Aliaksandr Loban
sentenced to 21 months of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 19 July 1981
Date of detention: 29 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 21 months
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 7 December 2022
Judge: Zhanna Brysina
Cases: The Zeltser case
Aliaksandr Loban was detained on September 29, 2021, in a criminal case brought for his comments on the Internet after the deaths of Andrei Zeltser and a KGB officer.
He was charged under Art. 130 of the Criminal Code (Incitement to social hatred).
On December 7, 2022, Judge Zhanna Brysina sentenced Loban to 21 months in a general-security penal colony. The trial was closed to the public. The political prisoner had served his sentence in the detention center, so he was released from custody.
