Uladzimir Rubasheuski

sentenced to 4 years in prison

Date of birth: 20 May 1998

Date of detention: 29 August 2020

Charges indicted:

Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Andrei Hrushko

Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Batsiushka, Andrei Manko

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Godparent: Carl-Julius Cronenberg, member of the German Bundestag

Uladzimir Rubasheuski was initially detained on August 10, 2020, and released a few days later. He was severely beaten during arrest.

The detainee was re-arrested on August 29 and remanded in a pre-trial detention center. His house was searched. Rubasheuski was charged under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (participation in riots).

On May 21, 2021, Judge Andrei Hrushko of the Lieninski District Court of Brest sentenced Rubasheuski to 4 years in a medium-security penal colony.

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

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