A businessman from Mogilev, his home was searched. A regional state television channel claimed that Tychinsky "was a supporter of Ukrainian Nazi groups" and that he "drove with Ukrainian nationalist symbols in his car." The latter refers to the official flag of Ukraine.
As a result, a criminal case was opened against Vladimir. He is accused of filming the movement of Russian military Z-type equipment on his mobile phone in April 2022 and sending the video to media outlets, which the authorities deemed "extremist."
On October 24, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the spring of 2025, having served his full sentence.
According to the investigation, on the night of March 20, a 20-year-old man tore down four state flags in the agro-town of Loshnitsa. He damaged the flags and broke the poles.
After this, Mikhail was detained by police officers. It turned out that he was a citizen of a foreign state with a residence permit in the Republic of Belarus. He arrived in the Republic of Belarus about 10 years ago and was assigned to work at one of the enterprises in the Minsk region.
Antipov filmed his actions on his phone and posted the photos on his social network page.
The defendant's mother testified in court. Suspecting that her son had committed illegal actions against the flags, she demanded that he contact the police and also reported the incident to the local police inspector.
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 23.06.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the prosecution , on August 14, 2020, Tatyana Zolotar moved for a long time as part of a convoy along the roadway, thereby blocking and blocking the path of vehicles moving along it, which caused a disruption in the operation of transport, while expressing her socio-political views, with with the aim of whipping up discontent and tension, she demonstrated balloons, flowers of white flowers, which were used as symbols of the protest movement.
Trial outcome 28.07.2023:
1 year of restriction of liberty without a referral
Kirill's sentence, handed down in the summer of 2023, was announced in a local state television report. The report stated that the criminal case was based on a Telegram comment containing obscene language directed at Lukashenko, written in 2022. Kirill was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
In December 2024, a new court hearing was announced regarding the issue of replacing the restricted freedom sentence with a prison term in a penal colony. The outcome of the hearing, as well as Kirill's presence, remains unknown.
The driver of the Svetlogorsk municipal housing unitary enterprise "Svetoch" Vladimir was detained by the police at work on January 6 of this year. First, an administrative case was filed against him, and in the Svetlogorsk district court he was arrested under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code.
Then he was charged with allegedly “inciting racial, national, religious or other social hatred or enmity.” People who have spoken unkindly about government officials on the Internet are tried under this article.
According to human rights activists , he was released in November 2023 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
According to the materials of the prosecution, on August 9, 2020, Lolita joined the crowd of people, went out onto the roadway, clapped her hands, shouted loudly, shouted various slogans, refused to comply with the demands of the police officers.
In court, Kozyreva explained that she did not shout out slogans, did not get into a clutch, did not use physical force against police officers, did not throw any objects at them. When the police officers began to approach the crowd and force the citizens out of the roadway, she went home.
According to the protocol of inspection of items dated April 25, 2023, the characteristics of the shirt seized from Kozyreva were examined and recorded. When examining the shirt and comparing it with the video files of CCTV cameras, it was established that it was in this shirt that she was wearing that evening at the protest.
At first, Oleg was convicted under an administrative article, part 2 of article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution of extremist materials) for sending a telegram post from the Mustache Lukashenko channel in private messages to a friend. For this, the man was sentenced to 10 days of arrest. And already on March 22, 2023, the man was placed in a pre-trial detention center on criminal charges for comments about Lukashenka and the Belarusian military. According to human rights activists , there was such a comment about the military: "pi * duki" (it was with the asterisk sign that the comment imputed to Oleg was).
During Prokopchuk's stay in a pre-trial detention center, he had a third child, but this did not affect the court's decision.
On August 1, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2024after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 22.06.2023:
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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