Viktar Labko

served to 2 years of restricted freedom

Date of birth: 18 May 1986

Date of detention: 1 August 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")

Prison sentence start date: 1 August 2021

Date of release: 1 August 2023

Judge: Ina Klyshpach

Viktar Labko was a defendant in the "round dance protest case" started after the events of September 13, 2020, in Brest, when the police dispersed the protesters dancing at the crossroads with a water cannon.

On May 7, 2021, the Maskoŭski District Court of Brest convicted 14 more defendants in the "round dance protest case". Judge Ina Klyshpach found all of the defendants guilty and sentenced them to home confinement or imprisonment. Viktar Labko was sentenced to 24 months of freedom restriction with a referral to an open-type penal facility.

He began serving his sentence on August 1, 2021.

In early August 2023, the political prisoner was released from open-type penal facility #49 in Asipovičy, Mahilioŭ region, having served his full sentence.

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