Siarhei Piatrukhin

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 10 May 1971

Date of detention: 16 June 2020

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 391 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a judge

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 17 December 2022

Judge: Volha Krauchanka

Prosecutor: Tatsiana Amosava

Groups: Activists, Bloggers

Godparent: Omid Nouripour, member of the German Bundestag

Siarhei Piatrukhin is a blogger based in Brest, author of the YouTube channels "Narodnyi Reportyor" ("People's Reporter") and "YouTube Deputaty" ("YouTube MPs").

On June 16, 2020, he was detained in the Puchavičy district nera Minsk and taken to the Kobryn pre-trial detention center. On June 25, Piatrukhin was taken to a temporary detention center in Minsk. It became known that he was detained as part of a criminal case under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (organization and preparation for actions that grossly violate public order), related to the events on May 29 in Hrodna.

On April 14, 2021, Judge Volha Krauchanka of the Kastryčnicki District Court of Mahilioŭ sentenced Piatrukhin to three years in a general-security penal colony, finding him guilty of organizing group actions that grossly violated public order (Article 342 of the Criminal Code), insulting a government official (Article 369 of the Criminal Code) and insulting a judge of the Brest Regional Court (Article 391 of the Criminal Code).

The political prisoner served his term in full and was released on December 17, 2022.

 

 

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