Dzmitryi Beliamuk
sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 29 March 1985
Date of detention: 17 February 2023
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. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Ruslana Sianko
Prosecutor: Aliaksandr Batsiushka
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Dzmitryi Beliamuk was charged under three articles of the Criminal Code: Part 1 of Article 368 ('Contempt of the president of Belarus'), Article 369 ('Contempt of a public official'), and Part 1 of Article 130 ('Incitement to racial, national, religious or other social hatred or enmity').
According to the Viasna branch in Brest, Beliamuk was taken into custody in mid-February 2023.
On June 28, 2023, the Brest Regional Court sentenced Dzmitryi Beliamuk to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony and 100 base fines (3,700 Belarusian rubles or $1,166 as of August 8, 2023). Judge Ruslana Sianko conducted the trial was, with Aliaksandr Batsiushka as the state prosecutor.
