Siarhei Bushyk

Sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment in penal colony

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 27 November 1984

Date of detention: 1 October 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 369 of the Criminal Code — Insulting a government official
  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Date of release: 20 February 2023

Judge: Sviatlana Charapanava

Cases: The Zeltser case

Siarhei Bushyk was detained for publishing comments on the Internet in connection with the deaths of the IT worker Andrei Zeltser and KGB agent Dzmitry Fedasiuk in Zeltser's flat in Minsk.

In early December 2022, Bushyk was transferred from Žodzina to remand prison #1 in Minsk.

On December 7, 2022, the case was considered in the Minsk City Court. The judge Sviatlana Charapanava found Bushyk guilty under Part 1 of Art. 130  ('Incitement of other hatred or enmity') and Art. 369 ('Insulting a government official')  of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.

 

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