Yury Paliukhovich
sentenced to 5 years
Date of birth: 9 June 1986
Charges indicted:
Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
Art. 391 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a judge
Sentence: 5 years
Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")
Prison sentence start date: 26 March 2022
Judge: Tatsiana Rakhmanenka, Viktoryia Shabunia
Prosecutor: Volha Bahukouskaya
Prison: Open correctional facility No. 21
Yury Paliuchovich was first sentenced to 3 years under home confinement and then to 3 years in an open-type correctional facility. Both episodes of the case under Article 369 of the Criminal Code involved insulting representatives of the authorities.
He has been serving his sentence since March 26, 2022.
Paliukhovich will be tried in a new criminal case. He has already been tried twice for "insulting public officials". A third criminal case under Article 364 of the Criminal Code (violence or threat of violence against a police officer), article 369 (insulting a public officer) and article 391 (insulting a judge) was brought against him.
