Persecuted for political reasonsProbation

Dzianis Henadzevich Yarashenka

Denis was found guilty in June 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left about Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer at the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs. Volnich, who had used a knee chokehold on a detained participant during the dispersal of a solidarity chain, was holding him in a chokehold.

Sentences

Trial outcome 25.06.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.

Involved in repression

Dmitry Satsuk
Dmitry Satsuk
State prosecutors17 october 2026
Place:
The Court of Baranovichi District and the city of Baranovichi
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
25.06.2021
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Juliana Viktorovna Shcherba
Juliana Viktorovna Shcherba
Judges1 march 1983
Place:
The Court of Baranovichi District and the city of Baranovichi
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
25.06.2021
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Ihar Mikalayevich Volnich
Ihar Mikalayevich Volnich
Others5 june 1994
Type:
Other
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Dzianis Henadzevich Yarashenka
Hometown:
Baranovichi
Birthday:
02.08.1989
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Timeline

  1. 2021
  2. 25.06.2021

    Trial outcome 25.06.2021

    2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation, The Court of Baranovichi District and the city of Baranovichi

  3. 25.06.2021

    Status change

    Probation