Dzianis Sidarok

Prisoner

Date of birth: 10 June 1989

Date of detention: 10 October 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
  • Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group

Sentence: 5 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Valiantsina Ziankevich

Prison: Penal colony No. 15

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Dzianis Sidarok was detained for participating in the post-election protest actions under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code ('active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order').

He was remanded in a pre-trial detention center.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 15. 213105, Mahilioŭ, Viejna, Slaŭharadskaja šaša 183

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