Uladzislau Kupryianau

engineer, sentenced to 5 years imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 21 September 1988

Date of detention: 7 August 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
  • Art. 352 of the Criminal Code — Illegal acquisition of computer information
  • Art. 203-1 of the Criminal Code — Illegal actions with respect to information about private life and personal data

Sentence: 5 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Judge: Mikalai Dolia

Cases: The Black Book of Belarus case

On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)

Uladzislau Kupryianau worked as an engineer at the Mahilioŭ City Electric Networks. He was arrested in early August 2022.

Kupryianau was accused of disclosing the residential addresses of government officials and law enforcement officers to the Black Book of Belarus Telegram channel in the fall of 2020.

He was charged under Part 3 of Article 352 (Illegal possession of computer information), Part 3 of Article 203-1 (Illegal actions regarding privacy information and personal data), and Part 3 of Article 130 (Inciting racial, national, religious or other social hatred or enmity) of the Criminal Code.

The political prisoner was transferred from remand prison #1 in Minsk to remand prison #3 in Homieĺ.

On February 24, 2023, the Homieĺ Regional Court started his trial. On April 13, Judge Mikalai Dolia found the political prisoner guilty of "inciting racial, national, religious or other social hatred or enmity committed by a group of persons" under Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to five years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.

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