Raman Ahnishchanka
sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 26 September 1989
Date of detention: 1 October 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 10 March 2023
Judge: Maryia Aliferuk
Raman Ahnishchanka was detained in Brest for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
On September 28, 2022, the political prisoner was convicted of ‘incitement to hatred’ (Article 130 of the Criminal Code) and ‘insult of a government official’ (Article 369 of the Criminal Code) in the Maskoŭski District Court of Brest. Judge Maryia Aliferuk sentenced Ahnishchanka to 24 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony and fined him 3,200 Belarusian rubles ($1,260).