Michail Liapiejka

subjected to coercive treatment

Date of birth: 2 February 1948

Date of detention: 18 June 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 368 of the Criminal Code β€” Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: coercive mental treatment

Penalty: compulsory psychiatric treatment

Judge: Zhanna Pushkina

Mikhail Liapeika was subjected to coercive psychiatric treatment for insulting Aliaksandr Lukashenka. A criminal case was opened against Mikhail under Article 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting the President).

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