A well-known activist on Facebook, a supporter of Viktor Babariko, is charged with Article 368 of the Criminal Code (“Insulting the President”). The Mogilev resident faces up to four years in prison.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
| 27.09.2021 | Detained for 367 h2 registered prone to extremism |
3 years in a general regime colony
According to the prosecution, on August 25, 2020, “in one of the social networks, under a photo in uniform, the deputy head of the police department of the Kobrin district executive committee posted a comment that contradicts universal morality, established rules of communication between people, which is an abnormal form of speech expression, has a negative assessment of the victim.”
She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
Natalya was found guilty of commenting on the actions of a police lieutenant from the traffic police service from Kamenets (Brest region) Mikhalochkin in the telegram channel. During the investigation, Andropova said that she left a comment due to the fact that Mikhalochkin's father works at a school and raised his son profitably.
Tatyana was detained on January 19, 2021. Three days later she was released, and on June 3 she was detained again. From that moment until the trial, she was in custody.
According to the indictment, Tatyana Minina, from November 4 to December 22, 2020, posted insulting comments about the victims on the Punishers of Belarus telegram channel. 14 people were recognized as victims in the case: law enforcement officers Moroz, Borisik, Pityakov, Logunov, Strivets, Grib, Aleksa, Ivoshko, Yevlash, Marchenko, Goreglyad, Malinovsky, Shashko and judge Yulia Krepskaya. The first five victims came for consideration, the rest did not appear and filed an application for consideration of the case in their absence.
According to the prosecution, Olesya Ashmarina on January 14 and January 26 in the telegram channel “Baranovich-Yuzhny_chat” under the photo of the local head of the GOVD Aleksey Hetman left comments: “He testifies falsely in many administrative cases against peaceful demonstrators in the city of Baranovichi” and “I feel sorry for him, so young, and already the most famous fascist in the city of Baranovichi. But he can sit longer, many years of life ahead. The Baranovichi investigators qualified these comments as slander and insulting a representative of the authorities. Russian citizen.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
vocalist of the band IRDORATH. Nadezhda was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021 at a dacha near Minsk during the celebration of her birthday along with other musicians and guests of the holiday. Some of the people over the next two days were convicted on administrative cases of disobedience to the police.
On April 21, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
| 23.10.2021 | The period of detention was extended for another month for all detainees (6 people) in the case of the Irdorath group. |
2 years in a colony under general regime conditions
was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021 at a dacha near Minsk during the celebration of the birthday of IRDORATH vocalist Nadezhda Kalach along with musicians and other participants of the holiday.
On October 11, 2022, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
| 15.04.2022 | 10.04 Yuliya was transferred from PK-4 to Antoshkina and Gomel. |
In Ivatsevichi, Olga was convicted for comments in one of the telegram chats. She was charged with insulting a representative of the authorities, in this case, an employee of the Ivatsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, writes “First Region”. Among other things, the woman was charged with publishing “turd” emoticons, which she used to describe a police officer.
On February 9, 2022, the verdict was delivered in the second case. On April 8, 2022, an appeal was considered, the verdict was upheld. To the next 2 years, the house of chemistry added another 1 year, 50 basic fines and 1,000 rubles for moral damages.
Engaged in handicraft: cross-stitch, towels, pillow cases, bows, elastic bands, hairpins for girls. New orders are needed to work.
08/06/2021 convicted in Lida. She was on maternity leave. Previously, she worked in the Lida Regional Executive Committee as a senior inspector in the documentation support department. Two children.
On January 4, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
1.5 years in prison.
She was convicted in the "case of round dances " in Brest. She did not admit guilt. On September 13, 2020, at the March of Heroes in Brest, at the intersection of Cosmonauts Boulevard and Masherov Avenue, the protesters danced, sang the songs "Mura" and "Try charapakhi", and danced. They were dispersed by a water cannon.
2.5 years of "chemistry"
She was convicted in the "case of round dances " in Brest. She did not admit guilt. On September 13, at the March of Heroes in Brest, at the intersection of Cosmonauts Boulevard and Masherov Avenue, the protesters danced, sang the songs "Mura" and "Try charapakhi", and danced. They were dispersed by a water cannon.
2 years of "home chemistry"
2 years of "home chemistry"
According to the prosecution: on November 21, 2021, at about 10 a.m., several people, including Elina, went out onto the roadway of Veliky Gostinets Street in Molodechno and stretched out a poster of a "radical orientation" : "While there is lawlessness in the country, resistance is our duty", blocking traffic road transport. They were gone in less than a minute: when the "green" light came on for transport.
1 year of restriction of freedom without referral to a correctional institution ("home chemistry")
This was reported by the information service of the prosecutor's office of the Vitebsk region. According to the prosecution, on March 27, she deliberately made a video recording with verbal obscene text, which depicts traffic police officers. She posted the story in the public domain on her social media account, where it was viewed at least 120,000 times.
On July 19, a search was conducted in the apartment of Tatiana and her husband, after the search the spouses were detained. They are being held in the KGB pre-trial detention center.
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