Political persecutions

One of the October evenings, someone tore off a red-green flag from a building in the city center and threw it into the trash. However, he was recorded by CCTV cameras and soon Polishchuk's identity was established.

A 72-year-old man was convicted for participating in protests, in which he “deliberately used violence in order to obstruct the lawful activities of an internal affairs officer for the protection of public order” against an riot policeman. I hit him in the face at least twice, the press service of the court clarifies. On the way to the police car, the man continued to resist, "inflicted at least one kick with his foot in the area of the victim's face." The Court notes that the riot policeman suffered bodily injuries, but they did not result in health problems or minor permanent disability.

Yekaterina Salevich was accused of deliberately publicly insulting a government official on the Slonim for Life telegram channel. Police officer of the OMON Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee, senior police sergeant Sergei Oskolkov, was recognized as the victim

According to the indictment, 16-year-old Oleksandr Nesteruk was on the porch of the rural House of Culture in the urban village of Antopol, deliberately and repeatedly grabbed and pulled the cloth and the staff of the flag installed on the front edge near the main entrance, as a result of which he deliberately tore off the red-green flag, destroying this is ancient.

According to the indictment, Maksim Smirnov on the morning of September 14, 2020, using his mobile phone, posted personal information about the commander of the Brest OMON Maksim Mikhovich on one of the regional telegram channels.

On charges, September 27, 2020 at the fountain on the street. Soviet in Brest, Zelenkov first tried to set fire to the national flag, and when this did not work, he began to tear it to pieces.

According to the indictment, on the morning of June 18, 2020, telegram user Koba [Dzmitry Ushatsky] posted an insulting message under the photo of Chemodanova in the Banda Luka telegram chat “based on political and ideological enmity related to the electoral campaign in the Republic of Belarus ”.

According to the prosecution, on December 5, 2020, Viktor Lagutin painted a red stripe at a bus stop in the village of Smogorovka in the Chervensky district, which "significantly reduced the aesthetic value of the bus stop."

From the materials of the investigation, it is known that on September 20, Deshchenya deliberately, using a telephone, posted a humiliating message using profanity in the group of the Radzima newspaper on VKontakte.

In September, Mitenkov commented in the VKontakte group about a publication about fines for drivers who sounded their horns in solidarity with protest rallies. The publication mentioned a specific traffic police inspector Alexander Kirkalov - he was recognized as a victim in the case.

According to the indictment, on September 24, 2020, at about 11:32 p.m., Kovalchuk, while in a public place in Dzerzhinsk, deliberately applied cynical inscriptions and a graphic drawing on the section of the concrete fence of the Amkodor-DOMZ PUE using an aerosol can.

According to investigators, on November 7, 2020, a young guy and a girl tore down the state flag along with the flagpole on Kuibyshev Street at night. Then they began to trample it with their feet, spit on it, and at the end they set fire to the flag with a flammable liquid. These actions were filmed on mobile phones by their acquaintances.