Maria was the wife of Andrei Zeltser.
It is known that the woman collected signatures for Tikhаnovskaya in 2020. But, they say, she did not want to participate in protest actions because of her little son.
Maria was detained on September 28 , 2021 on suspicion of joint participation in the murder of an employee of the State Security Committee .
On September 28, employees of the State Security Committee of Belarus conducted searches and raids on residents participating in the 2020 protests in Minsk. Andrey Zeltser, refused to open the door to law enforcement officers (dressed in civilian clothes and did not have official insignia) and locked himself inside the apartment with his wife, armed with a hunting rifle. Both were videotaping at the same time. After breaking into the door, Zeltser opened fire with a hunting rifle at the employees of the State Security Committee who broke into the apartment. Dmitry Fedosyuk, an employee of the State Security Committee, was injured. On the same day, he died of his injuries in the hospital. Andrey Zeltser was shot by return fire.
On September 29, the Investigative Committee of Belarus opened a criminal case under the article on the murder of a person in connection with his official activities.
On August 26, 2022, it became known that Andrei Zeltser's widow Maria Uspenskaya was transferred from the pre-trial detention center to the «Novinki» psychiatric hospital.
Andrey Zeltser is Maria's second husband, from a previous marriage Maria has a schoolboy son.
compulsory treatment
According to the indictment, at the end of 2020, Natalya posted an offensive comment on one of the Telegram channels under a photograph of a man with text indicating that he was a local inspector of the Svetlogorsk District Department of Internal Affairs and was engaged in political persecution of protesters and was perjuring himself in court. And thus, according to the prosecutor, the accused publicly insulted a government official with an obscene and negative comment. In addition to the term, Natalya was awarded 700 rubles in compensation for moral damage.
November 24, 2021 The regional court satisfied the protest of the prosecutor's office and replaced the sentence with 2 years of restriction of freedom with sending to the IWOT.
At the beginning of December 2023, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
| 04.12.2021 | IUOT No. 51 Minsk from 02.12.2021 |
2 years of restriction of freedom with sending to the IUOT
On October 7, 2021, the verdict was announced to Svetlana Baranovskaya, who was charged with insulting representatives of the authorities - nine riot police officers. According to the prosecution, on March 1, 2021, she left a comment under a photo of nine OMON officers posted on the Punishers of Belarus telegram channel with the following content: “Here are the scum.”
Detained on December 14, 2021 with her daughter under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral . On March 31, she was convicted again. Final sentence - 3 years of restriction of liberty without referral
A resident of Baranovichi. Convicted for a comment in Odnoklassniki.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
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.
On September 13, 2020, at the March of Heroes in Brest at the intersection of Cosmonauts Boulevard and Masherov Avenue, protesters danced in a round dance, sang the songs “Mura” and “Three Charapakhs”, and danced.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom .
On September 29, 2021, she was detained in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
The woman was diagnosed with a tumor. On October 20, 2022, Marina was released from the Gomel SIZO-3.
1 year 7 months in prison.
On September 30, 2021, she was detained in Krupki in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of Dmitry Fedosyuk, an employee of the State Security Committee, and Andrei Zeltser, an IT specialist, in a Minsk apartment.
30.03.2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
was detained on September 29, 2021 in Miory in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment. In mid-September 2022, she was placed under house arrest.
At first it was reported that the political prisoner was charged under Articles 369 and 130 of the Criminal Code, but in the end she was tried for insulting Lukashenko (Article 368 of the Criminal Code) and a government official (Article 369 of the Criminal Code).
The political prisoner was handcuffed in the courtroom. In prison, she has about 4 months left to serve.
On May 02, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
| 22.02.2022 | 02/10/22 received a postcard with the return address Vitebsk SIZO 2 Kam.20 |
2 years in prison.
She was detained on September 30, 2021 in Minsk in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
She was released in September 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
was detained on September 29, 2021 in Minsk in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
2.5 years in prison
She was detained on September 29, 2021 in Minsk in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
On January 5, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
| 21.10.2022 | 20/10/2022: Melanie Vogel, member of French Senate, became Natalia's godmother via Libereco https://www.libereco.org/en/pinchuk-berasnieu-nikitsina/ |
| 04.06.2022 | Jun 2nd, 2022: Special Rapporter for Belarus will forward Natalia's case to the WGAD, Working Group of Arbitrary Detention. |
1 year 10 months in prison
was detained on September 29, 2021 in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
09.19.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Bogacheva was accused of commenting on a publication on the telegram channel "Punishers of Belarus" on January 15 about a senior assistant to the prosecutor Valeria Taratynko , who supported the prosecution in many politically motivated cases. Anna Bogacheva wrote: "Well, nothing, then she will work as an escort, sh**a!".
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral.
Initially, Sudnik was charged under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code for insulting Oleg Gaidukevich, however, due to the fact that the "crime" was committed on a call to 102, he was recognized as non-public and the charges were dropped.
Such conditions of “non-publicity” do not apply to Article 368 of the Criminal Code: the court considered that the policeman heard the insult and passed it on, which made it public. Therefore, Sudnik was found guilty that on January 6, 2021, she called the police twice and insulted Lukashenka .
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
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