Anatol Yaskevich
sentenced to 4 1/2 years of imprisonment
Prisoner
Date of birth: 21 January 1987
Date of detention: 15 May 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus
- Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
Sentence: 4 1/2 years
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Judge: Ihar Ziamtsou
Prison: Penal colony No. 1
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Anatol Yaskevich was convicted under Part1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code (incitement of hatred) for posting on a social network and Tik-Tok video messages with the news about the crash of a military plane in Baranavičy and the death of two pilots and under Part 2 of Art 368 of the Criminal Code for insulting in his video messages Mr. Aliaksandr Lukashenka and sentenced to 4.5 years of imprisonment s in a penal colony.
