Military analyst Egor Lebedk was awarded 15 days of administrative arrest under Article 24.3 of the Administrative Code. After a day, Yegor did not come out and was detained on a criminal case of promoting extremist activities for comments for Euroradio.
In October 2022, channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus published the news that another criminal case was opened against Egor on the basis of repetition, and noted that each interview by an extremist forms a separate crime.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
3 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
According to the case file, in September 2021, Sergey Tsigib was flipping through a news feed on a social network and saw a video: «A cop-policeman who will receive 2 life sentences». He put a like, as a result of which the video was already displayed on Tsigib's personal page in ok.ru. It is worth noting that Tsigib himself has never taken part in protest actions, has not been detained on political administrative matters.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Dmitry was accused of sending photos and videos of military equipment with comments to the «Nexta» chat-bot in a telegram.
On February 12, 2022, he sent a video showing an unmarked plane flying at night, and he made a similar video on February 27. On March 3, Dmitry took off a tanker truck with the identification mark «V». On March 17, he sent a photo and video where something was allegedly launched from Baranovichi towards Ukraine.
None of these materials, as well as textual information, have been published in the «Nexta» channels.
2. 5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was convicted for posting "offensive" photographs of the national flag of the Republic of Belarus and comments about it on the Internet in November 2021.
He served his sentence in IK-22, and was transferred to another correctional facility in December 2023. The location is being specified.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Detained in the winter of 2022. The man is accused that in September last year, being in Zhlobin, in vk.com under the message about a fatal shootout between Fedosyuk, an employee of the State Security Committee, and Andrei Zeltser, an IT specialist, he left the following comment: «The people have opened a count». Subsequently, this comment was interpreted as a call to fight with law enforcement agencies. Previously, he was convicted several times for drug trafficking.
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
When they came to search him, he was at home with his mother. When people in civilian clothes attacked him, he was asleep and when he woke up, pushed one of the law enforcement officers. After that, Andrei was severely beaten.
Convicted of participating in protest actions 2020.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Andrey was detained by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption for posting extremist materials on his page vk.com. Andrey published a video of Lukashenko taking the oath in 1994 under a white-red-white flag.
He was convicted for participating in the Grodno Marches and comments in the chat.
The man did not admit guilt, but confirmed only the fact of writing comments on August 11 and 12, 2020. The man's participation in the Grodno Marches was not confirmed after watching videos from events in the city.
It became known that a laboratory and forensic medical examination was carried out in June 2022. She confirmed Andrey's mental illness. However, he was convicted anyway, and also included in the list of individuals and organizations involved in terrorist activities.
In August 2023, she was transferred to the prison regime.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
For the first time, Alexander Petushkov was detained in January 2022, after which the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs published a video with him. The reason for the detention was his comments about the events in Kazakhstan.
Alexander was detained again in April 2022. The reason for the initiation of a criminal case were reposts and comments with calls for a strike, the shutdown of enterprises, and the renewal of protests. He also offered to remove the shoulder straps to law enforcement officers and generals. In relation to Lukashenko, he used the words «usurper» and «illegitimate».
7,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
The trial was held behind closed doors, convicted of comments in social networks.
The prosecutor filed an appeal to replace the measure of restriction of freedom. By the decision of the Supreme Court on 25.11, the sentence was changed to restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the prosecution version, from July 15 to December 27, 2021, he posted comments under publications in chats recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus, where he insulted Lukashenko and other government officials and their relatives, and also left threats against officials performing their official duties.
The publications contained messages related to the abuse of the National Anthem of the Republic of Belarus and the National Flag of the Republic of Belarus.
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Detained in the case of «railway partisans».
It is known that the man lives in the village of Khodakovo, he has a small child.
During the arrest, he was shot through the knee joints.
The family believes that Vitaly has nothing to do with the articles, and connects the detention with the revenge of a local judge, as well as the fact that Vitaly previously had a criminal record.
Details of the case are unknown.
16 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime and 11 100 BYN penalty.
According to the charge, Ivan gave the administrators of the telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus information about the personal life of a close relative of a police officer. The collection and dissemination of this information without permission led to harm to the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the victim.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted for messages in the chat «Grodno dlia zhizni» with calls for direct action actions, as well as about the manufacture of Molotov cocktails. He pleaded guilty at the trial, but refused to testify.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with reinforced regime.
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