Viktar Hrynko
Prisoner
Date of birth: 23 July 1986
Date of detention: 21 October 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Part 1 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code — Hooliganism
- Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group
- Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code — Promoting extremist activities
Sentence: unknown
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Vera Halaukova
Prison: Penal colony No. 17
Notes: War in Ukraine
Viktar Hrynko is a former employee of BelVEB Bank. He was convicted on June 15, 2023 by the Minsk City Court under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting Lukashenka), Part 2 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism), Part 2 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (promoting extremist activities), Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code (financing the activity of an extremist group). The case was considered by the judge Vera Halaukova.
Yury Nestsiarenka, Ihar Tsikach, Ihar Tsiaptseyeu, Uladzimir Savelyeu were convicted together with Viktar Hrynko on that day.
On September 14, 2023, the judge Edgar Martsirasyan heard an appeal against the sentences.
In early October 2022, unknown persons hung a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine on a power pole in the Maskoŭski district of the capital. In the course of operative searches, police officers detained six Minsk citizens, aged 34-36. One of them was Viktar.
It is known that the man was sentenced to imprisonment, but the place of confinement is unknown.
On October 20, 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs added Viktar to the "list of extremists".
