Siarhei Anufryenka

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 17 October 1981

Date of detention: 29 September 2021

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. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 28 February 2023

Judge: Aliaksandr Kozel

Cases: The Zeltser case

Siarhei Anufryenka was detained for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.

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