Aliaksei Zabiran

sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment

Date of birth: 8 May 1989

Date of detention: 4 November 2021

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
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Dzmitryi Bubenchyk

Prison: Penal colony No. 15

Godparent: Freddy André Øvstegård, Member of the Norwegian Parliament

On the list of “terrorists” (money transfers are prohibited)

Aliaksei Zabiran was arrested in Hrodna on November 4, 2021 and taken into custody on charges of insulting a government official under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code.

On June 23, 2022, the Hrodna Regional Court of found Aliaksei guilty and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony. He was also ordered to pay 1,000 rubles to the victim and a fine of 1,600 rubles.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 15. 213105, Mahilioŭ, Viejna, Slaŭharadskaja šaša 183

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