Pavel Klapatok
sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 9 December 1980
Date of detention: 6 October 2022
Charges indicted:
Art. 370 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of state symbols
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 4 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Henadz Mazaila
Prison: Prison No. 1
Pavel Klapatok was convicted of ‘insulting the president’, ‘slandering the president’, and ‘desecrating the state symbols’ under Part 1 of Article 368, Part 2 of Article 367, and Article 370 of the Criminal Code respectively for his posts on the Internet including a digital image with a combination of red background and a green ornamented swastika. On October 6, 2022, the Lieninski District Court of Hrodna sentenced him to three years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
