Siarhei Babko
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
Judge: Yuryi Mashketau
Prison: Penal colony No. 17
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).
