MINSK, 14 Sep. A court in Belarus sentenced a resident of the Brest region to one and a half years in prison for publicly insulting President Alexander Lukashenko and defamation, the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Brest region reported on Tuesday. and public insult to the President of the Republic of Belarus … The Lyakhovichi District Court found S. guilty of committing crimes provided for in part 1 of Article 367 and part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. correctional colony in a general regime, «- said in a statement on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the republic.
In Belarus, an oppositionist who injured himself in court faces 8.5 years , after which «under the image he wrote slanderous fabrications and insults to the President of the Republic of Belarus.» The press service indicated that the previously convicted and unemployed man admitted his guilt and repented, while explaining that he had succumbed to the influence of information from various social networks and messengers. The verdict did not enter into legal force, could be appealed and challenged on appeal.
The FSB confirmed information about the CIA's participation in the detention of Russians in Minsk After the presidential elections in Belarus on August 9, 2020, in which Lukashenko won for the sixth time, who, according to the CEC, received 80.1% of the vote, mass opposition protests began in the country. the suppression of which the security forces, among other things, used special means and special equipment. On February 11, the KGB of Belarus announced that the situation in the country had stabilized, the peak of the protests had passed, and their manifestations had practically disappeared. In Belarus, criminal cases have been initiated against a number of opposition leaders, including calls for the seizure of power, the creation of an extremist group, a conspiracy to seize state power by unconstitutional means, an attempted terrorist attack. At the end of July, Prosecutor General Andrei Shved said that within a year after the elections, more than 4.2 thousand «protest» criminal cases related to extremism and terrorism were initiated in the country.
