Ihar Parunkevich

Date of birth: 5 January 1995

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 6 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Alena Bachyshcha

Groups: Activists, Businessmen

Notes: Trials in absentia

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