According to the first charge, between August 5, 2020, and August 11, 2021, Andrei posted insults against Lukashenko in social media comments at least 20 times. In May 2022, he was sentenced to restricted freedom without referral.
However, he was soon convicted again. According to the second charge, between August 5, 2020, and July 2021, Andrei repeatedly posted derogatory and offensive comments about Natalia Kachanova, Vladimir Makei, and other officials on the social network Odnoklassniki. He was sentenced to restricted freedom with a referral.
The location of his sentence is unknown. Andrei has ailing elderly parents who require care.
Citizen of the Russian Federation. It is known that Elena Naralenkova has the status of a participant in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as well as a victim of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and has a chronic disease. According to the prosecution, the insult to the president was committed by Naralenkova through a message in the Telegram messenger. Naralenkova herself pleaded not guilty and during the trial suggested that her comment could indirectly be regarded as insulting the president, but she had no such intent. Because she wrote to another person - a user who wrote a comment using the phrases expressed by Lukashenka. That is, Naralenkova commented on the comment of another user.
Convicted for a comment regarding Lukashenko A. on the Odnoklassniki network, left on May 3, 2021.
The result of the forensic linguistic examination was announced in court. According to her, the comment in question "contains a negative assessment of the President of Belarus, expressed by the word "clown."
It is unknown whether Kirill served a sentence of restricted freedom with a referral, but if he did, he was supposed to be released in the summer of 2024.
Trial outcome 11.03.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Victoria Kostyuchenko worked as a mathematics teacher in schools, gymnasiums, college, and the Gomel Regional Institute for Education Development for over 30 years. She is the winner of the regional stage of the professional competition "Teacher of the Year 2009" and a super finalist of the national stage of this competition. She was formally repressed for a comment about the local police officer Artem Zhevnyak, who was offended by the opinion expressed about him by the teacher.
06/22/2022 left the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 08.02.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 2000 rubles of compensation.
Vyacheslav was accused of writing an obscene comment, “degrading the honor and dignity of the victim” on one of the social networks under a photograph of Vladimir Karanik, “with the aim of publicly insulting a government official in connection with the performance of his official duties.”
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 26.01.2022:
2 years restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility
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