Dzianis Pyrkh
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 19 September 1977
Date of detention: 23 September 2022
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. 369-1 of the Criminal Code — Discrediting Belarus
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 10 November 2024
Judge: Maryna Katsuba
Cases: The Zeltser case
Dzianis Pyrkh was convicted on November 28, 2022, in the Rečyca City and District Court for his comments on the Internet related to the shootout on September 28, 2021, in Minsk, between the KGB officers and the IT worker Andrei Zeltser.
He was convicted under several articles of the Criminal Code:
- Article 368 ('Contempt of the President of Belarus')
- Article 369 ('Contempt of a public official')
- Article 369-1 ('Discrediting the Republic of Belarus')
The sentence is unknown.
