Ivan Suprunchyk

sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 17 May 1988

Date of detention: 12 August 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
  • Art. 179 of the Criminal Code — Illegal collection and dissemination of information about private life

Sentence: 5 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison: Penal colony No. 22

On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)

Ivan Suprunchyk was sentenced to five years of imprisonment for sharing a police officer’s data with an ‘extremist’ Telegram channel. This was qualified as ‘preparing to premeditated actions aimed at inciting hatred’ (Part 1 of Article 13 and Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code) and ‘illegal collection and dissemination of information about privacy’ (Article 179 of the Criminal Code).

Mail address: Penal colony No. 22. 225295, Brest region, Ivacevičy, station Damanava, PO Box 20

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