Aliaksandr Smirnou

Prisoner

Date of detention: 15 July 2023

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 370 of the Criminal Code — Desecration of state symbols
  • Part 2 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code — Hooliganism committed by a group of persons

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Maksim Trusevich

Prosecutor: Г.

Notes: Foreign citizens

Aliaksandr Smirnou was convicted under Part 2 of Article 339 and Article 370 of the Criminal Code.

On September 8, 2023, he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment a general-security penal colony. 

 

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