Mikhail Lintouski

sentenced to 1 1/2 year in prison

Date of birth: 13 November 1987

Date of detention: 27 August 2021

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 1 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 27 August 2021

Date of release: 20 September 2022

Judge: Iryna Yaskevich

Prosecutor: Sviatlana Ramanouskaya

Mikhail Lintouski is a stockbreeder at a farm in the Miory district who was sentenced to one year and six months in a penal colony for insulting the president.

Lintouski faced criminal charges after he posted a video in which he told a joke about Lukashenka. He also called him a "moron".

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