Siarhei Plonis

Prisoner

Date of birth: 14 June 1973

Date of detention: 2 October 2020

Charges indicted:

  • Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in riots
  • 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

Sentence: 8 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Dzmitryi Astapenka

Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Ramanovich

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Cases: "Chat case"

Godparent: François Pointet, Member of the Swiss National Council

Siarhei Plonis was detained on October 2, 2020 in Minsk on rioting charges (Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code).

Palonis was later officially charged.

On July 19, 2021, Judge Dzmitry Astapenka sentenced Plonis to eight years in a medium-security penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8

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