Ihar Artsiukh
sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 14 August 1985
Date of detention: 1 October 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 6 February 2023
Date of release: 28 January 2024
Judge: Zhanna Brysina
Cases: The Zeltser case
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Ihar Artsiukh 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 August 4, 2022, he was sentenced in the Minsk Municipal Court to three years of imprisonment. The 37-year-old man was found guilty under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (incitement to hatred).
