Maxim was accused of leaving an offensive comment on the Odnoklassniki social network in a group titled "Belsat TV Channel" under a news story about a single mother's sentencing. The story claimed the single mother had allegedly insulted police officer Kutsko with an "offensive symbol" and received two years of "house arrest." Maxim's own comment also targeted Kutsko, and the story was accompanied by a photograph of "police officers in uniform."
The police officer demanded compensation for "moral damages," the court upheld the claim, and Maxim's phone was confiscated by the state as "an instrument of committing a crime."
Trial outcome 19.02.2024
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 50 basic values fine, 2000 rubles of compensation.
The man’s “repentance video” was shown in one of Azarenka’s programs, where Alexander “admits” to participating in protests and reposting on Facebook on the topic of elections and COVID. Note that in the propagandist’s program Tereshchenko is also called an officer and “the head of the KGB of the Borisov region” .
It is known that Alexander was sentenced to prison.
On April 5, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 01.02.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Mikalai was detained in November 2023 as part of a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Minsk on August 28, 2020 against the results of the presidential elections and violence in the country. He was convicted of participating in the protest under the article "on organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
In August 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding against Mikalai “on replacing the restriction of freedom without sending him to an open-type correctional facility.”
Trial outcome 29.01.2024
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
After being detained for three days, they were released pending trial on bail, with Oksana Karazhan contributing 5,500 rubles, and Vitaly – 11,100 rubles.
According to the prosecution materials , political prisoners Vitaly and Oksana , “taking part in the event, were among a group of people on Pobediteley Avenue and Lenin Street, went out onto the roadway in Minsk, as a result of which they blocked and obstructed the path of vehicles, which resulted in disruption of public transport ", which resulted in its stopping. While taking part in the mass event, slogans were not shouted."
Trial outcome 18.01.2024:
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction
After being detained for three days, they were released pending trial on bail, with Oksana Karazhan contributing 5,500 rubles, and Vitaly – 11,100 rubles.
According to the prosecution materials , political prisoners Vitaly and Oksana , “taking part in the event, were among a group of people on Pobediteley Avenue and Lenin Street, went out onto the roadway in Minsk, as a result of which they blocked and obstructed the path of vehicles, which resulted in disruption of public transport ", which resulted in its stopping. While taking part in the mass event, slogans were not shouted."
Trial outcome 18.01.2024:
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction
The man was detained from November 21 to November 24, 2023, after which he was placed under house arrest.
He was accused of leaving a comment on the telegram channel “Belarus of the Brain” on August 13, 2021, under the publication “Good news on Friday evening from cyber-partisans: the wiretapping of the internal communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was hacked.” On the cover of the publication there were photographs of the head of the Soligorsk police department, police colonel Alexander Aleksandrovich Sharovar, and the deputy head of the police department of the Minsk regional executive committee, colonel Maksimovich Nikolai Vasilyevich. It was in the direction of the two named police officers that Victor left a comment that the court considered offensive. The man fully admitted his guilt.
Victor Ostapuk has a higher education and works as a director in a limited liability company.
Trial outcome 25.01.2024:
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
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