Former employee of the Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, convicted of insulting a police officer in Bobruisk. She posted a negative comment on social networks under a photo of an employee: "It's because of such goats that they don't like cops." After being detained and interrogated, Olga was fired from her job.
The court awarded 2 years of "home chemistry" and 1,000 rubles in compensation for non-pecuniary damage.
Pavel Anisimov was accused of intent on February 3, 2021 to publicly insult a representative of the authorities in connection with the performance of his official duties, left a comment on the Euroradio telegram channel under a message about the death of the deputy chief of staff of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Mogilev region Alexander Petrusevich with the following content: “ The bastard died, let the devils at Hades forever fry him .
The reason for the detention was painting more than 80 bales of haylage on the field. After the arrest, she and her husband were taken to the Dzerzhinsky District Department of Internal Affairs, and the house was searched. Before the trial, they chose a preventive measure in the form of detention and placed in Zhodzina Prison No. 8. Ekaterina faces up to six years in prison.
Convicted for celebrating Maslenitsa at a friend's summer cottage, where an effigy was installed and burned, according to the prosecution, similar to A.G. Lukashenko. The court considered this a public insult to the president.
Galina was convicted on charges of “active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order” for participating in protests that took place in 2020 in Minsk against the election results and violence in the country by security forces, and sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction.
Natalia was convicted on charges of “active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order” for participating in protests that took place in 2020 in Minsk against the election results and violence in the country by security forces, and sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction.
under one of the posts on social networks, Khlusevich left a comment from a single word: “Creature”. Over the past six months, a pensioner with cancer (she has leukemia) has survived a search, about 10 interrogations, a check in one criminal case and an accusation in another. Convicted again for "insult".
Nikita was convicted of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" for his participation in a protest that took place in Minsk on October 25, 2020. He was sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction. Before the trial, he was under a written undertaking not to leave.
Trial outcome 22.09.2021
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Vadim was arrested in June 2021 on charges of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order." The criminal case was opened against him for participating in protests that took place on October 25 and November 1, 2020, in Minsk. In September 2021, he was sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction and released from custody in the courtroom.
Trial outcome 22.09.2021
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Valentin was convicted in September 2021 for a comment addressed to the commander of the Brest Regional Executive Committee's Special Purpose Police Unit (OMON), Lieutenant Colonel Maksim Yakovlevich Mikhovich, and sentenced to restricted freedom without placement in an open-type facility.
Anton was convicted in September 2021 for a comment he posted about a police officer from the Berezovsky District Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Department in a Telegram channel designated as extremist. According to the charges, he acted with the intent to publicly insult a government official in connection with the performance of his official duties.
Eduard was convicted in the fall of 2021 for a comment he left on Olga Karach's Odnoklassniki page about traffic police officer Igor Volnich. He was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to a prison facility and ordered to pay monetary compensation for "moral damages."
Trial outcome 08.09.2021
1 year restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1500 rubles of compensation.
Eduard, a visually impaired nurse, previously competed for the Belarusian Paralympic team. In September 2021, he was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki about traffic police inspector Andrei Bagrayenok. A linguistic expert found the comment humiliating. Eduard was under house arrest until his trial, after which he was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open facility.
Trial outcome 08.09.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Alina was found guilty in September 2021 for the comment "Death" left on the social media site Odnoklassniki, addressed to Savich, a warrant officer in the Minsk City Executive Committee's riot police company. According to the prosecution, the comment humiliated the recipient and was deemed offensive.
Trial outcome 07.09.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
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