Maksim Zuyeu

Date of birth: 7 January 1980

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 218 of the Criminal Code — Intentional destruction or damage to property committed in a generally dangerous manner or causing damage on a large scale
  • Art. 366 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty
  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 10 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Dzina Kuchuk

Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Karol

Notes: Trials in absentia

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