Ivan Rahatniou
sentenced to 19 months of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 13 November 1989
Date of detention: 30 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 19 months
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 19 October 2022
Judge: Sviatlana Bandarenka
Cases: The Zeltser case
Ivan Rahatniou was detained in Minsk for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
At the end of August 2022, the Minsk Municipal Court found Rahatniou guilty of ‘inciting hatred’ and sentenced him to 19 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony under Article 130 of the Criminal Code.
