Military analyst Egor Lebedk was awarded 15 days of administrative arrest under Article 24.3 of the Administrative Code. After a day, Yegor did not come out and was detained on a criminal case of promoting extremist activities for comments for Euroradio.
In October 2022, channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus published the news that another criminal case was opened against Egor on the basis of repetition, and noted that each interview by an extremist forms a separate crime.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
3 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
According to the case file, in September 2021, Sergey Tsigib was flipping through a news feed on a social network and saw a video: «A cop-policeman who will receive 2 life sentences». He put a like, as a result of which the video was already displayed on Tsigib's personal page in ok.ru. It is worth noting that Tsigib himself has never taken part in protest actions, has not been detained on political administrative matters.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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.
2. 5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was convicted for posting "offensive" photographs of the national flag of the Republic of Belarus and comments about it on the Internet in November 2021.
He served his sentence in IK-22, and was transferred to another correctional facility in December 2023. The location is being specified.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Detained in the winter of 2022. The man is accused that in September last year, being in Zhlobin, in vk.com under the message about a fatal shootout between Fedosyuk, an employee of the State Security Committee, and Andrei Zeltser, an IT specialist, he left the following comment: «The people have opened a count». Subsequently, this comment was interpreted as a call to fight with law enforcement agencies. Previously, he was convicted several times for drug trafficking.
3,5 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.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Andrey was detained by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption for posting extremist materials on his page vk.com. Andrey published a video of Lukashenko taking the oath in 1994 under a white-red-white flag.
He was convicted for participating in the Grodno Marches and comments in the chat.
The man did not admit guilt, but confirmed only the fact of writing comments on August 11 and 12, 2020. The man's participation in the Grodno Marches was not confirmed after watching videos from events in the city.
It became known that a laboratory and forensic medical examination was carried out in June 2022. She confirmed Andrey's mental illness. However, he was convicted anyway, and also included in the list of individuals and organizations involved in terrorist activities.
In August 2023, she was transferred to the prison regime.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
For the first time, Alexander Petushkov was detained in January 2022, after which the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs published a video with him. The reason for the detention was his comments about the events in Kazakhstan.
Alexander was detained again in April 2022. The reason for the initiation of a criminal case were reposts and comments with calls for a strike, the shutdown of enterprises, and the renewal of protests. He also offered to remove the shoulder straps to law enforcement officers and generals. In relation to Lukashenko, he used the words «usurper» and «illegitimate».
7,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to the prosecution version, from July 15 to December 27, 2021, he posted comments under publications in chats recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus, where he insulted Lukashenko and other government officials and their relatives, and also left threats against officials performing their official duties.
The publications contained messages related to the abuse of the National Anthem of the Republic of Belarus and the National Flag of the Republic of Belarus.
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Detained in the case of «railway partisans».
It is known that the man lives in the village of Khodakovo, he has a small child.
During the arrest, he was shot through the knee joints.
The family believes that Vitaly has nothing to do with the articles, and connects the detention with the revenge of a local judge, as well as the fact that Vitaly previously had a criminal record.
Details of the case are unknown.
16 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime and 11 100 BYN penalty.
According to the charge, Ivan gave the administrators of the telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus information about the personal life of a close relative of a police officer. The collection and dissemination of this information without permission led to harm to the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the victim.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted for messages in the chat «Grodno dlia zhizni» with calls for direct action actions, as well as about the manufacture of Molotov cocktails. He pleaded guilty at the trial, but refused to testify.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with reinforced regime.
Previously, he was brought to administrative responsibility for participating in protests.
According to the investigation, from September 2021 to January 2022, Vasily posted messages insulting government officials, including senior officials of the Republic of Belarus, in destructive Telegram channels.
He also expressed threats of violence against employees of the law enforcement and judicial systems, while publicly humiliating their honor and dignity. In addition, the man called on citizens to take action aimed at organizing mass unrest. In extremist Telegram channels, he looked for people ready to commit “crimes,” but did not complete his intention, as he was detained by law enforcement officers.
Monetary compensation for moral damage in the total amount of 32,000 Belarusian rubles was also recovered from the accused in favor of the victims.
On January 31, 2023, another trial of a pensioner began in Dzerzhinsk. This time he was accused under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a representative of authority).
On February 13, 2023, the second verdict was announced.
On March 23, 2023, the Drogichinsky district court began to consider the case of a political prisoner under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, Vasily Demidovich was placed in the Drogichin temporary detention center.
In April, the political prisoner was transferred to Gomel pre-trial detention center-3 . On April 20, 2023, the Sovetsky District Court of Gomel began to consider another case of a pensioner. He is charged with Art. 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and Art. 391 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. On May 2, another verdict was handed down.
On May 5, 2023, the fifth trial of Demidovich will begin - the man is accused again under Art. 369 CC . The trial will take place in Pukhovichi, the judge is Olga Babuk .
The next meeting is scheduled for May 24, 2023 in Pukhovichi.
On July 5, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court considered the appeal of the political prisoner by judge Ruslan Tsaruk.
On August 23, 2023, the Nesvizh District Court heard the sixth criminal case against a political prisoner.
In Starye Dorogi, on October 19, 2023 , the seventh trial of Vasily will begin . He is charged under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official) and Art. 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting Lukashenko). The case will be considered by judge Natalya Zyk .
In total, Vasily was sentenced to 7 years in prison, while the result of the last two trials is still unknown.
Due to the fact that the political prisoner was included in the “list of terrorists”, he cannot make money transfers. In addition, Vasily has no relatives who could support him. Over the past year, he has gone through dozens of stages. Political prisoners are transported under difficult conditions, this leaves a very bad imprint on Vasily’s health.
On December 15, 2023, the trial of Vasily, which began in October, resumed in Starye Dorogi.
1) 6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
2) 1 year of imprisonment with a penalty of 1 110 BYN.
By partial addition of punishments, he was finally sentenced to 6,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
3) 2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
By partial addition, the pensioner was finally sentenced to 7 years in prison.
According to the materials of the prosecution, during 2021, Anna posted offensive comments to A.G. Lukashekno and other government representative and law enforcement agencies in several telegram channels. On July 10, 2023, Anna will be tried again under the article for "insulting".
In June 2023, Kondratenko was returned from the Gomel women's IK-4 to the Mogilev prison in order to be tried in the second criminal case. This time, she was charged with a comment on the Punishers of Belarus telegram channel in relation to Andrey Bagrayonok, an inspector of the traffic police of the Svetlogorsk District Department of Internal Affairs. A post about him appeared on September 27, 2021, on September 28, Kondratenko left a comment.
The second sentence to Anna is 1 year in prison and 50 basic fines.
By absorbing a less severe punishment with a more severe one, in the aggregate, Kondratenko remained the same term of 3 years in prison in a general regime colony. In both criminal cases, the woman now owes the state more than 5,000 Belarusian rubles.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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