Yaraslau Pashkou
served full term, released
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 15 July 1997
Date of detention: 30 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 21 months
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 1 November 2022
Judge: Halina Knizhonak-Maksimava
Cases: The Zeltser case
Yaraslau Pashkou was detained in Brest for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
On 7 September 2022, the Mazyr District Court passed a sentence on political prisoner Yaraslau Pashkou. He was found guilty of ‘discrediting the Republic of Belarus’ (Art. 369-1 of the Criminal Code) and ‘insulting the president’ (part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to 21 months of imprisonment and a fine of 3,200 Belarusian rubles ($1,300).
Pashkou served his sentence in full and was released from prison around November 2022.
