Ihar Krautsou

sentenced to 3 1/2 years

Date of birth: 26 January 1985

Date of detention: 15 November 2021

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. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 3 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Aliaksandr Piskunou

Prison: Penal colony No. 15

Igor Kravtsov was sentenced at a closed trial to three years in a general-security penal colony under Art. 130 of the Criminal Code for intentional acts aimed at inciting hatred, Art. 368 and 369 for insulting on a social network Lukashenka and the military commissar of Homieĺ region Andrei Kryvanosau.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 15. 213105, Mahilioŭ, Viejna, Slaŭharadskaja šaša 183

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