Dzianis Nasura

lead business analyst, sentenced to 3 years of home confinement

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 21 February 1974

Date of detention: 9 December 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: restricted freedom under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")

Groups: IT specialists, Scientists

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Dzianis Nasura is a lead business analyst at EPAM.

He was detained on December 9, 2021. He was sentenced to 13 days of administrative imprisonment for distributing “extremist materials”, but he was never released at the end of his sentence.

It became known that the man was placed in pre-trial detention center on charges of participation in group actions grossly violating public order (Art. 342 of the Criminal Code).

At the end of March 2022, the investigation into the case of Dzianis Nasura was completed and the files were transferred to the prosecutor's office. On April 18, the court found him guilty and sentenced him to three years of restricted freedom under home confinement.

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