Uladzimir Pradkin
sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment
Date of birth: 30 April 1967
Date of detention: 9 December 2021
Charges indicted:
Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Aliaksandr Piskunou
Uladzimir Pradkin was sentenced to three years of imprisonment for ‘inciting hatred’ and ‘suicide advocacy’ under Part 1 of Article 130 and Part 1 of Article 342-1 of the Criminal Code.
The basis for the accusations was Pradkin’s photos from a film shooting in the uniform of a German army officer that he had posted on a social network; a post on a social network with the memoirs of a German general justifying Nazism; and a comment in which Pradkin offered to inform those who wished to do so of ways to commit suicide. The defendant explained the posting of the memoirs by his interest in history and excuses for the crimes of Nazism; he claimed a joke his comment on suicide.
