Ihar Karpitski
sentenced to seven years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 21 October 1969
Date of detention: 10 October 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
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. 366 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty
Sentence: 7 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony
Judge: Tatsiana Shotsik
Prison: Penal colony No. 15
Ihar Karpitski was convicted under:
Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of insulting Mr. Aliaksandr Lukashenka;
Article 369 of the Criminal Code of insulting a government official;
Part 1 and 2 Article 366 of the Criminal Code of threatening violence against an official performing official duties and Mr. Aliaksandr Lukashenka, which was impossible to carry out;
Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of participating in a peaceful assembly.
By partially combining the sentences under the abovementioned articles the court sentenced him to seven years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.
