Maksim Bas
sentenced to 3 1/2 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 21 February 1991
Date of detention: 29 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 3 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 20 September 2024
Judge: Iryna Maiko
Cases: The Zeltser case
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Mattea Meyer, Member of the Swiss National Council
Maksim Bas was detained in Minsk for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
On October 24, 2022, Judge Iryna Maiko of the Minsk Regional Court heard the case of the political prisoner. She found Bas guilty of ‘insulting a government official’ (Article 369 of the CC) and ‘inciting hatred’ (Article 130 of the CC) and sentenced him to three and a half years of imprisonment and a fine of 3,200 Belarusian rubles ($1,260).
