Ihar Buzuk
sentenced to 2 years in prison, released after serving full sentence
Date of birth: 13 October 1979
Date of detention: 28 July 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 370 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of state symbols
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 28 July 2021
Date of release: 25 May 2023
Ihar Buzuk is an entrepreneur based in Hrodna. He was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony under Article 370 of the Criminal Code of Belarus ('Desecration of the state symbols'). Buzuk was convicted of hanging a white-red-white flag on the Mound of Glory WWII memorial complex.
He was arrested in July 2021 while trying to leave Belarus.
On November 3, Ihar Buzuk married his girlfriend in Prison #1 in Hrodna.
In early December 2021, he was reported to have been transferred from Prison #1 in Hrodna to penal colony #15 in Mahilioŭ.
In late May 2023, the political prisoner was released, having served his full sentence.
