Aleh Dutchyk

sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment

Date of birth: 15 November 1971

Date of detention: 10 April 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Art. 369-1 of the Criminal Code — Discrediting Belarus

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Andrei Hrushko

Prosecutor: Hanna Horbach

Aleh Dutchyk was convicted of ‘discrediting the Republic of Belarus’ and ‘insulting the president’ under Articles 369-1 and 368 of the Criminal Code respectively and sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

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