Mikalai Bankou

sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 18 January 1971

Date of detention: 18 January 2023

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 3 November 2023

Judge: Sviatlana Bandarenka

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

Cases: Donations

Groups: Teachers

Mikalai Bankou is a former lecturer at the Communications Department of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. The department trains personnel officers for the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies of Belarus.

He was arrested on January 18, 2023. At first, he was arrested on administrative charges. Later, he was re-arrested as a defendant in a criminal case.

Bankou was charged under Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code ('Financing of extremist activities') and taken into custody. He was placed in remand prison #1 in Minsk.

 

On July 28, 2023, in the Minsk City Court, Judge Sviatlana Bandarenka sentenced Mikalai Bankou to four years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

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