Stanislav was detained in a hotel in Moscow. He was put on the wanted list in the Republic of Belarus under Article 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus - “Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus.”
To avoid criminal prosecution, Ilyin decided to get lost in Russia. However, on November 14, the police raided the hotel and detained Ilyin.
He was extradited to Belarus.
On November 10, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
Pavel Belikov is the director of a large advertising studio "Legalitbay". He was detained together with his wife. In the security forces' video, Pavel says that he allegedly printed protest leaflets at a printing house owned by "Legalitbay". The man also says that he allegedly wrote to "protest" Telegram channels, including "The Black Book of Belarus". He allegedly passed on information about police officers and the prosecutor to the latter. His wife works for an IT company. She was detained for having a protest sticker on her car. In the video, she says that she "participated in the protests", but no confirmation of this is provided.
Businessman, founder of the website development company Astronim. Bogdan is also a co-founder of the International Festival of Marketing and Advertising “White Square”.
Alice is accused of one telegram message written on the evening of February 28, 2022 (on the 4th day of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine).
The comment was written in the telegram chat «Belaruski Gayun Chat» (a chat associated with the channel Belaruski Gayun», which tracked the movement of Russian troops on the territory of Belarus). The text contains the word «rats», and the state prosecution interprets this as referring to Lukashenko. In addition, at the trial, the prosecutor pointed out that this word is profanity.
According to human rights activists, she was released on August 18, 2023 after the expiration of her sentence.
Trial outcome:
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
On March 2, 2021, a man read a post on the VKontakte social network that a woman had been convicted for insulting a government official. Under the post, Oleg left a comment regarding Sergey Labaev, an employee of the Inspectorate for Juvenile Affairs of the Berezovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, which the court considered offensive. Oleg has a higher education and is raising a minor child.
Trial outcome:
2 years of restriction of liberty without referral to an open correctional facility
Denis was arrested in September 2022 as part of a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk. In November of that year, he was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in June 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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