Minsk: a man received a term for insulting Lukashenko in Instagram

Court in Minsk sentenced a man to one and a half years to the colony for violation of public order and insult to the President of Belarus, reported on Thursday in the press service of the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office.

“The prosecutor’s office of the factory district of Minsk supported the state prosecution in a criminal case against a previously N. N., which is incriminated: active participation in group actions, roughly violating public order and conjugate disobedience to the legal requirements of the authorities that caused a violation of transport and enterprises; public insult to the President of the Republic of Belarus, “the press service says.

It is noted that in August 2020 the accused blocked the traffic movement, ignored the legal requirements of law enforcement officers. In addition, he posted a video recorded in Instagram, which contained “offensive to the head of state statement.” “The court of the factory district of Minsk decided the conviction … N. was sentenceded in the form of imprisonment for a period of 1 year 6 months with serving in a correctional colony in the conditions of general regime. The sentence into legal force did not enter, it may be appealed and appealed in appeal. “- pointed out in the Prosecutor General’s Office.