Andrei Asaula
sentenced to 3 years in prison
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 11 May 1983
Date of detention: 4 May 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 20 November 2023
Judge: Aleh Kaliada, Anzhela Kastsiukevich
Prosecutor: Krystsina Kachanava, Veranika Zubik
Andrei Asaula was sentenced to three years in an open penitentiary. However, he did not go to serve his sentence, but was detained on May 4, instead, and charged with three more offenses: Art. 369 ("insult of a representative of the auhtorities"), Part 2 of Art. 368 ("insulting the president") and Art. 364 (“violence or threat of violence against a police officer”).
On August 6, 2021, Judge Anzhela Kastsiukevich of the Zavodski District Court of Minsk sentenced Asaula to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
