Aliaksei Horbach

served 2 1/2 years of imprisonment

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 23 May 1978

Date of detention: 1 October 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 2 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 10 March 2023

Date of release: 22 July 2023

Judge: Aliaksei Khlyshchankou

Cases: The Zeltser case

Aliaksei Horbach was arrested in Svietlahorsk, Homieĺ region, for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.

On November 25, 2022, the Homieĺ Regional Court convicted Horbach of “insulting a public officer” (Article 369) and “inciting social hatred” (Article 130 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to two years and six months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

On February 14, 2023, the appeal against the verdict was to be reviewed.

In mid-March 2023, the political prisoner was transferred from remand prison #3 in Homieĺ to penal colony #5 in Ivacevičy, Brest region.

On July 22, 2023, the political prisoner was released having served his full sentence.

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