Kanstantsin Khanin
sentenced to 2 1/2 years in penal colony
Date of birth: 20 August 1979
Date of detention: 21 January 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 19 June 2023
Judge: Dzmitryi Bubenchyk
Prosecutor: Anton Shalkovich
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Kanstantsin Khanin is from Astraviec, Hrodna region. He worked as a taxi driver in Minsk.
He was convicted for a comment on the Internet under Art. 130 of the Criminal Code ('Incitement to racial, national, religious or other social enmity or hatred') and sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment in a penal colony.
