The three-year prison sentence of Dmitry Semchenko, a former correspondent of the Belarusian TV channel ONT, which is part of the presidential pool, has not changed. This has been reported area Supreme Court of the Republic.
As noted, with the appeal decision of the Criminal Cases Tribunal of the Supreme Court of Appeals on May 23, the decision of the Minsk City Court of March 23, 2023 in the criminal case did not change and the complaint was not satisfied.
Prior to that, the Minsk City Court sentenced the former journalist of the Belarusian state channel Semchenko to three years in prison.
In October 2022, the Belarusian Prosecutor General’s Office announced the detention of Semchenko. It was alleged that the suspect made broadcasts on a number of Telegram channels in 2020-2022 and made conversations to create public discontent against law enforcement.
Earlier it became known that the Supreme Court of Belarus. will consider the appeal Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was sentenced in absentia on 20 June.
Source: Gazeta
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