Previously, he was brought to administrative responsibility for participating in protests.
According to the investigation, from September 2021 to January 2022, Vasily posted messages insulting government officials, including senior officials of the Republic of Belarus, in destructive Telegram channels.
He also expressed threats of violence against employees of the law enforcement and judicial systems, while publicly humiliating their honor and dignity. In addition, the man called on citizens to take action aimed at organizing mass unrest. In extremist Telegram channels, he looked for people ready to commit “crimes,” but did not complete his intention, as he was detained by law enforcement officers.
Monetary compensation for moral damage in the total amount of 32,000 Belarusian rubles was also recovered from the accused in favor of the victims.
On January 31, 2023, another trial of a pensioner began in Dzerzhinsk. This time he was accused under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a representative of authority).
On February 13, 2023, the second verdict was announced.
On March 23, 2023, the Drogichinsky district court began to consider the case of a political prisoner under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, Vasily Demidovich was placed in the Drogichin temporary detention center.
In April, the political prisoner was transferred to Gomel pre-trial detention center-3 . On April 20, 2023, the Sovetsky District Court of Gomel began to consider another case of a pensioner. He is charged with Art. 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and Art. 391 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. On May 2, another verdict was handed down.
On May 5, 2023, the fifth trial of Demidovich will begin - the man is accused again under Art. 369 CC . The trial will take place in Pukhovichi, the judge is Olga Babuk .
The next meeting is scheduled for May 24, 2023 in Pukhovichi.
On July 5, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court considered the appeal of the political prisoner by judge Ruslan Tsaruk.
On August 23, 2023, the Nesvizh District Court heard the sixth criminal case against a political prisoner.
In Starye Dorogi, on October 19, 2023 , the seventh trial of Vasily will begin . He is charged under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official) and Art. 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting Lukashenko). The case will be considered by judge Natalya Zyk .
In total, Vasily was sentenced to 7 years in prison, while the result of the last two trials is still unknown.
Due to the fact that the political prisoner was included in the “list of terrorists”, he cannot make money transfers. In addition, Vasily has no relatives who could support him. Over the past year, he has gone through dozens of stages. Political prisoners are transported under difficult conditions, this leaves a very bad imprint on Vasily’s health.
On December 15, 2023, the trial of Vasily, which began in October, resumed in Starye Dorogi.
1) 6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
2) 1 year of imprisonment with a penalty of 1 110 BYN.
By partial addition of punishments, he was finally sentenced to 6,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
3) 2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
By partial addition, the pensioner was finally sentenced to 7 years in prison.
According to the materials of the prosecution, during 2021, Anna posted offensive comments to A.G. Lukashekno and other government representative and law enforcement agencies in several telegram channels. On July 10, 2023, Anna will be tried again under the article for "insulting".
In June 2023, Kondratenko was returned from the Gomel women's IK-4 to the Mogilev prison in order to be tried in the second criminal case. This time, she was charged with a comment on the Punishers of Belarus telegram channel in relation to Andrey Bagrayonok, an inspector of the traffic police of the Svetlogorsk District Department of Internal Affairs. A post about him appeared on September 27, 2021, on September 28, Kondratenko left a comment.
The second sentence to Anna is 1 year in prison and 50 basic fines.
By absorbing a less severe punishment with a more severe one, in the aggregate, Kondratenko remained the same term of 3 years in prison in a general regime colony. In both criminal cases, the woman now owes the state more than 5,000 Belarusian rubles.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
An employee of the «Baranovichi department of the Belarusian Railway», as well as the «Lida Locomotive Depot».
According to the case file, in the period from November 2020 to January 2022, the man posted messages in the communities of the vk.com social network containing insults and threats of violence against Lukashenko.
He also, in February 2022, posted messages aimed at inciting national and other social discord and hostility against the Russian military.
Trial outcome 19.08.2022: 4 years 6 months of imprisonment under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 18.10.2022: the sentence was upheld.
He's a taxi driver. There are two juvenile children in the family.
Convicted for comments from June 2020 to August 2020 in telegram chats.
9 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
On March 11, 2022, Evgeny was detained for insulting comments.
During the search, hashish was found in his possession. Evgeny said that he bought it for himself and his friend-colleague Yuri, with whom he had previously used it repeatedly.
The man was detained and placed in custody, charging him with articles for insulting four policemen, a judge and drug trafficking.
On September 27, 2022, an appeal hearing was held.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
The trial was held behind closed doors, the details of the case are unknown.
The media supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus reported that Mikhail joined the Kalinovsky regiment.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
A lawyer with 25 years of experience. Previously, he headed his own company «Braginets and Partners». Recently, he worked in the legal advice of the Dzerzhinsky district of Minsk.
After his detention at home, the man was taken to the Partisan police department to check for involvement in protest activities. From there, it was alleged in court, he tried to leave. This was the manifestation of disobedience.
A protocol was drawn up on Vitaly under Article 24.3 of the Administrative Code and he was arrested for 15 days. He was supposed to be released on the evening of June 7, but this did not happen.
Vitaly is the defender of lawyer Andrey Mochalov, against whom a criminal case was initiated.
The trial was held in closed regime.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Convicted for insulting, in the opinion of the prosecution, a comment left in the telegram channel in relation to an employee of the internal affairs.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
unknown years of imprisonment in a penal colony
The young man was accused of taking military equipment on his phone on February 27, March 1 and March 2, 2022 and transmitting these photos to the telegram channel.
He was detained before he reached the age of majority.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He's a Taxi Driver, a Red Cross volunteer.
Oleg is accused of posting three messages on the Internet that a plane was flying over Gomel, showing the time and geolocation. And then I added a video about the movement of Russian buses of the «PAZ» brand.
Oleg has a son. Before his arrest, he worked as a taxi driver, volunteered in several charitable organizations.
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Student of the Belarusian State Aviation Academy.
He was detained for, according to investigators, systematically providing information to the «Nexta» telegram channel.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He is an employee of the «Mozyr Oil Refinery». Vadim once worked at the «Mozyr oil refinery», and then left for Poland.
For the first time, employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption detained him right at home after returning to Belarus — for allegedly going to rallies in 2020, and after the war began, photographing military equipment and sending pictures to telegram channels.
According to human rights activists, when Vadim was detained, they beat him, seized his phone and spoiled his documents. After restoring the documents and re-obtaining a Polish visa, Mozyryanin went to the police station to find out the fate of the seized phone. There he was detained again and six protocols on administrative offenses were drawn up, and then a criminal case was opened under the article.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Investigators report that in August 2020, at some point, an SUV with foreign registration plates and tinted windows attracted the attention of police officers. When the policemen went to the car, the accused started reversing and deliberately ran over one of them, after which he fled the scene.
Traffic police officers pursued the accused, but the driver abandoned his car near the village of Antonovo, and he disappeared.
The video from the registrar of the traffic police official car shows a large gathering of police officers in full gear. The moment of hitting one of them is not visible.
The man was put on the wanted list and upon his return from Poland on May 5, 2022 in Baranovichi, he was detained and placed in custody.
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
The initial reason for the detention was the distribution of extremist materials as part of an administrative, politically motivated case.
During the arrest, the man was charged in a criminal case for numerous likes on Odnoklassniki.
On July 4, 2023, the appeal was considered. the prior agreement came into force.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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