Yauhen Petrachenka
welder, football fan, sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 19 September 2000
Date of detention: 10 August 2020
Charges indicted:
- Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
Sentence: 3 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a high security prison
Date of release: 2 February 2024
Judge: Viktoryia Paliakova
Groups: Employees
Yauhen Petrachenka is a football fan from Barysaŭ. He works as a welder at a local precast concrete factory.
On the night of August 9-10, during a post-election protest, he pushed a turnstile at a police officer, injuring his leg and face. The boy was detained the next day, when he was hit on the head with a truncheon so that he lost consciousness.
Yauhen was sentenced under Article 364 of the Criminal Code (Violence or threat of violence against a police officer) to three and a half years in a general-security penal colony.
On May 26, 2023, the man was tried under Part 1 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of the correctional facility). The case was considered by Judge Victoryia Paliakova.
He was to be released in early February 2024, as in January Yauhen was placed under preventive supervision.
