Anatol Liavonik
sentenced to 2 years of penal colony
Date of birth: 5 April 1986
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 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 26 February 2023
Judge: Dzmitryi Kedal
Prison: Penal colony No. 17
Anatol Liavonik was tried for the publications in his profile in the OK (Odnoklassniki) Russian social network that allegedly contained "derogatory information" about Lukashenka. According to the prosecution's position, the goal of those posts was to publicly harm the authority of the state government and to spread "premeditatedly false" information that insulted Lukashenka.
It is known that Anatol Liavonik has two children.
On December 13, 2022, in the Kastryčnicki District Court of Hrodna, Judge Dzmitryi Kedal found Liavonik guilty under Part 2 of Art. 368 ('Insulting the president of Belarus') and Part 2 of Art. 367 ('Defamation against the president of Belarus') of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to 24 months of imprisonment in a general-regime penal colony.
