Viachaslau Sheliamet

sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison

Prisoner

Date of birth: 18 February 2001

Date of detention: 20 August 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: 5 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Yauhen Brehan

Prison: Penal colony No. 3

Cases: Protests in Pinsk

Godparent: Sebastian Brehm, member of the German Bundestag; earlier: Frank Heinrich, member of the German Bundestag

Viachaslau Sheliamet was detained on suspicion of participating in mass riots (Article 293 of the Criminal Code). The charge related to the events of August 9, 2020.

On April 30, 2021, Judge Yauhen Brehan of the Maskoŭski District Court of Brest sentenced the defendant to 5 1/2 years in a medium-security penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 3. 211322, Viciebsk region, Vićba

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