Tsimur Khairulin
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 30 March 1983
Date of detention: 30 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 25 October 2023
Judge: Alena Ananich
Cases: The Zeltser case
Tsimur Khairulin was detained for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
On August 5, 2022, the Minsk Municipal Court sentenced a political prisoner: he was found guilty of ‘insulting a government official’ (Article 369 of the Criminal Code) and ‘inciting hatred’ (Article 130 of the Criminal Code and sentenced to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
