Aliaksandr Rumko

sentenced to 3 1/2 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 1 May 1958

Date of detention: 25 October 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
  • Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus
  • Art. 130-1 of the Criminal Code – Rehabilitation of Nazism

Sentence: 3 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Anatol Sotnikau

Aliaksandr Rumko was charged with slandering Lukashenka (Part 2 of Article 367), rehabilitating Nazism (Part 1 of Article 130-1), and 'inciting other social hatred or enmity' (Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code).

On March 14, 2023, the Homieĺ Regional Court, behind closed doors, sentenced Rumko to three years and six months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony. The trial began on March 9, 2023. Judge Anatol Sotnikau tried the case.

The court ruled to confiscate Rumko's cell phone as a means of committing the crime.

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