Valeryi Pankratovich

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 18 October 1997

Date of detention: 5 October 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 9 February 2022

Date of release: 24 August 2023

Judge: Mikalai Talashka

Valery Pankratovich was arrested and taken into custody in a pre-trial detention center on charges of insulting the president.

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