Daniil Dzitkouski

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 22 January 2002

Date of detention: 11 December 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Part 2 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code — Hooliganism committed by a group of persons

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")

Prison sentence start date: 11 December 2021

Date of release: 4 December 2023

Judge: Dzmitryi Kurouski

Cases: The round dance case

Daniil Dzitkouski was charged in the frames of the "dancing protest" case. On September 13, 2020 demonstrators gathered in the central intersection of Brest, they sang songs and danced in circles  until a water cannon arrived and security forces began to detain the protesters.

On August 30, 2021, judge Dzmitry Kurouski sentenced Daniil to two years of "khimiya" under Part 2 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code ("Hooliganism") for damaging two CCTV cameras and spraying cynical graffiti messages.

On December 11, 2021, he began to serve his term in the open penitentiary No. 43.

According to human rights defenders, he was scheduled to be released from prison on December 4, 2023.

More political prisoners convicted in Brest

The Lieninski District Court of Brest announced its verdict in another trial involving participants in a September 2020 demonstration dubbed as a “dancing protest” by domestic media, sentencing fourteen more defendants, including three political prisoners, to various terms of restricted freedom (imprisonment in open penitentiaries).

 

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