Yauhen Kladou

Date of birth: 26 November 1982

Date of detention: 30 August 2023

Charges indicted:

Art. 368 of the Criminal Code β€” Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 1 year

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Safiya Khvalko

Yauhen Kladou was charged under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code. 

Initially, on August 30, 2023, Yauhen was detained under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code (Production, distribution or storage of extremist materials). Later, a criminal case was initiated against him.

On November 24, 2023, Judge Safiya Khvalko found Yauhen guilty and sentenced him to one year in a penal colony.

      On March 1, 2024, he was included in the list of extremists by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

 

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