Vital Kirnoha
Date of birth: 7 July 1980
Date of detention: 24 February 2022
Charges indicted:
Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
Sentence: 2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Prison sentence start date: 21 March 2023
Judge: Maksim Trusevich
Prison: Penal colony No. 15
Vital Kirnoha was detained on February 24, 2022, in a criminal case brought under two articles of the Criminal Code: Article 342 (‘active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order’) and Article 368 (‘insulting the president’).