Viktar Lameka
in custody
Prisoner
Date of birth: 6 December 1968
Date of detention: 29 March 2023
Charges indicted:
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 3 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Natallia Stsiapanava
Prison: Penal colony No. 3
Groups: Activists, Businessmen
Notes: Health issues
Viktar Lameka is an entrepreneur from Zeĺva, Hrodna region. Previously, Viktar Lameka sued the tax office and defended entrepreneurs of the Hrodna region in court.
He was arrested on March 29, 2023, and a report was drawn up under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offences (Dissemination of extremist materials). Later, in the court building and detention center, two more reports were drawn up against him under the same article.
According to available information, the law enforces severely beat Viktar Lameka during the arrest. First, he was beaten in the minibus, and then in the building of the 9th Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. His leg was severely injured.
Viktar Lameka was charged under Article 367 of the Criminal Code (Defamation against the President of Belarus).
While he was in remand, his mother died.
In late April 2023, the political prisoner was transferred from prison #1 in Hrodna to remand prison #6 in Baranavičy, Brest region.
On August 31, 2023, the Zelvensky District Court found Viktar guilty and sentenced him to three years in in a general-security penal colony.
