74 year old Natalia was accused and found guilty of slander and insulting A.G. Lukashenko, as well as insulting an public officer on duty. Details of the criminal process are unknown. The court was closed.
It is only known that before the verdict of the court, the woman was on recognizance. Natalia Taran was taken into custody right in the courtroom.
Trial outcome 09.08.2022:
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the case file, in September 2021, Sergei Tsigib was scrolling through his social media feed and saw a video titled "Policeman Who Will Receive Two Life Sentences." He liked the video, which subsequently appeared on Tsigib's personal Odnoklassniki page. It's worth noting that Tsigib himself has never participated in protests and has never been arrested for politically motivated administrative offenses.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the summer of 2025.
Dmitry was accused of sending photos and videos of military equipment with comments to the «Nexta» chat-bot in a telegram.
On February 12, 2022, he sent a video showing an unmarked plane flying at night, and he made a similar video on February 27. On March 3, Dmitry took off a tanker truck with the identification mark «V». On March 17, he sent a photo and video where something was allegedly launched from Baranovichi towards Ukraine.
None of these materials, as well as textual information, have been published in the «Nexta» channels.
Trial outcome 03.08.2022
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
He was detained in the winter of 2022. The man is accused of leaving the following comment on VKontakte under a message about a fatal shootout between KGB officer Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrey Zeltser last September while in Zhlobin: "The people have opened an account." This comment was later interpreted as "a call to fight law enforcement agencies." He had previously been convicted several times for drug trafficking.
On October 28, 2022, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
He is expectedto be released on April 3, 2025.
Trial outcome 04.08.2022
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
It is known that Vitaly is 36 years old. In February 2021, after the decision to deport him, he was taken from the Russian Federation to the Republic of Belarus. The connection with him has disappeared. He is accused of insulting Lukashenko and making comments in chats.
According to human rights activists, he was released in December 2022 after the expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 11.08.2022:
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
When they came to search him, he was at home with his mother. When people in civilian clothes attacked him, he was asleep and when he woke up, pushed one of the law enforcement officers. After that, Andrei was severely beaten.
Convicted of participating in protest actions 2020.
Trial outcome 15.08.2022
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Vitaliy Golovach was brought to criminal responsibility for taking a picture with the national flag against the backdrop of the Nazi swastika and posting this photo on social networks.
It is also known that Vitaly Golovach has a child with a disability and a wife with cancer at home. Providing for the family lies with him.
White teacher. language and literature in the 37th gymnasium in Minsk. Detained for participating in 2020 protests. Galina has two sons, one is a minor.
Trial outcome:
unknown years of restriction of liberty without direction.
According to information from pro-government telegram channels, he was detained for participating in protests in 2020 and registering in the Peramoga plan.
On March 21, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
According to screenshots of her stories from the pro-government Telegram channel, the woman also has an active civil position. For one of these stories, a criminal case was opened almost 2 years later. Like, in August 2020, she unfairly called Lukashenka a murderer, and did it in an insulting way. Although according to the text of the verdict, no forensic examinations were conducted that would prove the offensiveness of the Instagram story.
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