Andrei Hapiyenka

sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 16 November 1982

Date of detention: 30 September 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 24 February 2023

Judge: Ruslan Tsaruk

Cases: The Zeltser case

Andrei Hapiyenka was detained in Homieĺ for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk.

At the end of September 2022, Judge Ruslan Tsaruk of the Homieĺ Regional Court convicted Hapiyenka of ‘incitement to social hatred’ (Article 130 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to 24 months of imprisonment in a general-security penal colony.

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