Aliaksandr Smolka

sentenced to 1 1/2 years of imprisonment

Date of detention: 15 September 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 341 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of structures and damage to property
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 1 1/2 years

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

Prison: Open correctional facility No. 9

Aliaksandr Smolka was convicted of ‘desecrating structures and damaging property’ with protest graffiti and ‘insulting the president’ under Articles 341 and 368 of the Criminal Code respectively. He was sentenced to 18 months of restricted freedom in an open-type penal facility.

Mail address: Open correctional facility No. 9. 210034, Vitebsk, street 3rd Chepinskaya, 39

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