The woman was accused of participating in a protest in Minsk in 2020 and entering the roadway. Olga fully admitted her guilt. Olga's husband acted as a witness at the trial.
The Minsk resident was identified from a protest photo that was found on Instagram. After the verdict was announced, Olga was released in the courtroom, and the preventive measure was changed to a written undertaking not to leave.
Olga Nikiforova has a higher education and is self-employed.
Trial outcome 24.04.2024
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
24.04. 2024, a pro-government telegram channel published a video about the detention of Mogilev driving school teacher Ekaterina Kostuseva, daughter of the leader of the Belarusian Popular Front party Grigory Kostusev. On camera, the woman says that in 2020 she “provided assistance to the extremist formation “Viasna”” and in 2021 registered in the “Plan Peramogi” bot.
The authors of the channel do not specify what exactly the detainee is charged with.
A pro-government channel shows the arrest of a man: three security officers run up to him from behind on the street and put him face down on the asphalt. In the video, Yakovenko says that on August 10, 2020, he was on Masherov Avenue in Brest. He was there with his friend Igor Sorokin (he was arrested in February after returning from Poland).
According to human rights activists, he was released at the end of May 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
In a “repentance video” on a pro-government channel , a man says that he was previously arrested for 10 days under the article on distributing “extremist materials” (Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code). This time he was detained for standing on the roadway with his friends in 2020 and “launching fireworks at employees.”
Detained in a criminal case of mass riots 08/10/2020
Trial outcome 12.09.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 12.11.2024
unknown.
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