Valeryi Klimenchanka

sentenced to 1 1/2 years of imprisonment

Date of birth: 28 April 1967

Date of detention: 24 March 2022

Charges indicted:

Art. 130 of the Criminal Code β€” Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 1 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 18 July 2023

Judge: Viktoryia Paliashchuk

Valeryi Klimenchanka

Valeryi Klimenchanka was convicted of ‘inciting hatred’ under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code in the Zeltser case and sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment in a penal colony.

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