After peaceful protests of entrepreneurs on 10 of January 2008 S. Parsyukevich was detained and sentenced to 15 days of arrest. While serving the sentence in the Akrestsina jail (Minsk) he was brutally beaten up by a warder. Aware of the Syarhei’s bronchial asthma, warrant officer Aliaksandr Dulub was also grasping his handcrafted victim by the throat not allowing him to breath. It should be also noted that despite Syarhei’ requests warders of prison did not give him to get necessary medical treatment and pills during the rest of the days of his jailing. Once S. Parsyukevich came out from prison he filed an appeal to the district prosecutor calling on the fact of torture and misuse of power of militiaman in the Akrestina jail. But instead of investigating his complaint Belarusian authorities opened a case against Syarhey himself, blaming him for attack and inflicting a militiaman. On 4 of March Syarhei Parsyukevich was arrested after his showing up in the district prosecutor office where he was called to. Nowadays being suspected of violent acts against militiaman (article 364 of the Criminal Code) Syarhei is sentences to 2,5 years of imprisonment.

The political prisoner Syarhei Parsyukevich was released on August, 20 2008 following a solidarity campaign.