According to the case file, Tamara Karavai in December 2022 via a messenger on a social network ok.ru posted slanderous information about Alexander Lukashenko.
At the hearing, Karavai fully admitted her guilt, but refused to testify.
It is known that Tamara Karavai has a dependent juvenile child.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
And the court also decided to apply compulsory safety measures and treatment for chronic alcoholism to the woman at the place of serving her sentence.
He was detained on January 9, 2023 as part of a criminal case initiated in Brest on the events of September 13, 2020, when during a protest people danced on the roadway (the so-called "dance case")..
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Dmitry was detained by employees of the State Security Committee on March 21, 2023.
He was accused of donating to organizations supporting Belarusians. Dmitry is accused of about 10 episodes.
He is a bodybuilder, a local-historian.
Earlier, the man was detained for participating in protest actions.
On March 16, 2023, he was arrested for distributing extremist materials and sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
The man was not released after his arrest and was transferred to a pre-trial detention center. The initial article of the charge was for insulting Lukashenko.
Editor-in-Chief of the «Regianalnaya Gazeta».
«Regianalnaya Gazeta» is an independent publication covering events in four districts of the Minsk region (Molodechno, Vileika, Myadel and Volozhin) and three districts of the Grodno region (Smorgon, Oshmyansky, Ostrovetsky).
In 2022, the materials of the site were recognized as extremist materials in the Republic of Belarus. law enforcement officials claim that the man will be tried for the published texts.
The man was charged for participating in the protests 2020.
He was detained together with his wife Elizabeth, but his wife was left at home on her own recognizance.
Prineslikes are parishioners of the Church «Novay zhizn».
Nikita Kovalenko is an evangelical believer and a connoisseur of religious architecture.
He was detained during numerous detentions in Fanipol. Employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption broke into Kovalenko's apartment and conducted a search, during which the man's personal computer and phone were seized. A criminal case was opened against Nikita, but it is not known what he is charged with.
Nikita Kovalenko is a believer of one of the Minsk Baptist churches and one of the best experts on the religious architecture of Belarus of the XVI century. Recently, he worked as a developer in the IT field. The man had previously been detained during protests in 2020.
Orthodox Christian, Bachelor of Theology.
Law enforcement officers came to his place of work, a search was conducted at his place of residence.
2 years in prison
Famous Orthodox Homel resident Alexander Tarasenko, former hieromonk of the Gomel St. Nicholas Monastery.
In the video of the Interior Ministry employees, Tarasenko admits that he posted an insulting post to the president on his facebook.com.
Tarasenko works as a long-distance truck driver.
Yuri is 58 years old.
The prosecutor asked him for 1.5 years of imprisonment.
Yaroslav Kazakevich, a 27 year old resident of Orsha, accused of facilitating extremist activities.
According to the case materials, on December 8, 2022, the accused made a video file using a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone at the railway station «Orsha-Tsentralnaya», on which an echelon with Russian military equipment was recorded. Then Kazakevich, being in the carriage of a train of regional lines, distributed through the Internet the named video file in the Telegram channel, the information products of which had previously been recognized by the court as extremist materials.
On December 9, 2022, Yaroslav was detained by police officers and arrested by the Orsha district court for 15 days for the production and distribution of extremist materials. He was never released again.
On August 10, 2020, during the protests, Alexey was driving in his car in Minsk in the area «Belaya Vezha». At the intersection, the man saw members of the special purpose police squad, who, looking for protesters, began to brutally detain car drivers: shoot and break windows in cars. Alexey, not expecting his detention, drove forward, where traffic police officers were just passing. Not noticing the official car, Alexey moved into its row. At the time of the maneuver, the traffic police car had already stopped, and the man went on about his business. In this action, the court saw interference in the activities of an employee of the internal affairs body (Article 365 of the Criminal Code).
At the same time and in the same place, there was allegedly a traffic police officer Mosenza, who testified at the end of December 2022, allegedly Alexey wanted to shoot him down then. For this, the man was charged with Article 364 of the Criminal Code and taken into custody.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to the prosecution, at the end of October 2022, in a group supporting the current government, the 64 year old chairman of one of the garage-building cooperatives of Gomel, Alexander Rumko, incited hostility against police officers and glorified collaborators. The Homel resident posted all his comments, including slandering Lukashenka, on a social network ok.ru .
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Vyacheslav was convicted for insulting comments towards Lukashenko and police officers on Facebook.
It became known about the verdict from a video on State TV. In it, Prosecutor Pavel Kurpenich said that Vyacheslav was held in custody before the trial, and during the trial he fully admitted guilt.
Vyacheslav Kobrin is 58 years old. The man is married, enjoys fishing.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Initially, Vladislav was detained in the administrative case 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for 15 days, during which he was charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus . A photo from marches in Minsk was found on his phone.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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