1.5 years in a general regime colony
Convicted by the court of the Smorgon district for insulting the president on the Vkontakte social network.
In the winter of 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom .
Convicted for insulting Lukashenka.
On July 29, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
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2 years of restriction of liberty .
He was one of the coordinators of the headquarters of Viktor Babariko in the presidential elections and a member of the Coordinating Council. The first time was detained in 2020. On August 28, 2020, he was detained and placed in custody, and on November 12 he was released under the guarantee of Voskresensky.
The second time Vitaly was detained in July 2021. Convicted on August 9, 2021. Entrepreneur, businessman, event manager, organized large corporate events.
The guy was accused of tearing down the national flag from the House of Culture in the agricultural town of Zhodinsky, breaking the flagpole.
1 year of restriction of freedom without a referral .
Served his sentence in August 2022.
In Ivatsevichi, Olga was convicted for comments in one of the telegram chats. She was charged with insulting a representative of the authorities, in this case, an employee of the Ivatsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, writes “First Region”. Among other things, the woman was charged with publishing “turd” emoticons, which she used to describe a police officer.
On February 9, 2022, the verdict was delivered in the second case. On April 8, 2022, an appeal was considered, the verdict was upheld. To the next 2 years, the house of chemistry added another 1 year, 50 basic fines and 1,000 rubles for moral damages.
Engaged in handicraft: cross-stitch, towels, pillow cases, bows, elastic bands, hairpins for girls. New orders are needed to work.
Alexander Shimanovich was found guilty of deliberately insulting the assistant prosecutor of the Frunzensky district , Alina Kasyanchik, on February 21, 2021, by posting the insulting “Bastard Curve” on the telegram channel. By doing this, he publicly humiliated her honor and dignity, and also undermined the prestige of the supervisory authorities.
2 years of restriction of liberty .
Andreev was found guilty of insulting the senior lieutenant of the GAI Gantsevichsky District Department of the Interior Volnich in Odnoklassniki: he wrote the word " Creature!" under Olga Karach's post. regarding this employee.
On May 20, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom .
Terekhov was found guilty of deliberately preparing and publishing a commentary text on January 19, 2021, containing an indecent insult towards Kornevich, containing an obscene form of verbal expression of a negative assessment of the latter. According to the prosecution, the purpose of the comment was to humiliate the honor and dignity of a government official. According to the prosecution, this also caused Kornevich moral suffering.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years of restriction of freedom with direction.
According to the prosecution, on May 15, 2020, Vasin posted an offensive comment in ok.ru for publication with a photo image of a police officer in uniform.
In May 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Zinovenko was found guilty of insulting an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs through a comment on the Odnoklassniki social network. The policeman was from Gantsevich.
A Mogilev resident was found guilty of leaving an insulting comment about a local policeman from Bobruisk in Olga Karach's group in Odnoklassniki in July last year while intoxicated.
Detained under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. According to the prosecution, repeatedly from August 31, 2020 to April 31, 2021, Khatko posted messages in the chats “Drivers 97”, “Military Town of Uruchcha” with proposals to block traffic, organize mass events.
On March 13, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Convicted in the "dance case" in Brest.
In the Leninsky District Court of Minsk on August 6, the chairman of the United Civil Party (UCP), a member of the main staff of the Coordination Council, Nikolai Kozlov, was sentenced to three months of arrest. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 407 of the Criminal Code for disclosing data in a criminal case against the Coordination Council, but the specific episodes of the charges are unknown, since the trial was held behind closed doors. Released on March 26, 2022 at the end of his sentence. At the end of July 2022, he was detained again. According to the indictment, on August 23, 2020, Kozlov, Kovaleva and Alekseeva “publicly shouted slogans, applauded loudly, were on the roadway, thereby blocking and impeding the movement of transport in Minsk, including the city passenger transport Minsktrans.”
The trial of the UCP members began on November 1, 2022 in the Pervomaisky district court of Minsk. On November 3, Judge Anastasia Kulik sentenced the political prisoner to two and a half years in prison.
On January 31, 2023, the Minsk City Court considered the appeal of the UCP leaders. The sentence remained unchanged, and the complaint was not satisfied.
In mid-February, the political prisoner was transferred to Mogilev penal colony No. 15. Immediately after quarantine, Nikolai was placed in a punishment cell until March 26.
At the beginning of May 2023, the political prisoner’s mother died. Nikolai was not released from the colony for the funeral.
At the beginning of July 2023, Nikolai’s associates said that the political prisoner was hospitalized with bronchitis.
In mid-December 2023, it became known that the politician was placed in the FCT for 2 months in November.
07/22/2024 released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
The first sentence is 3 months of arrest .
The second sentence is 2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
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