Maksim Yakaulevich Mikhovich

Number of repressed:

2

Birthday:

25 november 1974

Brest Regional Executive Committee Department of Internal Affairs. Commander of a special police unit. Accomplice in the violent suppression of peaceful protests, using physical violence against participants. He acted as a victim in a criminal case brought for reposting a post in a Brest Telegram chat containing information about Mikhovich. The essence of the statement, considered slander, was that the riot police commander was called names that implied accusations of abuse of power and official authority, as well as murder. The outcome of the court hearing: a sentence of two years' restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility under Article 188 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ("Slander").