Yaraslau Pashkou
served full term, released
Date of birth: 15 July 1997
Date of detention: 30 September 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 21 months
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 1 November 2022
Judge: Halina Knizhonak-Maksimava
Yaraslau Pashkou was detained in Brest for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
On 7 September 2022, the Mazyr District Court passed a sentence on political prisoner Yaraslau Pashkou. He was found guilty of ‘discrediting the Republic of Belarus’ (Art. 369-1 of the Criminal Code) and ‘insulting the president’ (part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to 21 months of imprisonment and a fine of 3,200 Belarusian rubles ($1,300).
Pashkou served his sentence in full and was released from prison around November 2022.