Siarhei Khavanski

sentenced to 2 years of restricted freedom

Date of birth: 25 April 1972

Date of detention: 7 March 2021

Charges indicted:

Art. 368 of the Criminal Code β€” Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")

Prison sentence start date: 7 March 2021

Date of release: 6 March 2023

Siarhei Khavanski is a resident of Hrodna sentenced in January 2021 to two years of restricted freedom in an open correctional facility under Art. 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting the president).

According to the indictment, on April 1, 2020, Siarhei Khavanski posted an comment insulting Lukashenka on the website s13.ru.

On March 7, 2021, he began serving his sentence in an open correctional facility in Krupki.

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