Uladzimir Adzinets
sentenced to 1 year of imprisonment
Date of birth: 10 April 1969
Date of detention: 6 January 2023
Charges indicted:
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 1 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Anatol Sotnikau
Uladzimir Adzinets is a driver at the communal housing services in Svietlahorsk, Homieĺ region. He was arrested at his workplace on January 6, 2023.
The Visana branch in Homieĺ reports that on June 5, 2023, in the Homieĺ Regional Court, Judge Anatol Sotnikau convicted Uladzimir Adzinets under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code ('Inciting racial, national, religious or other social hatred') and sentenced him to 12 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony, with confiscation of his cell phone.
