Viktar Yaromenka

sentenced to 5 years imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 22 March 1981

Date of detention: 14 February 2023

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
  • Art. 411 — Malicious disobedience to the demands of administration of the correctional institution

Sentence: 5 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony

Judge: Ruslan Tsaruk

Prison: Penal colony No. 14

Viktar Yaromenka is from Homieĺ. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment.

On May 10, 2023, the Homieĺ Regional Court, in a closed court session, convicted Viktar Yaromenka of 'inciting other social hatred or enmity' under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code, and of other crimes.

The trial began on April 21, 2023, and was led by Judge Ruslan Tsaruk. The circumstances of the case, apart from the verdict, are still unknown to human rights defenders.

The final sentence is five years of imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 14. 222125, Minsk region, Barysaŭ district, s.n.p. Navasady, vulica Miru 1a

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