Pavel Klapatok

sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

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

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.

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