68-year-old Boris Vitko was accused of writing an offensive comment regarding judge Nikolai Kmita on September 30, 2021, in the Lyakhovichi 97 telegram channel.
Court verdict 01/20/2023: 2 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
At the end of May 2023, it became known that Boris was detained again. This was reported by the pro-government telegram channel. Riot police officers in bulletproof vests with shotguns detained a man on the territory of a private house. In the published video, Boris says that he was detained on suspicion of insulting Lukashenko (Article 368 of the Criminal Code). A search was conducted at the place of residence in the village of Medvedichi, Lyakhovichi district.
Later, human rights activists learned that for some time Boris Vitko was held in the Lyakhovichi temporary detention center, then transferred to the Baranovichi pre-trial detention center. He is now in pre-trial detention center No. 7 in Brest awaiting trial. In November 2023, Boris was added to the list of terrorists. The trial took place in early January 2024.
Boris has heart problems and must constantly take medication.
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The man was accused of making a repost on his page on the social network VKontakte on August 23 with an image and someone else’s comment about an employee of the Baranovichi District Department of Internal Affairs. They sentenced him to 2 years of chemotherapy and 1000 rubles in moral compensation. The sentence came into force on July 27. Since August 16, he has been in the IUOT in Vitebsk.
Released on January 11, 2022 due to the amnesty law on December 7, 2021.
In April 2024, he was detained again for his participation in the 2020 protests.
| 19.08.2021 | The Moscow Court of Brest, on appeal, admitted that there was simply a repost of the picture and without publication by the accused. But he left everything unchanged. |
| 09.06.2021 | TDF Sizo 6 Baranovichi from April 8 to May 25, 2021 |
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
According to the prosecution , on November 5, 2022, the telegram channel “Belarus beyond the Moscow Ring Road” published a video of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with its signature. In that video, teachers and cadets of the Academy read Ekaterina Dovlatova’s poems “It’s not easy for men.” And 20 minutes after the publication of such a post, Fedoruk left a comment under it, with which (according to the prosecution) he publicly insulted women. Two teachers from the video filed a claim against Fedoruk “for compensation for moral damage” for 2,000 rubles each.
The prosecutor proposed to punish Alexander Fedoruk with 2 years of “chemistry” (restricted freedom with a transfer to an open correctional facility. On January 15, 2024, the judge announced the verdict. What it turned out to be is still unknown.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom in an open correctional facility
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
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
According to the prosecution , on February 13, 2023, Igor Svirida, while in the Compulsory Enforcement Department (COI), “... provided a department employee with a handwritten explanation of the reasons for non-payment of fines imposed by the court for committing various administrative offenses, in which he deliberately and publicly wrote the text, in the content of which, in an offensive form, he expressed a negative assessment of the president’s personality, presented in the form of an obscene form of speech expression...”
On the same day, when a squad of employees of the Security Department was called to the enforcement department to detain him, he again publicly insulted A.G. Lukashenko. The investigation claims that Igor Svirida was allegedly intoxicated in the premises of the OPI.
During the court hearing, he partially admitted his guilt.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 upon expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The reason for the criminal case was a video recorded by Yuri in the Tik Tok. According to Yuri's explanations, on October 5, 2022, he called the local district police officer Dmitry Tiunov to help resolve a family conflict. The district police officer promised to come, but did not do it. On emotions (and being drunk), Yuri recorded a video where he said that the police were working poorly, and insulted Tiunov.
Released upon expiration of sentence.
3 months of arrest.
According to the prosecution’s position , Stepanyuk was detained at 01:50 at night under Article 24.4 of the Administrative Code, he was taken in a police car to the police department, and on the way to the police station, Stepanyuk spoke insultingly about the police and Alexander Lukashenko using profanity, everything was recorded on the video recorder. Andrei Stepanyuk made a full admission of guilt at the trial. During the investigation, he identified himself on video recordings. As aggravating circumstances, they are asked to take into account a recent conviction under Article 149 of the Criminal Code, and as a mitigating circumstance - the presence of a dependent small child.
On 02/03/2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
On July 4, 2022, on VKontakte, in the group “[Suvorov Grad 5.0] Kobrin”, she left an insulting comment about Lukashenko A.G., which, according to the prosecution, was offensive.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
On the night of February 21-22, 2022, Pavel spray-painted several inscriptions around Brest: at a public transport stop he wrote “Long live Belarus”; on the building of the stronghold of the police in the microdistrict "Kovalevo" wrote "ACAB"; wrote an obscene phrase on the balcony and facade of another building. Pavel was arrested and taken into custody.
Released after expiration of sentence
3 months of arrest
According to investigators, Oleg left graffiti on the walls. One inscription was on the facade of the house on GOBK Street in Brest, the second one was at a public transport stop. These inscriptions turned out to be “Stop Lukashenka” and “Stop Luka” .
3 months of arrest .
According to the investigation , on the night of January 21-22, 2022, young people were resting and drinking. Once at the Brest store "Hit!" (on Moskovskaya street 342), we saw the state flag there. Khomichuk tried to pluck it, but it didn't work the first time. Then Murashkin lifted his comrade, and the flag was in his hands (at the same time, the pole was broken). The guys didn’t tear the flag itself, they didn’t do anything with it - they just brought it home to Khomichuk and set it upright. Then they went to friends.
3 months of arrest
According to the investigation , on the night of January 21-22, 2022, young people were resting and drinking. Once at the Brest store "Hit!" (on Moskovskaya street 342), we saw the state flag there. Khomichuk tried to pluck it, but it didn't work the first time. Then Murashkin lifted his comrade, and the flag was in his hands (at the same time, the pole was broken). The guys didn’t tear the flag itself, they didn’t do anything with it - they just brought it home to Khomichuk and set it upright. Then they went to friends.
3 months of arrest
A resident of the Brest region was detained in a criminal case for "financing protests", the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . The 23-year-old native of Drogichin received donations on the card and from August 2020 to January 2021 helped pay fines to protesters.
was detained on October 1, 2021 in Brest 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 the first half of March 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
2 years in prison .
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