Ryhor Hryh
Prisoner
Date of birth: 21 September 1969
Date of detention: 29 September 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 361 of the Criminal Code — Calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 4 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Mikalai Rachynski
Prison: Penal colony No. 2
Cases: The Zeltser case
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Ryhor Hryh was detained in Hrodna for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
On 12 September 2022, the Hrodna Regional Court pronounced the verdict on 52-year-old political prisoner Ryhor Hryh – four years of imprisonment. He was detained in the ‘Zeltser case’ and charged with insulting Lukashenka (part 1 of Art. 369 of the Criminal Code), calling for sanctions (part 3 of Art. 361 of the Criminal Code), and ‘inciting social enmity’ (Art. 130 of the Criminal Code).
