Aliaksandr Nikanau

Prisoner

Date of birth: 5 October 1975

Date of detention: 26 June 2023

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 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Tatsiana Kastsiuk

Aliaksandr Nikanau

Aliaksandr Nikanau was detained on June 26, 2023. He was charged under Article 368 (insulting Lukashenka) and Article 367 (slander against Lukashenka).

On August 31, 2023, in Leninski District Court of Mahiliou Judge Tatsiana Kastsiuk sentenced Nikanau to two years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

 

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