On August 22, 2022, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 01.06.2023:
unknown years of imprisonment
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On December 22, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 25.10.2023:
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
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It is known that an appeal hearing was held on November 1, 2023, and the verdict came into force.
Ruslan was tried for a comment in a telegram channel that allegedly encouraged participation in the Marches. Ruslan admitted guilt. He said that he actually posted the comment under the influence of emotions, as he read the comments of other users on the channel. He also noted that he once went to a protest rally.
It is known that Ruslan was detained on the border with Russia: the time and circumstances are unknown. Before his arrest, he worked as a mechanical technician.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
According to the prosecution , Alexander was drunk when on the night of June 19, 2023, he allegedly first tore down a flag mounted on the wall of one of the stores. Afterwards, he removed another flag from a house in Minsk near a metro station, after which he handed it over to a metro employee. After that, he allegedly removed the flag from the facade of the building of the Belpochta RUE branch and left it at the entrance. At the end of the action, the man allegedly tore off another flag, which he threw at a public transport stop and set it on fire. That same night, Alexander allegedly set fire to a plastic waste container. Alexander Smirnov did not admit guilt during the trial. He said that he tore down the flags when he was drunk, because he wanted to leave a memory of his stay in Belarus and hang them at home. He had no intention of desecrating state symbols. He set fire to one of the flags by accident, and was completely absent from the scene of one of the incidents. Alexander noted that he gave preliminary testimony regarding this episode under physical and emotional pressure from police officers .
On November 14, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 08.09.2023:
3 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
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On November 28, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Presumably the punishment involves imprisonment.
Trial outcome 11.09.2023:
unknown years of imprisonment
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January 2023 security officials drew attention to the pages of the pensioner in social networks: there they found subscriptions to “extremist” information resources, reposts from them, as well as images of white-red-white flags and “chase”, caricatures of Lukashenko and Putin reprinted from various sources. The woman's home was searched and her mobile phone was confiscated.
Trial outcome 29.08.2023:
unknown
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On October 27, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 24.08.2023:
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Convicted for participating in protests, as well as for comments on social networks.
Trial outcome 16.08.2023:
unknown
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Vice-rector for educational and scientific-methodological work of the State Institute of Culture and Culture "GAZ-INSTITUTE". Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor.
Alexander was taken into custody on charges of donating to initiatives that are recognized as extremist.
On September 15, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force
Trial outcome 20.06.2023:
3 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Convicted for a comment in the "Punishers of Belarus" chat. The court considered the comment "whatever the face, then the parasya" left under the publication about the employee of the GUBOPiK Yuri Skok as offensive and, in addition to punishment, imposed a fine of 3,700 rubles and moral compensation to the victim - 2,000 rubles.
Trial outcome 26.07.2023:
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution
According to journalists, the accusation is related to the fact that the Gomel resident transferred money to help Ukraine through the BYSOL fund. After the full-scale Russian invasion, he spoke out against the war on social networks and published reports on humanitarian assistance to residents of the Chernihiv region, they note.
Yuri Tashkinov is a Gomel entrepreneur, a resident of the city technopark. In 2018, he developed a mobile application for searching for providers of various services.
On October 27, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
In the summer and autumn of 2021, Dmitry twice marked “Class” on posts in the “ Stop Luka ” public in Odnoklassniki, due to which the publications became visible in the feed on the Mogilev resident’s page. The posts contained information about the activities of Alexander Lukashenko, which, according to the court , was slanderous and disgracing the personality of the head of the power vertical.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Vitaly was accused of writing 1 telegram comment in the Luhtovikings chat about Nikolai Karpenkov (in 2020, Karpenkov served as head of the GUBOPiK, and at the end of 2020 he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs). Karpenkov is known to the general public for being the one who smashed the only shop window during the 2020 protests in Minsk.
Trial outcome 11.07.2023:
2 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution.
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