Convicted of insulting the commander of the riot police of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk City Executive Committee, D. Balaba, to restriction of freedom without direction. 13.10. 2023 the regime was replaced by imprisonment.
12/02/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
unknown months of imprisonment.
23-year-old Sergei was accused of tearing a red and green flag from a dormitory building in Grodno on the night of June 25 after drinking alcohol with friends and taking it with him, after which he threw the flag on the street near the building. The court valued the flag together with the tree at 35 rubles 70 kopecks. The man fully admitted his guilt.
Sergei was counted towards the term of his arrest for being held in custody. The court considered the imposed sentence to have been fully served and released the man in the courtroom.
3 months of arrest.
Father of political prisoner Nikita Zolotarev . Mikhail was detained on August 8, 2023 and sentenced to 15 days of arrest under Art. 19.11 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (distribution of extremist materials). After the first arrest, he was not released and was sentenced under the same article to another 15 days, and then to another 15.
On September 22, 2023, on the eve of his release after serving his third administrative arrest in a row, he was again found guilty of committing an offense and sent to a detention center for the fourth time.
On November 18, 2023, he was released from the temporary detention facility.
A resident of Loyivshchyna was detained at the end of August 2023 for insulting police officers while filming a video and then posting the video with insults on the Internet.
After the verdict, she was released in the courtroom due to the recalculation of the time spent in the pre-trial detention center.
6 months imprisonment in a colony.
According to the prosecution , Artur Panchenko, “acting jointly and in concert in a group of people from approximately 21:00 on August 9 to 1:30 on August 10, 2020, “stood on the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, clapped his hands, shouted loudly, whistled, shouted various slogans, while refusing to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”
In Zhlobin, according to the investigation, on the day of the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus on August 9, 2020, at about 10 p.m., an aggressive crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered in the area of the city square.
Arthur served under contract in a military unit as a senior fire rescuer of the military fire protection and rescue team in Zhlobin.
3 months of arrest in a guardhouse
According to the prosecution, after viewing a photograph posted in the public domain on Odnoklassniki with fixed text, where the honor and dignity of Lukashenko’s personality was humiliated in an indecent form and he was accused of committing a particularly serious crime (murder), Kozlovskaya posted the photograph on her page on the same social network, open for free viewing and copying to an unlimited circle of readers.
In court, Olga said that she sent a letter to Alexander Lukashenko, in which she apologized to him.
According to human rights activists, she was released in December 2023 upon expiration of her sentence.
6 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Yegor was accused of tearing down the flag from the Euroopt store on the night of July 2-3. As the guy explained, he was drunk, walking with friends. He saw the flag, jumped up, grabbed a tree. The flagpole suddenly broke, its remnants were left hanging on the wall. He and his friends left the scene. On July 3, 2023, Yegor was detained by the police and placed in pre-trial detention. At the trial, the prosecutor announced the amount of "damage" from Zhukov's actions: 21 rubles.
3 months of arrest
The man was accused of writing a telegram comment about a certain Minister of Education of the Republic of Belarus on June 23, 2022. In the commentary, the examination found a “negative assessment” of the minister, expressed “in a non-standard form.”
10/06/2023 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 months of arrest
According to the prosecution , Andrei Kholupko, using a mobile phone on the Odnoklassniki social network, in 2020, 2021 and 2023, put four likes on caricatured images of Alexander Lukashenko, in which he was shown as a clown, a monkey, and also together with Vladimir Putin in the pit, thereby publicly, in the public domain, insulted the president.
At the trial, Kholupko indicated that by liking he did not think that this was an insult, he added that no one paid him money for this and he acted impulsively.
On February 24, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Sergei is 37 years old. Has a minor daughter. Presumably he was detained on 06/08/2023.
According to the indictment , Sergei Korsak on his page on the Odnoklassniki social network several times posted an image with text “defaming the honor and dignity” of Lukashenko.
On October 20, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, on March 22, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Evgeniy’s “crime,” according to the prosecution, is that in April 2022, on the Odnoklassniki social network, a man gave a “class” reaction to the publication of the group “STOP LUKA.” After the “class” reaction, this post appeared on Bilobrovko’s page. With this, according to the prosecution, the man publicly insulted A. Lukashenko.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in early spring 2024 upon expiration of his sentence.
1 year in prison
Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison
Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison.
3 months of arrest
Convicted for participating in 2020 protests.
On July 4, 2023, an appeal hearing was held, the verdict entered into force.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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