The woman was accused of publicly insulting A. Lukashenko for writing a comment on the Odnoklassniki social network. That comment was written in March 2021 under the news that during Lukashenka’s visit to the hospital, the guards did not allow one doctor to see the patient, because of which the patient died.
Trial outcome 20.02.2023:
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
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.
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