Aleh Zubrytski
sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 2 November 1989
Date of detention: 1 July 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 14 May 2023
Date of release: 25 October 2023
Judge: Viktoryia Shabunia
Prosecutor: Artsiom Tsviatkou
Aleh Zubrytski, a 34-year-old resident of Minsk, was sentenced to three years of restricted freedom in an open-type penal facility under Article 364 of the Criminal Code ('Violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer').
He was tried for sending a threatening SMS to Hanna Navumchyk, the wife of a riot policeman, on 14 August 2020. Zubrytski told the court that he did not send that text message, and his defense attorney pointed at the lack of evidence.
On 1 July 2021, Zubrytski began serving his sentence in open-type penal colony #17 in Homieĺ.
On March 24, 2023, the regime of serving his sentence was changed to imprisonment in a penal colony. Aleh Zubrytski was placed in the remand prison in Homieĺ.
