Henadz Smirnou
sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison
Date of birth: 29 October 1974
Date of detention: 3 August 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 363 of the Criminal Code — Resistance to a police officer or other person guarding public order
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Date of release: 9 December 2023
Judge: Tatsiana Zharko
Prosecutor: Dziyana Klimovich
Henadz Smirnou was sentenced on October 27, 2021 by the Liachavičy District Court to two years and six months in a penal colony under Part 2 of Art. 363 and 368 of the Criminal Code for resisting a police officer and insulting the president.
According to the prosecution, on March 15, 2021, Smirnou, together with his son, put up leaflets with a portrait of Lukashenka on the notice board of a bus stop, on a transformer substation near the Liachavičy district executive committee and on a street lighting pole. The leaflets contained the texts "Adolf Ryhoravich Lukashenka" and "We need a corpse in the clothes of a king, not a living moron at the helm."
On August 3, during his arrest for committing administrative offenses, Smirnou allegedly used violence against a police officer.
