Ekaterina was arrested on September 29, 2021, in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
At the end of January 2022, the girl was expelled in absentia from the Minsk State Linguistic University, and in February 2023, she was sentenced to imprisonment.
Ekaterina was released in the courtroom after the verdict was announced, as the time she spent in custody completely covered the sentence imposed by the court.
Kristina was convicted in a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
According to the indictment, on September 29, 2021, after learning of the deaths of Andrei Zeltser and KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk, Kristina left a comment in a Telegram chat: "My home is no longer my castle" and "There's nowhere to hide from these monsters." Investigators deemed these statements an insult to a government official, which was confirmed by a linguistic examination in court.
Trial outcome 28.07.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 50 basic values fine.
Nikita, a student at BNTU, was arrested and convicted under the article "desecration of state symbols." According to the prosecution, he was walking around Bobruisk in the fall, jumped up and tore off a flag that had been installed near a store. The flag, together with its fastening, fell to the ground, after which Nikita ran with it for about 20 meters, waving the flagpole. The next day, the flag was thrown out on the street.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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