{"id":41477,"date":"2022-03-02T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/navahrudak-resident-who-tried-to-flee-the-country-sentenced-to-a-year-and-a-half-in-prison-for-insulting-lukasenka-and-abusing-state-symbols\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"navahrudak-resident-who-tried-to-flee-the-country-sentenced-to-a-year-and-a-half-in-prison-for-insulting-lukasenka-and-abusing-state-symbols","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/41477\/","title":{"rendered":"Navahrudak resident who tried to flee the country sentenced to a year and a half in prison for insulting Luka\u0161enka and abusing state symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>March 2, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> On March 2, Navahrudak District Court of Hrodna region found Dzmitry Su\u0161\u010dyk, a resident of Navahrudak, guilty under Article 370 (abuse of the state symbols) and Article 368 (insulting the president) of the Criminal Code.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Judge Ihar Vol\u010dak sentenced Su\u0161\u010dyk to one and a half years of imprisonment to be served in a penal colony, Viasna Human Rights Center reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Su\u0161\u010dyk was detained in November 2021. A &#8220;confession&#8221; video with him was posted on pro-government Telegram channels. Later, Su\u0161\u010dyk stated that he was tortured after his detention. In particular, he said that the law enforcers took him to the woods and beat him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A criminal case was opened against Su\u0161\u010dyk and he was released on his own recognizance. He was accused of commenting and reposting materials deemed extremist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Su\u0161\u010dyk was under house arrest from January 28 to February 16, 2022. On February 17, while trying to leave the country, the man was detained by the Russian border guards and handed over to the Belarusian law enforcers. Since February 17, Su\u0161\u010dyk has been held in the Homiel&#8217; pre-trial detention center No. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2, BPN. On March 2, Navahrudak District Court of Hrodna region found Dzmitry Su\u0161\u010dyk, a resident of Navahrudak, guilty under Article 370 (abuse of the state symbols) and Article 368 (insulting the president) of the Criminal Code. Judge Ihar Vol\u010dak sentenced Su\u0161\u010dyk to one and a half years of imprisonment to be served in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-41477","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Navahrudak resident who tried to flee the country sentenced to a year and a half in prison for insulting Luka\u0161enka and abusing state symbols | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 2, BPN. 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