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
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Freddy André Øvstegård, Member of the Norwegian Parliament
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.