Pavel Malitvik
sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment
Prisoner
Date of detention: 2 September 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
- Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Yuryi Kazakevich
Pavel Malitvik was convicted of ‘insulting a government official’ and ‘threatening violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies’ under Articles 369 and 364 of the Criminal Code and sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment in a penal colony for his comments about a Ministry of Internal Affairs officer.