Viktar Dzibrou

sentenced to 2 1/2 years of imprisonment

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 26 January 1997

Date of detention: 5 August 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities

Sentence: 2 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 3 March 2023

Date of release: 4 September 2024

Judge: Ihar Ziamtsou

Notes: Pardon / amnesty

Viktar Dzibrou was detained in early August 2022 for a comment in which he allegedly insulted Aliaksandar Lukashenka. A criminal case under Article 368 of the Criminal Code (‘insult to the president’) was brought against him.

On November 29, 2022, the Mahilioŭ Regional Court considered the case in a closed-door trial. Dzibrou was eventually tried under Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code for “promoting extremist activities”, according to human rights defenders. On December 2, Judge Ihar Ziamtsou sentenced him to two and a half years of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

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