Vyacheslav was convicted for insulting comments towards Lukashenko and police officers on Facebook.
It became known about the verdict from a video on State TV. In it, Prosecutor Pavel Kurpenich said that Vyacheslav was held in custody before the trial, and during the trial he fully admitted guilt.
Vyacheslav Kobrin is 58 years old. The man is married, enjoys fishing.
Trial outcome 24.03.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Initially, Vladislav was detained in the administrative case 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for 15 days, during which he was charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus . A photo from marches in Minsk was found on his phone.
Trial outcome 27.03.2023:
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
A woman was convicted for participating in a protest on August 9, 2020. Marina Lekhnovich is one of five detainees in Zhlobin during a police raid on December 13 last year.
According to the materials of the prosecution , Vadim Myakinnik, near the administrative building of one of the secondary schools in Minsk, saw a red-green flag on a metal bracket on the wall at the main entrance. Grabbing the flag with his hand, he tore it off the bracket, after which, holding in his right hand the staff with the cloth displaced on it, he disappeared and headed in an unknown direction, thereby publicly humiliating the state symbol. These actions were recorded by a surveillance camera.
The educational institution suffered damage in the amount of 25 rubles 20 kopecks.
Trial outcome 23.03.2023:
2 months 1 day imprisonment in a penal colony under strict regime conditions.
Aleksandr Osipovich is now 48 years old. He is a product of the Minsk Dynamo youth system. At the adult level, Osipovich first played for the Dynamo farm team in D2, from where he was called up to the youth team (he eventually played 15 matches there). He made his debut for the main team of the "white-blues" in mid-1997 - he began to appear regularly in the lineup, and the team won the championship title. Later in his career, he played for Lithuanian "Zalgiris", Polish "Zagłębie", as well as other clubs in Belarus and neighboring countries. After finishing his career, Osipovich became a football agent and also worked as a "football tutor".
At the end of 2022, Alexander was detained by "security forces" in Minsk. Later, human rights activists managed to find out that on January 9, 2023, Osipovich was "tried" under the article under which they punished for "insulting" Alexander Lukashenko (now they have added his family members there). The "sentence" was passed by Oleg Kalyada, who has more than one "political" case under his belt.
According to human rights activists, he has already been released.
Trial outcome 09.01.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
A member of the Belarusian free software community and one of the creators of the scientific and educational samizdat "Pamylka," Yuri Adamov studied theoretical physics at BSU, received his PhD in the UK, and conducted research in American laboratories and universities.
According to provincial media, he was arrested for making 24 "donations" to the extremist groups "BySol" and "ByHelp" totaling $1,590. A criminal case has now been opened.
In November 2027, he was released , having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 24.07.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the case materials , Olga Ivanchenko posted on her Odnoklassniki page in the public domain “text with an image containing deliberately false fabrications that disgrace Alexander Lukashenko, humiliate his honor and dignity, and are aimed at undermining his authority and creating a negative image.”
In addition, the woman posted “comments with a negative assessment of him, containing obscene language” under the post with an image of Alexander Lukashenko.
Olga has an autism spectrum disorder . After her arrest, she was held for about a month at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health in Novinki.
On 20.06.2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the fall of 2024.
Trial outcome 21.03.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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