Ihar Piatran

sentenced to 2 years in prison

Former prisoner

Date of detention: 22 September 2021

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

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 22 September 2021

Date of release: 22 August 2023

Judge: Yulyana Shcherba

Ihar Piatran is a resident of Baranavičy sentenced to two years in a penal colony under Art. 369 and 364 of the Criminal Code for threatening police officers and insulting an official in comments on a social media site.

 

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