Mikalai Serhiyenia
sentenced to 20 months of imprisonment; served full term; released
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 24 February 1974
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: 20 months
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 11 November 2022
Judge: Tatsiana Falkouskaya
Cases: The Zeltser case
Mikalai Serhiyenia was detained in Minsk for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of the IT worker Andrei Zeltser and the KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
It is known that Serhiyenia was charged of ‘insulting a government official’ and ‘inciting hatred’ under Articles 369 and 130 of the Criminal Code.
The political prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to 20 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony and a fine of 3,200 Belarusian rubles (1,270 US dollars).
Serhiyenia served his full term and was released on November 11, 2022.
