Vladislav Ryabich, 24, has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. He has a Group 1 disability. He comes from a large family and also has a twin brother with a disability. Local journalists often visited the family to film stories or write articles about the exemplary family and their wonderful children. Vladislav Ryabich is a multiple Olympiad participant and had a grade point average of 9.4.
On August 9, 2022,security forces burst into the house where Vladislav and his younger brother were staying. They rudely threatened the man and asked him to comment on what he had written in response to a 2020 post about Lukashenko. In his comment, Vladislav agreed with the post. If he "repented," the police would "forgive him." However, Vladislav refused to admit he was mistaken and stated that he would not change his mind. He also added that he was honored that they came to him with machine guns on August 9. He was then threatened with criminal prosecution. He refused to testify in court. His testimony was read during the investigation in August 2022 by investigator Yankovsky. He gave it in Belarusian.
He was convicted again in 2026, most likely in the Gayun case.
Trial outcome 12.09.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 03.04.2026
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Detained for 400 episodes with comments on social networks.
According to the prosecution materials , an employee of the Alliance-Plastic enterprise, Evgeniy Gukov, during the period from October 20 to November 20, 2020, repeatedly posted in the telegram chats “Gagarina Street” and “Vitebsk-97” a video with Alexander Lukashenko’s speech on the channel “Pul Pervogo” ", which was accompanied by offensive and obscene comments using an obscene form of speech.
Also on October 28, on one of the Telegram channels, Evgeniy insulted former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuri Karaev.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
The man was detained in July 2022. It is known that he worked as a driver at the Gomelsteklo enterprise.
A video of Mikhail’s arrest appeared in pro-government public pages, where the man himself says that he allegedly posted a photo of Lukashenko in “indecent form” on Odnoklassniki. And in the pro-government public, the man was also accused of distributing “extremist materials.”
In the spring of 2024 he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
According to human rights activists , Yuri was convicted, among other things, for liking and commenting on photographs, posts and videos on social networks.
At the beginning of April 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome date unknown
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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