Valiantsin Samasiuk
sentenced to imprisonment
Date of birth: 5 November 1992
Date of detention: 31 March 2022
Charges indicted:
Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Natallia Shestak
Valiantsin Samasiuk from Baranavičy worked for the railroad. He was detained on March 31, 2022, on charges of facilitating extremism under Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code—from March 15 to March 22, 2022, the man sent several photos of railroad machinery with his comments in a Telegram chat that was recognized as an extremist formation.
Human rights defenders know that Samasiuk was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment, but further details are not known.
