Zakhar Tarazevich
sentenced to 7 1/2 years of imprisonment
Prisoner
Date of birth: 1 June 2003
Date of detention: 1 October 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 218 of the Criminal Code — Intentional destruction or damage to property committed in a generally dangerous manner or causing damage on a large scale
Sentence: 7 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Tatsiana Akavitaya
Prison: Penal colony No. 17
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Zakhar Tarazevich was sentenced to seven and a half years of imprisonment on charges of setting fire to the car of the State Committee for Forensic Examinations chair in a closed-door trial. Judge Tatsiana Akavitaya of the Centraĺny District Court found him guilty of ‘intentional destruction or damage to property committed in a generally dangerous manner or causing damage on a large scale’ under Article 218 of the Criminal Code.