In comments on social networks, he insulted a judge, a prosecutor, a juvenile affairs inspector and two district police officers of the city of Dubrovno. He lived in Moscow in 2020-2021 and from there wrote comments in Odnoklassniki under the publication of Mikhail Chemurako (an activist who was convicted of chemistry and is now in exile).
Detained on November 14, 2022 upon his return to Belarus.
01/19/2024 released after expiration of sentence.
Trial outcome 19.01.2023:
1 year and 2 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Kristina was the director of the Millefeuil beauty salon. Before the trial, she was under house arrest.
According to the materials of the prosecution , Vecherkina violated public order, went out onto the carriageway of the streets, including Pobediteley Avenue, publicly demonstrated the V sign as a protest symbol with her fingers, and disrupted public transport. In the case, there are several episodes of Kristina's participation in protest marches. The court also satisfied the civil claim of Minsktrans for the amount of 47,716 rubles. The car and computer equipment remained under arrest until the issue with the civil lawsuit was resolved.
Trial outcome 17.01.2023:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Political activist, co-chair of the unregistered party Belarusian Christian Democracy and member of the Coordinating Council for organizing the process of overcoming the political crisis.
Member of the initiative group and head of the headquarters of the election campaign of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. Currently, he heads the charitable foundation «Country for Life».
Activist, chairman of the strike committee of the Minsk Tractor Plant, member of the presidium of the Coordinating Council for organizing the process of overcoming the political crisis.
In the video of the security forces, the man says that he works as a software engineer in an educational institution - according to his social networks, this is the Belarusian National Technical University.
According to what the security forces say, he published his opinions about the situation in Ukraine in the comments. Judging by the published screenshots, there is nothing radical there. For example, a man says that many Belarusians support Ukraine, and the dead Russian soldiers are occupiers in a foreign land, so they are not very sorry.
Before his arrest, Sergei worked as a history teacher at Minsk School No. 30. The man graduated from the history department of the Belarusian State University and from his school years was fond of studying history. Previously, he was detained under an administrative article for participating in protest marches in Minsk. Convicted under a criminal article also for participation in protests.
Trial outcome:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
According to human rights activists, Oksana was detained at the end of December 2022. She was a member of the core team of the Coordination Council. In June 2021, she was detained during the premiere of the production “White Rabbit, Red Rabbit” and was released after drawing up a report. In May 2021, her apartment was searched.
Oksana was tried together with political prisoner Bohdan Korovets , founder of the Astronim company and the White Square advertising and marketing festival.
Oksana Zaretskaya’s father has health problems, Bogdan is raising a child with a disability.
According to human rights activists, Oksana felt unwell after the verdict was announced and was hospitalized. The woman spent at least three days in a coma, and after some time she was returned to Volodarka. The pre-trial detention center doctors did not provide proper medical care to Zaretskaya, and did not even take valerian for her in the packages from her relatives.
On April 10, 2024, she was releasedafter fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome:
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Andrei is registered in the urban settlement of Ushachi (Vitebsk region), but in recent years he lived and worked in Russia. On September 23, 2022, he was detained in Moscow and placed in custody because Belarusian security forces put Andrei Nikolaevich on the international wanted list.
As was announced at the court in Brest, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office refused to extradite Protasevich to Belarus due to the absence of a crime in his actions under Russian law.
However, he was expelled from Russia under the procedure of "violation of migration legislation" and transferred to Belarus. In Belarus, Andrei Nikolaevich has been in custody since November 7, 2022. He was sentenced to three months of arrest for a comment on social networks.
It is known that Andrei had another trial, under Article 368 Part 1 (insulting Lukashenko). The outcome is unknown.
April 2, 2024 Andrey had his appeal reviewed. It is known that Andrey began serving his sentence.
In January 2025, he was released after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 13.01.2023
3 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 19.01.2024
1 year 3 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 02.04.2024
unknown.
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