Siarhei Babko

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 4 March 1972

Date of detention: 26 May 2022

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

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 22 January 2023

Date of release: 23 March 2024

Judge: Yuryi Mashketau

Siarhei Babko was detained on May 26, 2022, as part of a criminal case under Article 368 of the Criminal Code for insulting the President of Belarus with a comment on the Internet.

On 19 September, the Maskoŭski District Court of Minsk sentenced 50-year-old political prisoner Siarhei Babko to two years of imprisonment. He was charged under two articles of the Criminal Code: part 1 of Art. 368 (insulting Lukashenka) and Art. 369 (insulting a public officer).

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