Aliaksandr Laurentsyeu

sentenced to 3 years and 4 months of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 26 August 1991

Date of detention: 2 May 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 411 — Malicious disobedience to the demands of administration of the correctional institution

Sentence: 4 years and 4 months

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

Groups: Activists, Businessmen

Notes: Detention upon return to Belarus

Cases: Protests in Hrodna

Aliaksandr Laurentsyeu

Aliaksandr Laurentsyeu, a Hrodna resident, was detained on May 2, 2022. He is charged with two articles of the Criminal Code - Article 368 (insulting the President) and Article 369 (insulting a government official).

On August 2, 2022, the Lieninski District Court of Hrodna passed a verdict on the political prisoner finding him guilty and sentencing him to 3 years and 4 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

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

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