Mikalai Dzemchanka

sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment

Date of birth: 25 August 1989

Date of detention: 29 September 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 369-1 of the Criminal Code — Discrediting Belarus

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 31 March 2023

Judge: Aliaksandr Zinchuk

Mikalai Dzemchanka was arrested in Homieĺ and remanded in pre-trial detention for commenting on social media on the deaths of Andrei Zeltser and a KGB officer on September 28, 2021.

On September 2, 2022, Dzemchanka was convicted of ‘discrediting the Republic of Belarus’ (Article 369-1 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

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