unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
On December 26, 2023, the appeal was considered, the verdict came into force
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On February 27, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony
On January 16, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
2,5 years imprisonment in a colony
Graduate of BSUIR, EPAM
On February 2, 2024, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
5 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions.
According to the prosecution , Vladislav Muravsky repeatedly publicly insulted government officials in telegram channels and chats (“Punisher of Belarus”, “Chat-Partizan”, “my country Belarus”), and also disclosed their personal data.
The accused Vladislav, interrogated at the court hearing, pleaded not guilty, citing that he did not remember anything about his testimony and comments posted on the Internet in connection with his mental illness in the form of mixed personality disorder, after which he refused to give any explanations. His mother said in court that her son has a mental illness - mixed personality disorder. However, the expert's opinion refutes the presence of the influence of mental illness on the ability to remember events and information.
4 years of restriction of freedom with placement in an open institution.
First, in April 2023, he was detained under an administrative article for allegedly “propaganda or public display, production, distribution of Nazi symbols or paraphernalia.” After this, a criminal case was opened.
It is known that in March 2023, the man published a video in support of Ukraine on his TikTok account with just over a thousand subscribers, in which Lukashenko was also harshly criticized. The video is currently unavailable. It is known about the man that he is divorced and works as an auto mechanic.
2 years imprisonment in a colony
State TV reported details of the trials of two men (Vadim Sergeevich Borisov and Oleg Aleksandrovich Volk). The voice-over said that one of the men, on the evening of September 8, 2023, in the village of Novaya Mysh (Baranovichi district), drunkenly tore the state flag from the store, damaging the mount. He put the flag in his backpack and took it home. In the morning the police had already come for the man.
On January 19, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Borisov photographer who was detained on June 22, 2023. Security forces searched the house and took away computer equipment. After this, Zenkov was immediately taken to Minsk, where he was kept for some time in the temporary detention center on Akrestsin, and then transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1.
As BAJ wrote , the photographer was detained in July 2020. In September, police officers came to Zenkov to “warn him about the inadmissibility of violating the law.”
Alexander Zenkov has worked as a freelance photographer since 1998, collaborating with regional independent publications.
On April 16, 2024, Alexander had a hearing of his appeal.
3 years imprisonment in a colony
On 05.01.2024, the appeal was heard and the sentence came into force.
Trial outcome 30.10.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 05.01.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Pro-government telegram channels reported that the man was detained at the end of July in Grodno, when he was returning from abroad to Belarus in the summer, and that he allegedly wrote about 1,000 comments in “extremist” channels and chats.
Vyacheslav is a resident of Minsk, married, and was fond of paintball. It is reported that the security forces were able to find Chernetsky because he signed his telegram account with his real name and surname.
According to the prosecution , Vyacheslav posted comments on the TG channel “Real Belarus”. As the examination established, “in the text of the comments there is a negative evaluative language unit that has a non-normative form of speech expression addressed to Lukashenko and the President of the Russian Federation.”
2 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
In a confessional video on a pro-government channel, Alexander says that he was detained for sending a video of military equipment to a chat. At that time, he was allegedly scared, so he posted the video out of emotion. “In this chat there was a narrative that hostilities were about to begin between Belarus and Ukraine,” says the engineer.
The video shows screenshots from the chat. The explanation for the video with military equipment says that it is moving along the M1 highway towards Brest. It is unknown when this was filmed.
Alexander works as an energy engineer.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
In the video , Alexander says that he works as a karate trainer and was charged with making a video of military equipment and posting it on an “extremist” telegram channel. The detainee also said that in 2020 he hung ribbons on poles and signs and posted leaflets along the road.
On April 19, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
According to the prosecution , on May 17, 2022, Leonid Raichonok transferred $400 for body armor to Belarusian volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine. He made a second donation in the amount of $150 to the benefit of the “Prague Support Team” (an association of Belarusians in Prague who collect donations and use them to buy uniforms, sometimes for weapons accessories, for Belarusian volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine). The Brest resident’s actions were qualified as “financing citizens of the Republic of Belarus to participate on the territory of a foreign state in an armed formation of one of the warring parties, in armed conflicts, military operations.”
On December 12, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
6 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.
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