Yury Zhukouski

sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 12 August 1978

Date of detention: 20 April 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Part 1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Organization of riots
  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 8 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Dzmitryi Bubenchyk

Prison: Penal colony No. 2

Yury Zhukouski was sentenced by the Hrodna District Court to eight years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony under Part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code (organization of riots), Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code (disorderly conduct), Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred), and Part 1 of Article 368 (insulting the president) for calls on the Internet to participate in protest actions, resistance to the authorities, participation in a peaceful assembly and insulting Lukashenka.

On June 10, 2022, the KGB put Zhukouski on its list of "persons involved in terrorist activities".

Mail address: Penal colony No. 2. 213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1

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