Gennady was convicted in the summer of 2024 for "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open-type institution.
According to human rights activists, he was expected to be released in the winter of 2026.
Former political prisonersReleased
Gennady Vasilevich Gorbach
- Dissidentby since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by Dissidentby
- Viasna since
- Date of recognition as a political prisoner by the Viasna Human Rights Centre
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Sentences
Trial outcome 01.08.2024
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.Appeal 13.09.2024
the sentence was upheld.Involved in repression
Tatiana Victorovna Lavrenyuk
MoreJudges19 september 1988
- Place:
- Court of the Maskouski District of Brest
- Type:
- Court of First Instance
- Date:
- 01.08.2024
- In custody:
- from 05.06.2024 to 01.08.2024
from 07.10.2024 to ~13.01.2026 - Hometown:
- Bobrovichi
- Birthday:
- 03.04.1978
- Was held in:
- IUOT-36, 220039, Minsk, ul. Korotkevicha, 14
- Articles:
- Insulting the president
- Marks:
- Control of a person's financial transactions, restrictions on crossing the Belarusian border, a 5-year ban on military service and public office after the conviction is expunged, etc.
Timeline
- 2024
05.06.2024
Status change
In custody
08.06.2024
Status change
House arrest
01.08.2024
Trial outcome 01.08.2024
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, Court of the Maskouski District of Brest
01.08.2024
Status change
Released pending appeal
13.09.2024
Appeal 13.09.2024
the sentence was upheld, Brest Regional Court