Yury Hladchuk
sentenced to 2 1/2 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 4 April 1989
Date of detention: 16 June 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 27 March 2023
Date of release: 20 August 2024
Groups: Journalists
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Yury Hladchuk is the special projects editor of the Avtobiznes marketing media. He was arrested on June 16, 2022, after a search. Later it became known that he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center as a defendant in a criminal case under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code ('Organization and preparation of actions grossly disrupting public order, or active participation in them'), and Art. 368 of the Criminal Code ('Contempt of the president of Belarus').
On December 5, 2022, the Frunzienski District Court of Minsk announced a guilty verdict on Yury Hladchuk—two years and six months in a penal colony.
