Mikalai Saseu

Prisoner

Date of birth: 16 July 1995

Date of detention: 13 August 2020

Charges indicted:

  • Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots
  • Part 3 of Art. 293 of the Criminal code — Training or other preparation of persons for participation in mass riots, or financing of this activity

Sentence: 5 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Sviatlana Bandarenka

Prosecutor: Raman Biziuk

Prison: Penal colony No. 15

Groups: Cultural workers, Teachers

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Mikalai Saseu was detained on the night of August 12 together with Uladzislau Karetski as part of the "rioting case". Saseu was later charged under Art. 293 of the Criminal Code.

He was held in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Minsk.

On June 10, 2021, Judge Sviatlana Bandarenka of the Maskoŭski District Court of Minsk sentenced Saseu to five years in a medium-security penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 15. 213105, Mahilioŭ, Viejna, Slaŭharadskaja šaša 183

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