Aleh Yahorankou
sentenced to 1 1/2 years of imprisonment
Prisoner
Date of birth: 21 February 1976
Date of detention: 27 March 2023
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
Judge: Tatsiana Kastsiuk
Prison: Penal colony No. 1
Since late March 2023, Aleh Yahorankou was remanded in the pre-trial detention center in Prison #4 in Mahilioŭ, pending trial for his one-word disrespectful comment about Lukashenka posted on a social network.
On May 26, 2023, the Lieninski District Court of Mahilioŭ sentenced him to 18 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony. The case was heard by Judge Tatsiana Kastsiuk.