Aliaksandr Vauchok

sentenced to 2 1/2 years of imprisonment

Date of detention: 28 June 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 2 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Natallia Horbach

Aliaksandr Vauchok was convicted of ‘slandering’ and ‘insulting the president’ and under Part 2 of Article 367 and Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code respectively and sentenced to two and a half years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

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