Aliaksandr Babkin
served full term, released
Date of birth: 31 December 1987
Date of detention: 28 June 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 1 year
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 27 June 2022
Judge: Uladzimir Pazniak
Prosecutor: Darja Hurjanava
Aliaksandr Babkin is a resident of Hrodna, accused in a criminal case of contempt of the president (Article 368 of the Criminal Code).
The case against Babkin was brought on 25 April 2021. He was kept for three days in the temporary detention center, then under house arrest pending trial.
According to the charges, Babkin, being intoxicated, called the police hotline and spoke disparagingly and negatively about the president, degrading his honor and dignity, thereby causing public insult.
Babkin admitted his guilt. He was sentenced to one year of imprisonment and compulsory treatment for alcoholism. He was taken into custody in the courtroom.
According to the information available to human rights defenders, Aliaksandr should have been released in June 2022.
