Ruslan Asiatrou
sentenced to 2 1/2 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 25 May 1986
Date of detention: 29 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 1 March 2023
Judge: Aliaksei Khlyshchankou
Cases: The Zeltser case
Ruslan Asiatrou was arrested on September 29, 2021, in a criminal case opened for comments on the Internet after death of KGB officer Dzmitryi Fedasiuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser.
He was charged under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Incitement to hatred).
On November 11, 2022, Judge Aliaksei Khlyshchankou of the Homieĺ regional court sentenced Asiatrou to two and a half years in a general-security penal colony.
