Vitaliya Bandarenka
sentenced to 4 years in prison
Prisoner
Date of birth: 5 June 2002
Date of detention: 1 March 2021
Charges indicted:
- Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots
Sentence: 4 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Andrei Hrushko
Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Batsiushka, Andrei Manko
Prison: Penal colony No. 4
Notes: Detention upon return to Belarus
Cases: Protests in Brest
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Gabriele Bischoff, member of the European Parliament
Vitaliya Bandarenka is a resident of Brest convicted of participation in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code). The charge stems from the events of August 10, 2020, in Brest.
Bandarenka was to be tried in mid-February 2021, together with nine other people involved in the case, but she went abroad before the trial. Shortly before the verdict was announced, on February 27, she returned to Belarus, and on March 1, she was arrested again. Bandarenka was remanded in remand prison #7 in Brest.
On May 21, 2021, Judge Andrei Hrushko of the Lieninski District Court of Brest sentenced Bandarenka to 4 years in a general-security penal colony.
Vitaliya Bandarenka is serving her sentence in women's penal colony #4 in Homieĺ. In August 2022, she got married there.
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