth: 13 July 1977

Date of detention: 2 August 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 13 March 2023

Judge: Valiantsina Kunitskaya

Prosecutor: Aliaksei Yaroshyk

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

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

Siarhei Savich from Pinsk was detained on August 2, 2022. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail for sharing a message from an “extremist” Telegram channel.

After administrative detention,  Savich was not released as he was charged with “inciting social hatred” (Art. 130 of the CC). Later he was also accused of “calls for sanctions and other actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus” (part 3 of Art. 361 of the CC).

He was placed in pre-trial detention.

On November 28, 2022, Savich was found guilty under Article 130 of the Criminal Code for a comment he had posted in a local chatroom. The prosecution claimed that in this comment, the man called for violence against police officers. Judge Valiantsina Kunitskaya agreed with the penalty requested by the state prosecutor Aliaksei Yaroshyk and sentenced the political prisoner to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8

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