Aliaksandr Zakharau

sentenced to 1 1/2 years of imprisonment

Date of birth: 24 June 1981

Date of detention: 12 January 2023

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 1 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Maksim Trusevich

Prison: Penal colony No. 5

Aliaksandr Zakharau was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in a general-security penal colony for insulting Lukashenka under Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Belarus ('Contempt of the President of Belarus'). Judge Maksim Trusevich considered the case in the Pieršamajski District Court of Minsk on March 31 and April 3, 2023.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 5. 225293, Ivacevičy, vul. Dziaržynskaha 1

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