Stsiapan Zadoika

Prisoner

Date of birth: 27 August 1984

Date of detention: 18 April 2023

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 370 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of state symbols
  • 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. 366 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty

Sentence: 5 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Marharyta Lantsevich

Cases: Protests in Hrodna

Notes: War in Ukraine

Stsiapan Zadoika was convicted under four articles of the Criminal Code: Part 2 of Article 368 (insulting Lukashenka), Article 369 (insulting a government official), Article 370 (desecration of state symbols), Part 2 of Article 366 (violence or threat of violence against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty). According to pro-government Telegram channels, the man wrote more than 1,200 comments.

On October 24, 2023,  Stsiapan was sentenced to five years and six months of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony. He must also pay a fine of 100 basic units (3,700 Belarusian roubles). The case was considered by Judge Marharyta Lantsevich.

      On November 17, 2023 Stsiapan was included in the list of Belarusian citizens, foreign citizens and stateless persons involved in extremist activities.

 

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