Kanstantsin Prusau

artist, designer, sentenced to 3 1/2 years

Prisoner

Date of birth: 24 November 1979

Date of detention: 28 October 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 3 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Yaraslau Paremski

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

Groups: Cultural workers

Notes: Health issues

Konstantin Prusov

Konstantin Prusov was convicted on February 9, 2022 by the Čyhunačny district court of Homieĺ.

Judge Yaraslau Paremski found him guilty under three articles of the Criminal Code: Part 1 of Art. 367 of the Criminal Code (Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus); Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code (Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus in public); art. 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a government official).

By partial combining the sentences, Prusov was given a final sentence of 3.5 years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony and a fine of 3,200 Belarusian rubles (about USD 970). His cell phone was confiscated to the state.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

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