Tamaz Pipiya
football fan, sentenced to 5 years in prison
Political prisoner
Date of birth: 10 July 1994
Date of detention: 26 September 2020
Charges indicted:
- Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots
- Art. 411 — Malicious disobedience to the demands of administration of the correctional institution
Sentence: 6 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Sviatlana Bandarenka, Tatsiana Khrypach
Prosecutor: Raman Biziuk, Fiodar Sinitski
Prison: Penal colony No. 20
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Tamaz Pipiya, a football fan of the MTZ-RIPA club, was detained on September 26, 2020 in Hrodna on suspicion of organizing riots on September 23, after the secret inauguration of Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
He was in the status of a suspect under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code.
On July 2, 2021, Tamaz was sentenced to 5 years in a medium-security penal colony by the Maskoŭski District Court of Minsk.
