Aleh Dzmitrachenka

sentenced to 1 1/2 years of imprisonment, released after serving sentence

Date of birth: 29 March 1976

Date of detention: 17 December 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official

Sentence: 1 1/2 years

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

Prison sentence start date: 17 December 2021

Judge: Mikhail Yurchanka

Aleh Dzmitrachenka

Aleh Dzmitrachenka was sentenced to 18 months of restricted freedom in an open-type penitentiary for 'insulting a government official' (Article 369 of the Criminal Code).

On December 17, 2021, he started to serve his sentence in open-type penal facility #55 in Minsk.

In early June 2023, he was released after serving his sentence.

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