Arrested on July 15, 2021. A programmer from Minsk, convicted 7 times under the administrative article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities) because he and his wife forwarded messages to each other from Telegram channels.
In total, the man received 127 days of arrest. Also under this article, his wife Anastasia is serving another administrative arrest.
He was detained for participating in a coupling at protests. Was calculated from the photo.
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.
sound engineer from the Theater for Young Spectators. The son of a famous culturologist, teacher of the Academy of Arts Vadim Saleev. He was detained on September 14, 2021.
3 years restriction of liberty in an open facility
The person involved in the criminal case initiated under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (Organization or active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order) on protests in Grodno.
2 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution
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
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 .
Author of the "Adveku" project. The man was engaged in the search for ancestors in Belarus, genealogical research, genealogy, search in the archives. Yevhen was detained on September 8, 2021 after a search in his house. The reason for the detention was a photograph dated August 9, 2020, where he and several other people during a rally on the stele are at a pedestrian crossing at a traffic light. Yevgeny is on trial for group actions that grossly violate public order.
3 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution
was detained on July 27, 2021 near his home for an offensive comment about the prosecutor.
It is also known that Vadim wrote a book about the protests.
By absorbing a less severe punishment into a more severe one, on October 29, 2021, the political prisoner was finally sentenced to restriction of freedom and sent to an open correctional facility for a period of three years. Vadim Gil was released from custody in the courtroom while he appealed the verdict.
Vadim left Belarus.
3 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
Director of an online store of musical instruments and recently fired musician of the Khoroshki ensemble. The reason for the dismissal was his civic position. Dmitry refused to participate in the concerts that the Ministry of Culture organized on the stage of the Kupala Theater, as well as in official ones.
He is accused of organizing an "underground printing house" where unregistered newspapers and leaflets were produced. After a search of the apartment, absolutely all the money disappeared, including the proceeds from the recent sale of the car. Now Dmitry's family (wife and 2 small children) is left without a livelihood.
Scenographer, collaborates with the cultural center "Korpus". He was detained on September 2 after a search in the "Korpus". After an administrative arrest for 10 days, he was not released, but was already detained on a criminal case for participating in the August 2020 protests.
3 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to the IUOT
DJ from Minsk (Papa Bo), art manager, collaborates with the cultural center "Korpus". He was detained on September 2 after a search in the "Korpus". After an administrative arrest for 10 days, he was not released, but was already detained on a criminal case for participating in the August 2020 protests.
3 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to the IUOT
A resident of Minsk, who was detained on August 26, 2021 as part of a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order.
3 years of restriction of freedom .
| 08.10.2021 | Good day! Everything is good with Vital. You are no longer in Belarus. |
3 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to the IUOT ("chemistry")
Vitaly Kovalenko explained in court that he was at home with his family in the morning when he heard his wife's cry from the corridor: “Vitaly, help!”. The accused ran out, saw that the son was in the corridor in front of the door, crying and shouting: “Daddy!”, And the wife was in the vestibule and shouting that it was necessary to close the front door. Vitaly saw at least four men in tracksuits and masks, was in a state of shock from what was happening and thought that bandits or alcoholics were breaking into his apartment: the policemen had no identification marks. Someone held the door by the handle, for some time it was pulled between Vitaly and the unknown, until the accused heard a cry: “Hand! Fingers!". Then Kovalenko let go of the door, after which it closed easily. Prior to this outcry, the accused heard only swearing from behind the door from those who broke into his apartment, no one introduced themselves and did not say that they were from the police. Vitaly did not see his hands and fingers, he did not feel that he could break them with the door, but he admitted that this could have happened.
Kovalenko noted that if he knew right away that they were policemen, then this situation would not have happened at all. He never had problems with the police, there was no reason to be afraid of employees.
As a result, the judge found Vitaly Kovalenko guilty and punished him with three years of “chemistry”, and also decided to recover from him 3,000 rubles in compensation in favor of the victim.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to open institutions
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