Valeryi Sivuk

sentenced to 1 1/2 years of imprisonment

Date of birth: 26 December 1968

Date of detention: 18 August 2022

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 1 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 23 January 2023

Prison: Penal colony No. 3

Valeryi Sivuk was convicted of ‘insulting’ and ‘slandering the president’ under Part 1 of Article 368 and Article 188 of the Criminal Code and sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment in a penal colony.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 3. 211322, Viciebsk region, Vićba

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