Natallia Vasilevich
released awaiting sentence commencement
Date of birth: 14 August 1980
Date of detention: 15 December 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")
Judge: Aliaksandr Volk
Prison: Released awaiting the commencement of the sentence
Natallia Vasilevich was detained on December 15, 2021. She was charged under Art. 368 of the Criminal Code (Insulting the President) and Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a government official).
She is being held in pre-trial detention center.
The first court hearing was held on June 7. On June 10, the state prosecutor requested to send Vasilevich to an open-type correctional facility for three years. The court found no mitigating circumstances and granted the prosecution's proposal to sentence Natallia Vasilevich to three years of freedom restriction in an open-type correctional penitentiary.
Political prisoner Natallia Vasilevich released awaiting sentence commencement
