Viktoryia Navitskaya

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 7 January 1990

Date of detention: 25 May 2022

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 1 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Yuliya Shchotkina

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Notes: War in Ukraine

Viktoryia Navitskaya was detained on June 21, 2022. After two administrative arrests, she was not released but was re-detained on criminal charges under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (group actions grossly violating public order).

She is being held in a pre-trial detention center.

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