Pavel Hancharyk
sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 18 March 1979
Date of detention: 30 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 21 November 2022
Date of release: 11 March 2024
Judge: Liudmila Hrynko
Cases: The Zeltser case
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Pavel Hancharyk was detained for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
On August 30, 2022, the Homiel Regional Court convicted Hancharyk of ‘incitement to hatred’ (Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code) and ‘insulting the President’ (Part 1 of Article 368) and sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
