Yauhen Kharashkevich
sentenced to 4 years in prison
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 8 August 1994
Date of detention: 18 January 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. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 4 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a high security prison
Date of release: 17 August 2024
Judge: Andrei Preis
Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Filimonau
Notes: Prison security level
Yauhen Kharashkevich, a resident of Navapolack, was charged under three articles of the Criminal Code:
- Part 1 of Art. 130 (incitement to hatred);
- Article 369 (insulting a government official);
- Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code (organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order).
He was sentenced to four years' imprisonment in a general security penal colony. While Yauhen was in pre-trial detention, his daughter Milana was born.
In mid-December 2021 it became known that Yauhen had been transferred to Šklou penal colony No. 17.
It is known that in August 2022 Yauhen was transferred to Hrodna Prison No. 1.
