Aliaksandr Karniuski

Prisoner

Date of birth: 24 September 1982

Date of detention: 1 February 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison: Penal colony No. 2

Aliaksandr Karniuski was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a penal colony under three articles of the Criminal Code:

  • 364 of the Criminal Code (Threat of violence against government official);
  • 368 of the Criminal Code (Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus);
  • 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a government official).

After the verdict was pronounced, he was detained.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 2. 213800, Babrujsk, vulica Sikorskaha 1

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