Kiryl Zhyzhenski

sentenced to 13 months

Date of detention: 4 May 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 1 year and 1 month

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 24 May 2023

Judge: Aliaksandr Zinchuk

Kirill Zhizhensky was found guilty of publicly insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus. He was sentenced to 13 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

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