Matsvei Mitsura
sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 31 July 1991
Date of detention: 30 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 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 10 June 2024
Judge: Ihar Ziamtsou
Cases: The Zeltser case
Matsvei Mitsura was detained in Minsk for publishing comments on the Internet concerning the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
Mitsura was charged with ‘insult to a government official’ and ‘incitement to hatred’ under Article 369 and Part 1 of the Article 130 of the Criminal Code.
On October 7, 2022, Judge Ihar Ziamtsou of the Mahilioŭ Regional Court found the political prisoner guilty and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony and a fine of 3,200 Belarusian rubles ($1,250). The man's iPhone was also confiscated.
