Aleh Yahorankou

sentenced to 1 1/2 years of imprisonment

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.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

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