Maksim Hrechkayedau
convicted, sentence unknown
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 5 May 1980
Date of detention: 29 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
- Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 2 years and 9 months
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 12 May 2024
Judge: Zhanna Brysina
Cases: The Zeltser case
Maksim Hrechkayedau was detained in late September 2021 as part of a criminal case brought after the fatal police shooting that resulted in the deaths of IT specialist Andrei Zeltser and KGB officer Dzmitryi Fedasiuk.
Hrechkayedau was convicted of ‘incitement of hatred’, ‘slandering the president’, and ‘insulting the president’ under Articles 130, 367, and 368 of the Criminal Code. Human rights defenders do not have information on his sentence yet.
