Vital Maksimchuk

Prisoner

Date of birth: 14 September 1983

Date of detention: 18 October 2023

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
  • Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code — Creation of an extremist formation, or participation in it
  • Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities

Sentence: 5 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Dzmitryi Kurouski

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Notes: Parents of three or more children

Vital Maksimchuk was arrested on October 18, 2023, allegedly for being an administrator of the chat room Salidarnasc Ivacevichy in 2020. Vital has three children.

Vital is being held in pre-trial detention center.

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

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