According to the indictment, on September 8, 2023, Vladimir Lukyanchuk wrote an offensive comment in the “Bearded Man’s Chat” telegram chat. In the message, Alexander Grigorievich was called a word that means “balabol” (but in an obscene form).
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
A father of many children, allegedly detained for administering the “Solidarity Ivatsevichi” chat in 2020.
He worked as a taxi driver.
In addition to imprisonment, Vitaly was awarded a fine of 40,000 rubles.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
During the detention, “special equipment and physical force” were used against Yevgeny, according to the June 2 court decision (the man was accused of disobeying the police). He was taken out of his office in handcuffs and with a bag over his head, we know from our sources.
At the moment, Evgeny Pelekhaty is awaiting trial. He is accused of writing several tough telegram comments about Lukashenka and the security forces.
According to the prosecution, after viewing a photograph posted in the public domain on Odnoklassniki with fixed text, where the honor and dignity of Lukashenko’s personality was humiliated in an indecent form and he was accused of committing a particularly serious crime (murder), Kozlovskaya posted the photograph on her page on the same social network, open for free viewing and copying to an unlimited circle of readers.
In court, Olga said that she sent a letter to Alexander Lukashenko, in which she apologized to him.
According to human rights activists, she was released in December 2023 upon expiration of her sentence.
6 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Olga was first convicted under an administrative article for "distributing, manufacturing, storing, transporting information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities", after which a criminal case was opened against her for insulting Lukashenka A.G.
3 months of arrest .
Vyacheslav was accused of “uttering phrases degrading the honor and dignity” of A. Lukashenko while drunk in the presence of police officers. Recordings from police video recorders were later used in court as evidence of Solodky’s guilt. It is not specified what exact words Vyacheslav spoke.
On August 18, 2024, the appeal was considered. 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 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Grigory Vasilkov returned to Belarus in March 2022, where he was detained. The reason for the return was the mother's illness (cancer was found), and then the cancer was found in the father.
Grigory has not been in Belarus for a year and a half: since the end of November 2020. As he told the court, the reason for his departure was the inability to find a job in his specialty, as well as the need to deal with the documents of his grandmother (a citizen of Ukraine, but there is a Belarusian residence permit).
The man was convicted for participating in protest actions in Brest in 2020 (in the case of round dances).
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained for participating in protests.
Pro-government telegram channels reported that Alexey was “a barker at protests, walked in the front row, demanded changes.”
On December 23, 2022, the appeal was considered: the verdict was left unchanged.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2023.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Former goalkeeper of the football club «Granit». According to known match applications, he played for the club in the 2006/2007 season.
According to the charge, traffic police officers detained Tereshkevich on the evening of January 9, 2022 on the highway. In the employees' car, in the hospital and on the way to the police department, he insulted Lukashenko, using obscene language. Among the expletives were: «Animal, redneck, fucking motherfucker».
The court considered as aggravating circumstances that the man already had a criminal record under defamatory Article 369 of the Criminal Code. The verdict in this case is unknown: during this episode, Tereshkevich dumped garbage on a police car.
On October 30, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
It is known about Anton that he is married and has three young children.
Between August 18, 2020 and September 1, 2020, under a post on the page of political prisoner Pyotr Zinevich, the defendant posted the comment “creature.” As Anton Kovalev himself explained to the court, personal data of police officers was posted in this post. He put his comment under them.
Kovalev had about 8 months of “home chemicals” left to serve. However, allegedly due to violations of the conditions of serving his sentence, on April 11, 2023, his punishment was increased and he was sentenced to 4 months in prison. The man was taken into custody after the trial.
In August 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
1). 2 years of freedom restriction without referral to a correctional facility
2). 4 months of imprisonment in the colony.
Birch resident. According to the prosecution, on July 18, 2021, Govorko posted a video on his Instagram account, where he spoke about two policemen of the Berezovsky department of the Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. This video contains pictures of them. Govorko's actions were qualified as a crime under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (insulting a representative of the authorities), since oral comments contained "an indecent, humiliating and negative assessment of the personalities of the victims" .
The court ruled to satisfy claims for moral damages in the amount of 1,500 Belarusian rubles to each policeman. Released at the end of March 2022 after the expiration of the sentence.
3 months of arrest
citizen of Ukraine, detained on October 1, 2021 for "insulting".
Fine 100 basic 100bv + 3000 compensation to the "victim"
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.
He began to serve his sentence.
Released after expiration of sentence.
3 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Dmitry was a witness in the case of Brest political prisoners, bloggers Sergei Petrukhin and Alexander Kabanov, who were sentenced to three years in a penal colony in April this year. As the activist told Brest human rights activists, a criminal case was opened against him for refusing to answer the questions of the judge, who considered the case of Petrukhin and Kabanov, because he did not show the official ID of the judge.
Released 02/26/2022
3 months of arrest .
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