Arrested in the courtroom for performances with mannequins in the form of police officers.
Released after expiration of sentence.
1.5 years in prison .
Arrested in the courtroom for performances with mannequins in the form of police officers. Before that, she was under house arrest from January 26 to May 18, 2021. She was released on February 19, 2022 after serving her sentence in full.
1 year in prison .
The man was accused of insulting two police officers . The trial was held behind closed doors.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral.
Convicted for "insulting" Judge M.Yu. Filatov in the street, who was involved in the administrative persecution of protesters. Registered as an extremist. There are two minor children. On May 26, 2022, the punishment regime was changed due to disability. Transferred to "home chemistry".
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with a referral
Convicted for commenting on Instagram.
06/02/2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
2 years restriction with referral
The anesthesiologist-resuscitator of the 1st City Clinical Hospital Svyatoslav Udot was detained on April 22 by the employees of the Borovlya police department. The man is accused of “April 22, at about 2:20 am at the Borovlyany-6 bus stop, a man pasted an A4 sheet with the inscription “Freedom for Belarusians, basement for a rat.” Svyatoslav was also charged with setting fire to 4 "snuffboxes".
According to human rights activists, he was released in April 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony .
A resident of Vitebsk, convicted by the Vitebsk Regional Court for making an offensive comment on Vkontakte under a video about official Sergei Stashevsky, who forced members of the election commission to forge protocols.
First, he was sentenced to 1.5 years of "home chemistry", but after the protest of the prosecutor, the sentence was changed to chemistry with a referral.
10.10. 2022 released after the expiration of the sentence.
| 19.06.2022 | 10/10/2022 release |
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility
According to the indictment, on April 1, 2020, Sergei Khavansky left an insulting comment about Lukashenka on the website s13.ru (Grodno Blog).
On March 7, he began serving his sentence in an open-type correctional facility in Krupki.
In March 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
2 yearsof restriction of liberty with referral to an open correctional facility
The investigation found that on January 17, 2021, Vladislav posted a post in the chat of one of the telegram channels, in which he gave a harsh description of the judge of the Lida District Court Maxim Filatov. Earlier, on October 28, Filatov, under article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, part 3, sentenced Vladislav Shynkovich to administrative arrest. According to law enforcement agencies, Shynkovich thus humiliated the "honor and dignity" of Judge Filatov. Released on October 28, 2022 at the end of his term.
| 17.06.2021 | Registered as an extremist since 05/21/2021 |
| 23.05.2021 | Date of birth 06/06/1971 |
Arrested on April 16 for comments in a telegram channel chat.
Released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
| 15.09.2021 | September 14 was the "trial" on appeal. left the sentence unchanged - 3 years of chemistry with a settlement |
3 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
According to the materials of the case, at the beginning of February 2021, at night, Diana painted a drawing on the facade of the building of the transformer substation - a symbol of the joint headquarters, which caused property damage to Minskenergo. The amount of damage caused is 32 rubles 90 kopecks. During the investigation, Diana was fired by agreement of the parties.
| 27.10.2021 | cooperated with the investigation. |
1.5 restriction of freedom without referral to an open institution
According to the materials of the case, Taratun at the beginning of February 2021, at night, painted a drawing on the facade of the building of the transformer substation - a symbol of the joint headquarters, which caused property damage to Minskenergo. The amount of damage caused is 32 rubles 90 kopecks.
During the investigation, Taratun was fired from his job.
On May 26, 2023, he was released under an amnesty.
3 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution
Lived in Zaslavie. He was detained on December 21, 2020 for writing "riot police" on the wall, "3%" - damage for 8 rubles 23 kopecks. Two children.
09.19.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
| 11.08.2021 | Serving a sentence in IK-15 Mogilev, 11th detachment |
3 years in a general regime colony.
Vasily Pilts from Hrodna was charged under part 1 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism). Allegedly, on December 14 last year, Pilets pushed aggressive supporters of Alexander Lukashenko and activists of the Antivandal movement A. Galakhov and Olga Bondareva when they painted over the image of the white-red-white flag.
On February 12, Vasily Pilets was sentenced by the Oktyabrsky District Court of Grodno to one year of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open correctional institution (OFI). At the protest of Deputy Prosecutor D. Antonovich, the Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Grodno Regional Court changed the sentence to 1 year of restriction of liberty with a referral to the IUOT.
He was released on January 11, 2021, after the expiration of the sentence.
The young man was summoned to the police station, and he never left . Before the arrest, Vlad was searched, and all his equipment and telephones were confiscated. On March 16, 2021, he posted four Stories on his Instagram page, where, succumbing to emotions, he wrote messages containing expressions like “smash the riot police for their sisters”, “drown in blood”. He was prompted to such comments by the detention and beating of a former MTZ employee. But soon everything was removed. However, they still opened a criminal case for inciting social hatred.
Vlad is the owner of a trendy barbeshop in Petrikov.
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of 2023.
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