Ruslan Asiatrou

sentenced to 2 1/2 years of imprisonment

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 25 May 1986

Date of detention: 29 September 2021

Charges indicted:

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

Sentence: 2 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 1 March 2023

Judge: Aliaksei Khlyshchankou

Cases: The Zeltser case

Ruslan Asiatrou was arrested on September 29, 2021, in a criminal case opened for comments on the Internet after death of KGB officer Dzmitryi Fedasiuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser.

He was charged under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Incitement to hatred).

On November 11, 2022, Judge Aliaksei Khlyshchankou of the Homieĺ regional court sentenced Asiatrou to two and a half years in a general-security penal colony.

 

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