Vital Kirnoha

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 7 July 1980

Date of detention: 24 February 2022

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
  • Art. 368 of the Criminal Code — Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 21 March 2023

Judge: Maksim Trusevich

Notes: Pardon / amnesty

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Vital Kirnoha was detained on February 24, 2022, in a criminal case brought under two articles of the Criminal Code: Article 342 (‘active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order’) and Article 368 (‘insulting the president’).

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