Mikalai Dzemchanka
sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 25 August 1989
Date of detention: 29 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 369-1 of the Criminal Code — Discrediting Belarus
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 31 March 2023
Judge: Aliaksandr Zinchuk
Cases: The Zeltser case
Mikalai Dzemchanka was arrested in Homieĺ and remanded in pre-trial detention for commenting on social media on the deaths of Andrei Zeltser and a KGB officer on September 28, 2021.
On September 2, 2022, Dzemchanka was convicted of ‘discrediting the Republic of Belarus’ (Article 369-1 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
