In November 2020, Elena took part in a medical protest at the 1st City Clinical Hospital, after which she was fined for participating in an unauthorized mass event. In March 2021, the doctor who worked at the children's clinic was fired.
In July 2021, she was convicted under the article "Insulting a government official", sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction and ordered to pay compensation to police officer Grushevsky.
In December of the same year, Elena was convicted again under the same article - for a comment addressed to the district police inspector of the Central District of Gomel, Artem Zhevnyak. The court again imposed a restriction of freedom and ordered her to pay a large compensation.
Trial outcome 08.07.2021
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 900 rubles of compensation.
Trial outcome 09.12.2021
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 4000 rubles of compensation.
Final verdict by partial addition:
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 4900 rubles of compensation.
According to the case materials, on March 5, 2021, Elena left an offensive comment under an article about Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Gennady Kazakevich using the Internet in the Telegram channel "Typical Belarus". She was sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction.
Trial outcome 08.07.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Vadim was convicted for participating in a peaceful protest - a march in support of political prisoners, which took place on October 4, 2020 in Minsk, and sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction.
Alexey, the former first deputy chairman of the board of Belgazprombank, was convicted in July 2021 as part of the "Babariko case" under the article "accepting a bribe" and sentenced to restriction of freedom without referral.
Nadezhda was found guilty of the fact that from November 9 to 23, 2020, she intentionally and in an indecent manner posted a comment under a YouTube video in which the traffic police in Bobruisk seized a car without reason, with a negative assessment of government officials - police major Oleg Banduro, senior lieutenant Drozd and junior lieutenant Anisichkov - with the content "They are recruiting idiots", which harms their honor and dignity.
Trial outcome 30.06.2021
1 year restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 900 rubles of compensation.
Tatyana was convicted for a comment left on August 14, 2020, on the social network Odnoklassniki under a photo of police officer Yuri Chernyshkov. According to the prosecution, she publicly insulted a government official in order to undermine the authority of state bodies. The examination considered her words a negative assessment. The court sentenced Tatyana to restricted freedom.
Trial outcome 29.06.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Tatyana was convicted for calling Vitaly Stasyukevich, deputy head of the public order protection department of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee Internal Affairs Directorate, a "hateful bastard" in the Grodno 97% Telegram channel. This statement was classified as an insult to a government official. Tatyana was sentenced to restriction of freedom without being sent to a correctional facility and was ordered to pay moral compensation to the "victim."
Trial outcome 29.06.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 2000 rubles of compensation.
Albert was convicted of insulting OMON officer Alexei Talyarenko "with the aim of damaging the authority of state power." According to the prosecution, on October 25, 2020, he left an offensive comment in the chat "Brest Vostok 97%". At the trial, he did not admit guilt, claiming that he did not publish the message, and his account was deleted.
Trial outcome 23.06.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 500 rubles of compensation.
Evgeny was convicted of publishing, according to the prosecution, offensive comments in one of the Telegram channels addressed to a judge from Brest.
In September 2021, the punishment in the form of restriction of freedom with referral to a correctional institution was replaced by “house arrest” as part of a pardon.
Tamara was convicted for a comment posted on the social network Odnoklassniki in February 2021. During a dispute with another user, she wrote: "And you are a louse on a comb if you like the schizoid speeches of a paranoid. Only a d... (a person with mental retardation - PV) like you can listen to this ravings of a gray mare."
The investigation found that the statement referred to Lukashenko, despite the fact that his name or position were not directly mentioned. The court hearing was held behind closed doors.
Trial outcome 17.06.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Darya was convicted in April 2021 for a comment left about police lieutenant colonel Vadim Polyakov. In December of the same year, she was convicted again for a comment published on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus".
Trial outcome 08.04.2021
1 year restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 587 rubles of compensation.
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