Viktar Kalaur

Date of birth: 1 May 1977

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
  • art. 188 of the Criminal Code — Defamation

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Katsiaryna Hruda

Notes: Trials in absentia

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