Anton Lysau

sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 2 June 1999

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: 10 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 1 March 2023

Date of release: 11 November 2023

Judge: Tatsiana Akavitaya

Notes: Foreign citizens, War in Ukraine

Anton Lysau was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony 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.

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