Dzmitryi Yanushkevich

sentenced to 1 year of imprisonment

Date of detention: 5 July 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 370 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of state symbols
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 1 year

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 16 May 2023

Judge: Natallia Kozel

Prosecutor: Lizaveta Shyshkina

Dzmitryi Yanushkevich was convicted of ‘desecrating state symbols’ and ‘insulting the president’ and sentenced to 12 months of imprisonment in a penal colony under Article 370 and Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code.

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