Sviatlana Kalenchyts

lead customer service specialist, sentenced to 3 years under home confinement

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 24 May 1982

Date of detention: 23 December 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: restricted freedom under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")

Judge: Alena Zhukovich

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Sviatlana Kalenchyts is a lead customer service specialist at A1.

She was detained on December 23, 2021. It is known that Svetlana was charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (Organization or active participation in group actions grossly violating public order). The woman was transferred to pre-trial detention center.

On March 11, 2022, the case was considered in court. On March 12, the court foundSviatlana guilty of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code and sentenced her to three years of freedom restriction under home confinement and imposed a fine. 

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