Victoria Kostyuchenko worked as a mathematics teacher in schools, gymnasiums, college, and the Gomel Regional Institute for Education Development for over 30 years. She is the winner of the regional stage of the professional competition "Teacher of the Year 2009" and a super finalist of the national stage of this competition. She was formally repressed for a comment about the local police officer Artem Zhevnyak, who was offended by the opinion expressed about him by the teacher.
06/22/2022 left the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 08.02.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 2000 rubles of compensation.
Convicted for participating in protests, identified from video on 08/09/2020.
According to the courtschedule , her caseon replacingthe restriction offreedomwith imprisonmentina penal colony was heardon October 21, 2024, in the Minsk District Court.
Trial outcome 06.05.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Anton was arrested in December 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "driving a vehicle by a person without a driver's license."
In May 2022, Anton was found guilty of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Left Belarus.
In October and November 2024, in absentia court hearings were held within the framework of special proceedings on the issue of replacing the appointed sentence.
Former first-year student of Belarusian State University (the decree on his expulsion appeared a month after the detention). He and his friends were detained on January 19, 2022, when they were filming a video review of drones on Nemiga for their YouTube blog Nick&Bon . OMON officers immediately checked the phones of the guys and found there photos and videos from the largest protest march in the history of Belarus on August 16, 2020.
Trial outcome:
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
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