Ihar Kazubau

Prisoner

Date of birth: 15 November 1968

Date of detention: 8 June 2023

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
  • Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 3 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Siarhei Bahinski

Prison: Penal colony No. 3

Groups: Activists

Cases: Protests in Homieĺ

Ihar Kazubau is charged with inciting hatred (Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code), slandering Aliaksandr Lukashenka (Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code) and insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus (Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code). On January 11, 2023, Homieĺ Regional Court began to consider his criminal case in a closed court session. 

Judge Siarhei Bahinski was appointed to hear the case. According to human rights activists, Kazubau was previously detained under the administrative article. On June 8, 2023, he was tried  for production, distribution or storage of extremist materials (Article 19.11 of the CAO).

It is not known what punishment the man was given.

Mail address: Penal colony No. 3. 211322, Viciebsk region, Vićba

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