Aliaksandr Adziarykha

Date of birth: 27 September 1980

Date of detention: 29 August 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

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Dzmitry Karsiuk

Prison: Penal colony No. 17

Salihorsk resident Aliaksandr Adziarykha was convicted under part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code for insulting Aliaksandr Lukashenka, Art. 369 for insulting KGB Chairperson Ivan Tsertsel, CEC Chairperson Liudmila Yarmoshyna, deputies, ministers for foreign affairs and emergencies, and the prosecutor to three years of imprisonment and a fine of 6,400 Belarusian roubles ($2,535)

Mail address: Penal colony No. 17. 213004, Škloŭ, vulica 1-ja Zavodskaja 8

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