Siarhei Kireyenka
sentenced to 3 1/2 years of imprisonment
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 24 July 1984
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: 3 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 2 February 2023
Date of release: 20 September 2024
Judge: Ruslan Tsaruk
Cases: The Zeltser case
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Siarhei Kireyenka was detained on September 29, 2021. He was charged with ‘inciting hatred’ and ‘insulting government official’ and taken into custody under Part 1 of Article 130 and Article 369 of the Criminal Code in the Zeltser case.
On September 23, 2022, the Homieĺ Regional Court commenced the trial of the political prisoner. On October 3, Judge Ruslan Tsaruk sentenced Kireyenka to three and a half years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.
