Ema Stsepulionak
school teacher
Date of birth: 7 November 1953
Date of detention: 29 September 2021
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
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 17 November 2022
Date of release: 2 May 2023
Judge: Iryna Yaskevich
Ema Stsepulionak was detained on September 29, 2021, for comments on social networks in the Zeltser case and charged with ‘incitement to hatred’ and ‘insult to a government official’ under Articles 130 and 369 of the Criminal Code. During her imprisonment, the woman's health and eyesight deteriorated.
In mid-September 2022 the measure of restraint was changed to house arrest.
On November 10, 2022 the trial began in the Miory District Court behind the closed doors. On 17 November 2022, she was sentenced to two years of imprisonment and put under arrest in the courtroom.
