Siarhei Nialepka

Prisoner

Date of birth: 22 September 1989

Date of detention: 15 March 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Part 1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Organization of riots
  • Art. 361 of the Criminal Code — Calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 295 of the Criminal Code — Unlawful acts against firearms, ammunition and explosives
  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
  • 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
  • Art. 309 of the Criminal Code — Intentional disrepair of a vehicle or communication lines

Sentence: 9 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Viktar Sianko

Prison: Penal colony No. 3

Cases: Protests in Hrodna, Rail sabotage

On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)

Siarhei Nialepka was detained in March 2022, by the Grodno Region Department for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOP). In the 'repent' video, he said that he was detained for getting registered in the Peramoha plan, and for 'calling on for violence against law enforcement officers' in 'destructive chat rooms'.

In December, the KGB put Nialepka on their 'list of terrorists', therefore no money transfers can be made for him.

On November 16, 2022, the judge of the Grodno Regional Court Viktar Sianko found Nialepka guilty under Part 1 of Art. 309 ('Deliberate impairment of a vehicle or communication lines'), Part 2 of Art. 295 ('Unlawful actions in relation to firearms, ammunition, and explosives'), Art. 364 ('Violence or threat of violence against an employee of internal affairs bodies'); Part 3 of Art. 361 ('Calls for restrictive measures (sanctions) and other actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus'), Part 1 of Art. 293 (mass riots); Part 1 of Art. 368 (insulting Lukashenka), Part 1 of Art. 130 ('Inciting racial, national, religious or other social enmity'), Part 2 of Art. 366 ('Violence or threats against an official performing their official duties or another person performing their public duty'), and Art. 369 ('Insulting a government official') of the Criminal Code.

It is known that the prosecutor asked to sentence Nialepka to 16 years of imprisonment, but the judge Sianko sentenced him to nine (9) years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 3. 211322, Viciebsk region, Vićba

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