Yahor Mikhailau

sentenced to 10 years in prison

Prisoner

Date of birth: 7 December 1994

Date of detention: 13 February 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
  • Art. 289 of the Criminal Code — An act of terrorism

Sentence: 10 years and 6 months

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Alena Bushava, Natallia Dziadkova

Prosecutor: Dzmitryi Khavauka

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Cases: The case of Civil Self-Defense Units of Belarus

On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)

Yahor Mikhailau was sentenced on July 26, 2021 by the Frunzienski District Court of Minsk to ten years in prison under Part 1 of Art. 289 of the Criminal Code (act of terrorism). He was accused of setting fire to a tank at a railway station near Minsk. State media said the video of the arson was fake, and the Ministry of Defense showed this tank undamaged.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8

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