Viktar Sachkouski

Prisoner

Date of birth: 2 December 1989

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Katsiaryna Hruda

Notes: War in Ukraine

Viktar Sachkouski was accused of filming military planes on February 27, 2022, and sending the video to an extremist group.

The trial took place at Brest Regional Court in the building of Brest pre-trial detention center No. 7.

On March 11, 2024, Judge Katsiaryna Hruda sentenced him to two years in a general-security penal colony and ordered the confiscation of his phone as a means of committing the crime.

 

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