Katsiaryna Kalybenka

sentenced to 3 1/2 years of restricted freedom

Prisoner

Date of birth: 8 June 1994

Date of detention: 10 January 2023

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 364 of the Criminal Code — Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies
  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official

Sentence: 3 1/2 years

Penalty: restricted freedom in an open penal facility ("khimiya")

Prison sentence start date: 10 January 2023

Prison: Open correctional facility No. 25

Godparent: Pina Picierno is Vice-President of the European Parliament and Italian member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats for Partito Democratico.

Katsiaryna Kalybenka was convicted under Articles 369 and 364 of the Criminal Code for a commentary towards an internal bodies officer posted on the Internet. She was sentenced to three years and six months of restricted freedom with a referral to an open-type penal facility.

Kalybenka was sent to serve her sentence in open-type penal colony #25 in Hrodna.

Mail address: Open correctional facility No. 25. 231707, Hrodna, vulica Lienina 12a

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