Pavel was found guilty of leaving a comment in the telegram chats "Punishers" and "Partizans" on November 8, 2020 in the direction of an employee of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, Lieutenant Colonel Bartynsky. The comment contained a non-normative form of expression. Also on November 25, 2020, in the Punishers telegram chat, he left an insulting comment in the direction of Alexander Matskevich, commander of the first platoon of the operational company of the OMON ATS of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee.
Pavel Makarenko pleaded guilty. He said that he did not exactly remember those events, since a lot of time had passed. However, he said he allegedly left the comments "out of emotion".
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral.
Cleaner of the streets of one of the KUP. Their joint photo was posted on Odnoklassniki with the caption: “THIS IS WE used a chokehold against civilians in Pruzhany. Left: juvenile inspector Tarasevich. Right: district police inspector Kolyada. Elena commented on this post. For which she was convicted.
1 year of restriction of liberty without a referral
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
The first time Alexander was convicted for a comment on social networks. A new case was opened for a November 2020 comment on the Punishers of Belarus telegram channel under a post about police ensign of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Brest Diana Khalabuda. The man pleaded not guilty at trial.
First sentence: 2 years of restriction of liberty without referral.
Second sentence: 2.5 years of restriction of liberty without referral.
Anarchist. During a search, several anarchist flags and literature were found on him .
| 29.08.2022 | 03/21/2022 was registered as prone to extremism. On August 18, 2022, he was registered with a penitentiary institution. |
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Inhabitant of Zelva. Master of sports in handball and children's handball coach. Convicted for reposting cartoons about Lukashenka on the social network Vkontakte.
5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
According to the materials of the prosecution, in the evening of March 4, 2022, Olga Kovaleva, using a pink aerosol can, applied several anti-war inscriptions "X ... war" on the walls of residential buildings, heating networks and in the entrance. She photographed some of them. In total, five cases of inscriptions were recorded, which caused damage to the city's housing and communal services for a total of 161 rubles. At the time of the trial, the defendant fully reimbursed this amount.
A fine of 100 basic units (3,200 rubles).
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
An employee of the Brø bakery was detained after the security forces arrived at the place of work. The next day, a "repentant video" appeared with Denis on pro-government telegram channels.
3.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Detained for participating in protests. As evidence, the prosecution presented two photographs of a Minsk woman, in which she stood on the road during protest marches.
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
According to the investigation-prosecutors-judges, the criminal act happened on 09/13/2020, when in Brest, to the music from the speakers, people danced at the intersection until they were dispersed by a water cannon. The atmosphere of that protest action was described by the persons involved in the "round dance" case on other courts as "the atmosphere of a holiday."
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
1.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
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