Andrej Miraniuk

A citizen of Ukraine, participant of the Chernobyl Path in 1996, an annual demonstration that takes place in commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Born in 1975, comes from Taman.

Chronicle of repression 

Andrej Miraniuk was detained by militia officers in plain clothes in the center of Minsk on 26 April 1996, during the Chernobyl Path. During the march, the militia did not allow people to walk on the main street of the Belarusian capital, which on several occasions lead to fights between the participants of the march and officers. He was kept in the Minsk detention center (the Volodarka prison). At the end of August 1996 the Minsk court sentenced him to a one year of imprisonment in a penal colony. Grigory Kozyricky was a judge in his case, Sergei Telezevich served as a persecutor. He was released on amnesty on 24 December 1996, along with several other citizens of Ukraine, who were convicted in the same case.

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