Aliaksandr Hrynevich

sentenced to 3 years of restricted freedom

Date of birth: 29 August 1988

Date of detention: 11 November 2021

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 3 years

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

Prison sentence start date: 11 November 2021

Judge: Yauhen Brehan

Prosecutor: Andrei Manko

Prison: Open correctional facility No. 55

Aliaksandr Hrynevich was sentenced in Brest to three years of restricted freedom in an open penitentiary ("khimiya") for insulting a government official (Article 369 of the Criminal Code).

According to the indictment, on October 18, 2020, while outside Belarus, Hrynevich posted an "insulting comment" in a Telegram channel under the photo of a police officer of the Lieninski District Department of Internal Affairs of Brest.

The convict was arrested to serve the sentence on November 11, 2021.

Mail address: Open correctional facility No. 55. 220021, Minsk, vulica Sacyjalistyčnaja, 7

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