Andrei Lomsha

Prisoner

Date of detention: 10 September 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. 188 of the Criminal Code — Defamation

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")

Judge: Dzmitry Hvozd

Prosecutor: Siarhei Lytsin

Prison: Open correctional facility No. 55

Andrei Lomsha was charged under three articles of the Criminal Code: Defamation (Article 188 of the Criminal Code), Insulting the President (Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code), and Insulting a government official (Article 369 of the Criminal Code).

The case was considered by Judge Dzmitry Hvozd.

On October 18, 2021, Lomsha was sentenced to three years of restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya") and fined 1000 rubles of compensation for moral damage in favor of the victim Turchynovich.

He serves his sentence in open correctional facility No. 55.

 
Mail address: Open correctional facility No. 55. 220021, Minsk, vulica Sacyjalistyčnaja, 7

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