Viktar Khimaroda

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 2 January 1985

Date of detention: 2 February 2022

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 1 year and 6 months

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 2 November 2022

Date of release: 15 April 2023

Judge: Siarhei Katser

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Viktar Khimaroda

Viktar Khimaroda was detained on February 2, 2022, as part of a criminal case for insulting the president (Article 368 of the Criminal Code). The case was initiated for burning an effigy of Lukashenka.

On 15 September 2022, the Maskoŭski District Court of Minsk sentenced Viktar to a year and a half of imprisonment.

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