Andrei Byalyauski sentenced to 12 months of home penal labour

One year of penal labour without imprisonment – this is the sentence pronounced to designer Andrei Byalyauski in Minsk Lenin District Court on January 12. He stood trial because of a service cartridge found by policemen during a search in his flat. 

Byalyauski was detained during the investigation of ‘the White Legion case’ in March 2017 and spent 2.5 months in jail. A cartridge he was keeping as a souvenir was found in his flat during a search. 

Byalyauski plead guilty in court in January 11.