Pavel Varapai
sentenced to 3 1/2 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 7 August 1991
Date of detention: 30 August 2022
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
Art. 391 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a judge
art. 188 of the Criminal Code — Defamation
Sentence: 3 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Dzmitryi Karsiuk
Pavel Varapai was convicted of ‘insulting the President’, ‘insulting a government official’, ‘insulting a judge’, and ‘defamation’ under Articles 368, 369,391, and 188 of the Criminal Code accordingly and sentenced to three years of imprisonment.