Dzmitryi Lahodzich

sentenced to 3 1/2 years of imprisonment

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 4 November 1991

Date of detention: 30 September 2021

Charges indicted:

  • 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 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 10 March 2023

Date of release: 6 August 2024

Judge: Mikalai Sianko

Prosecutor: Maryia Bialt

Cases: The Zeltser case

On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)

Dzmitry Lahodzich was detained in Brest for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.

Lahodzich was initially charged with ‘insulting a government official’ under Article 369 of the Criminal Code. But eventually, he was accused of ‘insulting the president‘ under Part 1 and part 2 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code and ‘inciting social hatred’ under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code.

On November 4, 2022, the Brest Regional Court found the political prisoner guilty and sentenced him to three and a half years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

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