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Olga was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "slander" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Svetlana was detained and convicted for, according to investigators, scattering about 45 metal screws near the Minsk prosecutor's office on December 13, 2020. As a result, the car driven by the victim Klintsevich ran over them, and two tires were punctured.
Olga was found guilty of insulting a government official for her comments in a Viber group about the actions of Dmitry Voronov, head of the State Automobile Inspectorate department of the Stolbtsy District Department of Internal Affairs, during the dispersal of a peaceful demonstration in Stolbtsy in August 2020.
Darya was found guilty in March 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social network VKontakte in the group "My Country Belarus." The comment was directed at Sergei Kolyada, a senior district police inspector at the Pruzhany District Executive Committee, and Tarasevich, a district police inspector at the same department. The comment read: "Scum".
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Svetlana was found guilty in March 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official. According to the charges, on October 26, 2020, she left the comment "Shoot yourself, b*tch" under a photo of Minsk Regional Executive Committee OMON Sergeant Vitaly Fyodorov on Facebook "with the intent to humiliate the honor and dignity of both the victim personally and the entire Ministry of Internal Affairs." In addition to her restricted freedom, Svetlana was also ordered to pay compensation for moral damages to the "victim."
Lyudmila was found guilty of insulting a government official for a comment she left on the Telegram channel "Pruzhany/Pruzhana" under a photograph of Ruzhany police officer Dmitry Kazarenko, using the word "cattle." According to the prosecution, she caused him "mental suffering, which manifested itself in personal anguish and the anguish of his loved ones, as well as feelings of bitterness and resentment."
Lyudmila was found guilty in March 2021 of "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." According to investigators, she "used physical violence against one of the officers—repeatedly grabbing his arms and jacket, pushing him away from the police vehicle, striking him in the back at least three times with her hands, and causing physical pain and battery. She then repeatedly prevented the police vehicle from closing its doors, threw a backpack out of the vehicle, struck the body and windows of the vehicle at least four times, and pressed her hands against the hood of the vehicle, thereby preventing the officers from driving away."
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Elena was found guilty in March 2021 of insulting a government official for her comment, "Small ISIS, a tribunal is just around the corner," addressed to Vitaly Fyodorov, a senior sergeant with the Minsk City Executive Committee's OMON police department, under a Facebook post in which she wrote that he would be happy to kill people. Elena pleaded not guilty at the trial.
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Alevtina, a technical writer and copywriter, was found guilty in April 2021 of a criminal offense under the article on insulting a government official for a comment she left in a Telegram chat: "No one will ever be a bigger slut than Yermoshina."
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Anastasia was found guilty in a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official. According to investigators, on September 3, 2020, she posted an Instagram story insulting Daria Bondarchuk, a member of the Grodno OMON (Special Purpose Police Unit). On December 8, 2020, a group of OMON officers and other security forces arrived at Anastasia's apartment and conducted a search. She was then detained and held for three days in the Grodno temporary detention facility.
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Ekaterina was found guilty in 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article "insulting a judge" for publishing a comment containing obscene language directed at Judge Poleshchuk.
Olga was found guilty of insulting a government official for a comment addressed to Vadim Prigara, head of the Molodechno District Police Department, on the social network Odnoklassniki, under Olga Karach's post. The "thumbs down" reaction, as well as the comment itself, which Olga deleted and which was not read in court, were considered insults.
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Anna was found guilty in June 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article "Desecration of State Symbols," specifically for altering a verse of the national anthem on her personal Twitter account, beginning it with the phrase "We are extremists—peaceful people..." According to the charges, she committed a mockery of the national symbol—the anthem.
Marina was found guilty in July 2021 of a criminal case under the article "insulting a government official" for a comment left in August 2020 on the social network Odnoklassniki addressed to police major A.V. Bagraenko, a traffic police inspector with the Svetlogorsk District Department of Internal Affairs. According to the prosecution, this constituted a public insult.
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According to the investigation, in October 2020, Irina made an emotional comment on a Telegram channel about two police officers she knew: Andrei Sebetsky, deputy chief of the Leninsky District Police Department in Bobruisk, and Sergei Rudko, head of the law enforcement and crime prevention department of the Bobruisk City Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate.
A few days later, they came to search her and informed her that a criminal case had been opened.
In May 2021, Irina was found guilty of "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom. She was also ordered to pay compensation for moral damages to the "victims." In court, Irina confirmed that she had left the comment but noted that she did not consider it offensive.