At first, Oleg was convicted under an administrative article, part 2 of article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution of extremist materials) for sending a telegram post from the Mustache Lukashenko channel in private messages to a friend. For this, the man was sentenced to 10 days of arrest. And already on March 22, 2023, the man was placed in a pre-trial detention center on criminal charges for comments about Lukashenka and the Belarusian military. According to human rights activists , there was such a comment about the military: "pi * duki" (it was with the asterisk sign that the comment imputed to Oleg was).
During Prokopchuk's stay in a pre-trial detention center, he had a third child, but this did not affect the court's decision.
On August 1, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
A native of Gomel, the commander of the second department of the fire rescue unit No. 26 of the Frunzensky district of Minsk. He was detained on February 7, 2023 in Minsk at the duty station.
On September 15, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison
Vyacheslav was accused of “uttering phrases degrading the honor and dignity” of A. Lukashenko while drunk in the presence of police officers. Recordings from police video recorders were later used in court as evidence of Solodky’s guilt. It is not specified what exact words Vyacheslav spoke.
On August 18, 2024, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was convicted of tearing down three Belarusian state flags from an educational institution, a retail facility and a post office.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in October 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 01.08.2023: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 19.09.2023: unknown.
- Associations
- Civil servants
An employee of the Ministry of Education. Sergei is accused of leaking data to the ChKB.
They detained Sergei brutally: several security forces suddenly ran into him when the man calmly walked around the courtyard of a high-rise building.
According to the pro-government telegram channels, a resident of Minsk wrote comments in "extremist" chats calling for forceful resistance to the internal affairs bodies (the security forces showed several messages dated August 2020), and also sent personal data to the bot of the Black Book of Belarus channel several judges.
Trial outcome 02.06.2023: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Pavel Yanchuk is from the Kamenets region, but lived in Brest. Before the trial, Pavel was placed in custody.
According to the prosecution , on April 17, 2022, Pavel Yanchuk wrote an offensive comment about A.L. Lukashenko under a publication in the telegram channel “Real Belarus”.
On July 18, the appeal was considered, the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
- Associations
- Workers
The man was accused of leaving an offensive comment about Lukashenko on the social network VKontakte, in which he accused the politician of committing a crime against humanity and an act of terrorism. Vadim was held in custody until the trial. He fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions.
Vadim has a secondary specialized education and worked as a welder.
According to human rights activists, he was released in September 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 01.06.2023: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
Detained for comments made in 2020.
Alexey was detained on May 3, 2023, and he was given a 15-day administrative arrest under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code (distribution of “extremist” products). He was never released, as a criminal case was opened against him for organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them, as well as for comments that he left on the Internet back in 2020: “Buy fireworks , checkers, lasers, helmets, shields, respirators and let’s fight back against fascism! We need to decentralize the exits in each district, block the roads, paralyze all traffic. ".
It is known that Alexey was born in Gomel, worked as a freight forwarder, and has a secondary specialized education.
On October 6, 2023, Alexey’s appeal was considered.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
On 23.04.2024, Dmitry will have a trial to change the regime to a stricter one, he will most likely be sent to a penal colony. According to human rights activists, he will be released in mid-December 2024.
Trial outcome 18.09.2023: 2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
She is a native of Ukraine, but has citizenship of the Republic of Belarus. On May 16, 2023, she was convicted of participating in protests.
On June 29, 2024, she was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 16.05.2023: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 28.07.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Gennady was accused of leaving offensive comments on a telegram channel in January 2022 under a photo with representatives of Lukashenko’s government.
Released upon expiration of sentence.
3 months of arrest
Convicted for reposting a picture showing a tombstone with a portrait of Lukashenko. For such "willfulness", Alexandra was found guilty of "insulting Lukashenko". The sentence was handed down by Judge Alesya Parfenenko. Alexandra will serve her sentence in a general regime.
During the trial, the defendant said that she found the text under the aforementioned picture funny, so she gave it a "like" and reposted it.
The sentence has come into force.
She was released in December 2023, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
According to human rights activists, she was released in the spring of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
- Associations
- Lawyers
Lawyer-entrepreneur. Dmitry was accused of inciting other social hostility or discord.
The essence of the accusation and the circumstances of the case, except for the fact that Dmitry left comments on social networks, are still unknown to human rights activists.
On August 22, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
On January 30, 2024, a new trial of Dmitry took place. This time he was accused of libel. The verdict is unknown. On April 17, 2024, consideration of the appeal is due to take place.
Trial outcome 23.05.2023: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 22.08.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 02.02.2024: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 17.04.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Alexander was charged with writing two comments under publications on the Belarus of the Brain Telegram channel. One message was written on February 24, 2022, under the news that Russian troops were entering Ukraine from Belarus. The second message, with which (according to the prosecution) Alexander publicly insulted A. Lukashenko, was published on April 7, 2022 (when Ukraine and Russia were negotiating a ceasefire) under the news with a quote from Lukashenko that "there can be no negotiations without the participation of Belarus."
On June 16, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 26.04.2023: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 16.06.2023: the sentence was upheld.