According to the prosecution, in the spring of 2022, Yuriy Zaretsky, at approximately 17:20, "being aware of being in a public place, opposing his personality to public interests and expressing demonstrative disrespect for society, with the aim of worsening the aesthetic perception of public property, applied a couple of inscriptions to the reinforced concrete fences of the Gomel civil engineering section with a black aerosol can." Zaretsky, questioned at the court hearing, fully admitted his guilt and said that he was outraged by what was happening in Ukraine, so he decided to express his attitude to the events and write on the concrete fence near the pedestrian crossing over the railway tracks on Kirov Street "P…. - …."
Trial outcome 13.06.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
The trial was supposed to take place on July 11, 2022, however, the criminal prosecution against Vadim was terminated due to the expiration of the term for criminal liability (in accordance with art. 83 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus).
It follows from the published court decision that the woman saw a photo and video with police officer L on Telegram. -linguistic examination simply contains a "negative assessment of L."
Trial outcome 22.06.2022:
1.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
Citizen of Belarus, but Ukrainian, born in the Cherkasy region. Participated in republican folk art festivals in Belarus. She is raising a 16-year-old son.
After the start of shelling of Ukraine from the territory of Belarus, I wrote a poem on an emotional wave, recorded it on video and posted it on Tik-Tok. The poem contained words that insulted the president and humiliated his honor and dignity.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 08.07.2022:
1 year 9 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Oleg is accused of posting three messages on the Internet about an airplane flying over Gomel, showing the time and applied geolocation. And then adding a video about the movement of Russian PAZ buses.
Oleg has a son. Before his arrest, he worked as a taxi driver and volunteered for several charitable organizations.
Alexander, a student at the Belarusian State Aviation Academy, was arrested on June 6, 2022 and convicted of, according to investigators, "systematically providing information to the Nexta Telegram channel."
He was released in September 2024 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.
According to the data published in the telegram channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus, she was detained for participating in protest actions 2020, she is also accused of allegedly registering in the «Peramoga» plan.
Trial outcome 14.11.2022:
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He is an employee of the «Mozyr Oil Refinery». Vadim once worked at the «Mozyr oil refinery», and then left for Poland.
For the first time, employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption detained him right at home after returning to Belarus — for allegedly going to rallies in 2020, and after the war began, photographing military equipment and sending pictures to telegram channels.
According to human rights activists, when Vadim was detained, they beat him, seized his phone and spoiled his documents. After restoring the documents and re-obtaining a Polish visa, Mozyryanin went to the police station to find out the fate of the seized phone. There he was detained again and six protocols on administrative offenses were drawn up, and then a criminal case was opened under the article.
The man left a comment under a post on social networks in which Belarusians were invited to visit the museum on wheels "Victory Train". The man wrote a message: "The traveling circus of Russian victorious madness." The pro-government telegram channel reports that the reason for the detention of Vladimir Rydukha was "insulting the memory of the feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War." It is also indicated that a criminal case has been initiated against the detainee. Where the man is now and what kind of article he is charged with is still unknown.
3rd year student of the Faculty of Psychology of Mogilev State University. On pro-government telegram channels, it is alleged that the reason was the participation of Shirokoy in peaceful protests in 2020. The guy himself on the "repentant" video said that the reason for the detention was the "distribution of extremist materials."
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