Nadzeya Polkina
sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 21 July 1961
Date of detention: 18 March 2022
Charges indicted:
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Natallia Ahladkova
Prison: Penal colony No. 4
Nadzeya Polkina works for Babrujsk knitwear factory.
She was tried together with four other defendants in the ‘terrorism’ case in Babrujsk. The woman was sentenced under Article 368 of the Criminal Code for ‘insulting Mr. Lukashenka’ to 24 months in a penal colony.