Mikhail Marinich

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Charge:	"Theft (including swindling/fraud, deception and grand larceny)"
Sentence:	5 years
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	2004
Year Convicted:	2004
Year Cleared:	2010
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Belarus
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Mikhail Marinich was wrongly convicted in 2004 of stealing 40 computers belonging to the U.S. Embassy in Minsk, Belarus. The U.S. Embassy officials denied that any computers had been stolen. Marinich was sentenced to 10 years in prison. After he was imprisoned his sentence was reduced to 3-1/2 years. In 2005 his sentence was reduced by one year under the amnesty for the sixtieth anniversary of the victory in World War II. In 2006 Marinich filed a petition with the United Nation's Human Rights Committee. In 2010 the HRC issued its ruling that Marinich's trial judge was biased and his presumption of innocence was violated. The HRC's ruling stated Marinich was entitled to compensation."
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Age When Imprisoned:	64
Age When Released:	66
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Mikhail Marinich v. Belarus, Communication No. 1502/2006, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/99/D/1502/2006 (2010)."
Information Location 1:	http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/undocs/1502-2006.html
Information Source 2:	"Belarusian court sentences opposition leader, New York Times, December 31, 2004"
Information Location 2:	http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Belarus-Opposition-Trial.html
Information Source 3:	"Theft Conviction of Dissident Blasted, Seattle Times, December 31, 2004, p. A11"
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Mikhail Marinich

Charge:

"Theft (including swindling/fraud, deception and grand larceny)"

Sentence:

5 years

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

2004

Year Convicted:

2004

Year Cleared:

2010

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Belarus

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

64

Age When Released:

66

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Mikhail Marinich v. Belarus, Communication No. 1502/2006, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/99/D/1502/2006 (2010)."

Information Location 1:

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/undocs/1502-2006.html

Information Source 2:

"Belarusian court sentences opposition leader, New York Times, December 31, 2004"

Information Location 2:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Belarus-Opposition-Trial.html

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"Theft Conviction of Dissident Blasted, Seattle Times, December 31, 2004, p. A11"

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