Zakhar Tarazevich

sentenced to 7 1/2 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 1 June 2003

Date of detention: 1 October 2021

Charges indicted:

  • 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: 7 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Tatsiana Akavitaya

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Zakhar Tarazevich was sentenced to seven and a half years of imprisonment on charges of setting fire to the car of the State Committee for Forensic Examinations chair in a closed-door trial. Judge Tatsiana Akavitaya of the Centraĺny District Court found him guilty of ‘intentional destruction or damage to property committed in a generally dangerous manner or causing damage on a large scale’ under Article 218 of the Criminal Code.

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

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