Persecuted for political reasonsProbation

Siarhei Kuzniatsou

Sergei was found guilty in October 2020 of "resisting a police officer or other person maintaining public order." The pensioner was accused of threatening riot police with a knife when they broke down his apartment door after he called the police and asked them to prosecute Lukashenko for insulting Viktor Babaryka. Sergei was shot in the chest with a pump-action shotgun for this.

Sentences

Trial outcome 19.10.2020
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.

Involved in repression

Elena Vyacheslavovna Kaptsevich
Elena Vyacheslavovna Kaptsevich
Judges11 june 1978
Place:
court of Zavodskoy district of Minsk
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
19.10.2020
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Siarhei Kuzniatsou
Case categories:
Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown:
Minsk
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Retirees

Timeline

  1. 2020
  2. 19.10.2020

    Trial outcome 19.10.2020

    1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, court of Zavodskoy district of Minsk

  3. 19.10.2020

    Status change

    Probation