Ivan Suprunchyk
sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment
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
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
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).
