Uladzimir Astapchyk

Date of birth: 21 May 1992

Date of detention: 21 July 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 27 June 2023

Judge: Vera Halaukova

Prison: Penal colony No. 15

Uladzimir Astapchyk was detained on July 21, 2022, as part of a criminal case of ‘group actions grossly violating the public order’ (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).

He was placed in pre-trial detention.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 15. 213105, Mahilioŭ, Viejna, Slaŭharadskaja šaša 183

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