Aliaksei Kamarouski

sentenced to 4 years imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of detention: 23 December 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 365 of the Criminal Code — Interference in the activities of a police officer

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony

Judge: Alena Zhukovich

Prison: Penal colony No. 20

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Aliaksei Kamarouski was convicted under Article 364 (Use of violence or threat thereof against an internal affairs officer) and Article 365 (Disrupting the work of an internal affairs officer) of the Criminal Code for attempting to escape violent policemen on 10 August 2020, by maneuvering in a vehicle, which was deemed a threat to an internal affairs officer.

The trial began on February 9, 2023. On February 17, 2023, in the Saviecki District Court of Minsk, Judge Alena Zhukovich sentenced Aliaksei Kamarouski to four years of imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony and compensation of moral damages to the policeman in the amount of 3,000 Belarusian rubles.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 20. 247755, Homieĺ region, Mazyr district, Michalkoŭski sieĺsaviet, 70

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