Siarhei Tratsiuk
sentenced to 4 years in prison
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 28 November 1984
Date of detention: 24 March 2021
Charges indicted:
- Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots
Sentence: 4 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a high security prison
Date of release: 20 October 2024
Judge: Aliaksandr Semianchuk, Vasil Aurusevich
Prosecutor: Fiodar Liashok, Andrei Manko
Notes: Prison security level
Cases: Protests in Brest
Siarhei Tratsiuk lives in Brest. Before the arrest, he worked as a turner. He loves metalworking and designing and has a mathematical mindset. He raises a 12-year-old daughter.
Tratsiuk became a defendant in a criminal case initiated under Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code ('Participation in riots') after the protests in Brest in August 2020.
On November 8, 2021, the Lieninsky District Court of Brest announced the verdict for one-fifth of the defendants in the case of “mass riots” in Brest during the events of August 9-10, 2020. Judge Aliaksandr Semianchuk found guilty all the 19 political prisoners involved in the case and sentenced Siarhei Tratsiuk to four years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.
Since late March 2021, Siarhei Tratsiuk was in custody in remand prison #7 in Brest. On January 19, 2022, he was transferred to penal colony #22 in Brest region.
On July 7, 2023, the trial took place to change the security level of his imprisonment. By the decision of Judge Vasil Aurusevich, Siarhei was transferred to the prison security level in Mahilioŭ prison No. 4 before serving his sentence in full.
