Halina Mikhalchuk
released on pardon
Date of birth: 29 August 1952
Date of detention: 7 February 2022
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. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 20 September 2022
Judge: Andrei Talochka
Prosecutor: Ala Kuzma
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Mattea Meyer, member of the Swiss Parliament
Halina Mikhalchuk is a pensioner from Vaŭkavysk, sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in a general-security penal colony.
She was found guilty under three articles of the Criminal Code: Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code (Defamation of the President of Belarus), Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code (Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus), Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a government official).
It is known that on October 26, 2021, she was sentenced to two years of home confinement under defamatory article 369 of the Criminal Code. Prior to the trial, the retired woman was detained for two months (from September 21, 2021, to November 21, 2021): she was initially detained under Article 342 of the Criminal Code. Before retiring, she worked on the railroad.
On September 20, 2022, it became known that Mikhalchuk was released from the penal colony on pardon.
