Valery Melnichuk

Date of birth: 17 November 1992

Date of detention: 2 March 2021

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 4 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Dzmitryi Shuryn

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Valery Melnichuk is a resident of Brest involved in a criminal case opened under Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (participation in riots) after the post-election protests of August, 2020.

Valery was released on bail, but detained on March 2, 2021, after he went to the police department.

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

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