The criminal case is related to protest graffiti written with a felt-tip pen in Brest. Earlier, security forces announced the arrest of a 68-year-old pensioner who wrote "No to war" and "Long live Belarus!" at a public transport stop.
Before the trial, the woman was placed under house arrest. After the verdict was announced, the woman's house arrest was lifted.
Detained for participating in protests in Minsk in 2020.
It became known that on February 17, 2023, four residents of Postavy were sentenced to "house arrest".
Before the verdict, all but Lyudmila Tsybulskaya were in custody. They were released in the courtroom.
They were found guilty for participating in one of the Minsk Marches. According to the charges, they disrupted the operation of public transport by going out onto the roadway during protests, shouting slogans, clapping, and holding a flag. Yuri Dikovich was also tried for another March. Dikovich, Levko, and Pleshavenya pleaded guilty in full, Tsybulskaya - partially. Dikovich said that he had planned to participate in the Marches in advance because he did not agree with the use of violence against protesters. Levko, Pleshavenya, and Tsybulskaya said that they came to Minsk from another city to take part in the March. Levko did not agree with the election results, Tsybulskaya and Pleshavenya came "out of interest."
It is known that Dikovich is raising a daughter with a disability, and Tsybulskaya is a pensioner.
Trial outcome 17.02.2023
2 years 3 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Pavel is a resident of Gomel, studied at the Francysk Skaryna Gomel State University. An active player in the quiz.
With the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the man on his vk.com page actively spoke out against the war. Later, his page was blocked by the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.
Pavel's anti-war statements in social networks could be the reason for accusing him of inciting other social hostility.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in September 2023.
From the video published on pro-government channels, it follows that he was detained for several comments on Telegram (in which he did not seem to offend anyone, but the security forces considered them “negative”) and for a cover of the Scorpions song “Wind of Change” from the Lirival project .
According to the accusation, one December night, he wrote the phrase “ACAB” and twice “Long live Belarus” on the Brest stall “Snuffboxes”. For this, they counted 18 rubles of “damage” (which the guy compensated before the trial).
Vladimir was accused of administering the community on VKontakte “FOR THE ADZINU DZYARZHANU MOVU IN BELARUS!”
In February 2021, Vladimir Butkovets contacted the Gomel Investigative Committee with a request to be questioned as a witness in the case of human rights activist Leonid Sudalenko , to whom he had repeatedly sought legal assistance.
In the summer of 2022, Vladimir was fired from his job as "politically unreliable."
Vladimir was first detained on September 5, 2022, and sentenced to seven days in jail under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for "dissemination of extremist materials."
On February 13, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court sentenced him to three years in a maximum-security penal colony.
The appeal hearing took place on April 18, 2023. The Supreme Court commuted the sentence to three years of restricted freedom in an open correctional facility. Vladimir was released from Pretrial Detention Center No. 3 and remains at large pending his transfer to a correctional facility.
Trial outcome 13.02.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 19.04.2023
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 18.04.2023
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
A resident of the Ivatsevichi district. She keeps horses in the village of Khodorki, gives the opportunity to ride them and take photos. This activity of hers is registered as the equestrian farmstead "Razgon".
She was charged under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code for publicly insulting Lukashenko. On September 20, 2023, the woman published a "repentant video" in which she says that she received a punishment in the form of "house arrest".
Trial outcome 24.01.2023
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
The reason for the arrest Vera and her husband Andrey (elder of the Novaya Zemlya Baptist Church) Probably, the published photos from the 2020 protests have become. A criminal case was initiated against Momoiko's family for participating in protest actions.
Andrey and Vera Mamoyko are also well-known musicians who have participated in the recording of several albums of Christian music. At the moment, Mamoiko worked as a developer in one of the IT companies in Belarus.
Trial outcome 21.04.2023
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
The reason for the arrest of Andrei (an elder of the Novaya Zemlya Baptist Church) and his wife Vera was probably the published photos from the 2020 protests. A criminal case was initiated against Momoiko's family for participating in protest actions.
Andrey and Vera Mamoyko are also well-known musicians who have participated in the recording of several albums of Christian music. At the moment, Mamoiko worked as a developer in one of the IT companies in Belarus.
It is known that the woman was detained in December 2022. Before the trial, she was under house arrest, and after her detention, she spent three days from 16 to 19 December 2022 in the Pinsk TDF. Natalya Pavlyuchenko was convicted for a comment on the Odnoklassniki social network on March 17, 2021 towards Lukashenka in the Media Polesie group under the news about a patient who died in a Pinsk hospital. The comment was recognized as a deliberate public insult to Lukashenka. At the trial, Natalya pleaded not guilty. She explained that she saw in the group a message about the death of a patient due to the actions of Lukashenka's guards, so she posted the message. But she does not admit guilt, since the comment was not about Lukashenka, but about his guards, and was related not to his personality, but to the actions of the guards.
Trial outcome 16.02.2023:
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
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