Yauhen Piatrou
Russian citizen, musician, sentenced to 1 year in prison
Date of birth: 3 May 1999
Date of detention: 6 September 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 1 year
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Sviatlana Lukyanava
Prosecutor: Dubautsova
Yauhen Piatrou is a rapper known as nokrolik who was convicted over a song he wrote. The track allegedly insulted Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
Piatrou was sentenced to one year in a penal colony under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting the president). In summer 2022, he was released and deported to Russia.
