Yury Vinichuk
sentenced to 1 1/2 years of restricted freedom; served full term; released
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 19 June 1981
Date of detention: 29 June 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 1 1/2 years
Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")
Prison sentence start date: 29 June 2021
Date of release: 28 December 2022
Judge: Pavel Hlavatski
Prosecutor: Natallia Shastachuk
Yury Vinichuk was sentenced on June 9, 2021 to 18 months of restricted freedom in an open-type penal facility by the Brest District Court under Art. 368 of the Criminal Code ('insulting the president').
According to the indictment, on September 3, 2020, being drunk, Vinichuk called the police and spoke insultingly against Lukashenka while talking to the operator. Later the same day, during a conversation with officers of the Brest police department, he insulted the president again with obscene language.
Since June 29, 2021, he served his sentence in open-type penal facility #48 in the Mahilioŭ region.
It is known that on October 30, 2022, he was detained in the open-type penal facility and sentenced to seven days of arrest under an administrative report.
The political prisoner served his full sentence and was released on December 28, 2022.
