Sergei was convicted of insulting two police officers by allegedly making negative comments about them on social media. He subsequently left Belarus.
In December 2024, a court hearing was held in absentia against him “on replacing the restriction of freedom without sending him to an open-type correctional facility.”
14.07.2020
Administrative court
Fine (30 basic values), court of the Bobruisk district and the city of Bobruisk, judge Tatiana Valerievna Tarabueva
18.05.2021
Trial outcome 18.05.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 2000 rubles of compensation, court of the Bobruisk district and the city of Bobruisk
~20.05.2021
Status change
Forced emigration
12.12.2024
Regime change trial 12.12.2024
unknown (trial in absentia), court of the Bobruisk district and the city of Bobruisk