Dzmitryi Kunusau
sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 10 May 1984
Date of detention: 29 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 25 February 2024
Judge: Sviatlana Bandarenka
Prosecutor: Dzianis Zhurko
Cases: The Zeltser case
Dzmitry Kunusau was detained in Minsk for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
On 4 August 2022, Dzmitry was convicted of ‘insulting government official’ and ’inciting hatred’ under Articles 369 and 130 of the Criminal Code and sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
