Siarhei Dalivelia
musician, sentenced to 2 years, released after serving full sentence
Date of birth: 20 February 1982
Date of detention: 29 September 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 16 February 2023
Judge: Halina Bondal
Siarhei Dalivelia is a musician, an author of music and lyrics, and the leader of the Banderol rock band based in Minsk. He has a YouTube channel.
He was detained for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of the IT worker Andrei Zeltser and the KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.
On October 7, 2022, Judge Halina Bondal of the Viciebsk Regional Court found Dalivelia guilty of ‘inciting hatred’ under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
The political prisoner served his full term. On February 16, 2023, he was released from penal colony #3 in Vićba, Viciebsk region.
