Viktar Viarshyna

Date of detention: 27 September 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Dzina Kuchuk

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

Viktar Viarshyna was detained on September 27, 2022, as a defendant in a criminal case under Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code for 'financing an extremist formation'.

He is in a pre-trial detention center.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

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