Mikalai Lasitski

Date of birth: 12 August 1989

Date of detention: 10 March 2021

Charges indicted:

art. 188 of the Criminal Code — Defamation

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")

Prison sentence start date: 10 March 2021

Date of release: 25 February 2023

Judge: Dzmitryi Svitsin

Prosecutor: Marchanka

Mikalai Lasitski was sentenced to two (2) years of imprisonment at an open-type correctional facility under Art. 188 of the Criminal Code (Defamation).

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