Kanstantsin Dudarau

sentenced to 1 year of imprisonment

Date of detention: 21 June 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 1 year

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 10 July 2023

Judge: Siarhei Maltsau

Kanstantsin Dudarau was convicted on June 21, 2022. A Homieĺ Čyhunačny District Court Judge Siarhei Maltsau found him guilty under Article 367 of the Criminal Code for slandering Aliaksandr Lukashenka and sentenced him to 12 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

The defendant's cell phone will be confiscated as a means of a committed crime.

The case was heard behind closed doors, so the details are unknown.

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