According to the prosecution, on May 27, 2021, the police came to Natalia's house. There, a woman "publicly insulted" Lukashenka with the words "we have a fucking state" and "a fucking president", which, according to the state prosecution, committed a crime under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code. An hour after uttering these words, the investigators were already conducting an inspection in the woman's apartment. During it, according to the prosecution, "wishing to express her superiority and permissiveness," Turova tore up the protocol. So the woman "damaged an official document" (part 1 of article 377 of the Criminal Code). She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.
1 year and 1 month in prison .
A resident of Lida, was detained on May 21, 2021 for insult. On October 28, 2020, he was sentenced to 3 days for a march. Then he was arrested on a criminal case.
Trial outcome 07.09.2021: 5 years of imprisonment under enhanced security conditions.
He was detained on August 4, 2021 as part of a criminal case. The trial was held behind closed doors.
According to the prosecution, on August 25, 2020, “in one of the social networks, under a photo in uniform, the deputy head of the police department of the Kobrin district executive committee posted a comment that contradicts universal morality, established rules of communication between people, which is an abnormal form of speech expression, has a negative assessment of the victim.”
She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
A resident of Gomel, convicted for insulting a representative of the authorities. Pardoned and released from punishment on July 13, 2022.
1 year and 6 months of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional institution ("chemistry")
journalist of Radio Svaboda. He began working for Svoboda in the early 1990s. Prior to that, he worked as a department head and executive secretary in the Znamya Yunosti newspaper, and was one of the founders of the RID news agency (Advertising and Digest). In the summer of 2020, he actively covered socio-political events in Belarus, hosted the then popular streams of Radio Liberty. In August 2020, he was deprived of accreditation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with most journalists from foreign media.
Oleg was detained on July 16, 2021 during mass searches of independent journalists in Minsk and other cities of Belarus. After administrative arrest, he was released on bail. Arrested on December 23, 2021.
09/21/2022 released by pardon
1.5 years in a general regime colony
Resident of Molodechno. He was judged for comments in the local telegram chat "Molodechno for Life Chat". The victims were the Molodechno policemen and the Grodno OMON officer, as well as public figures - Lukashenka, Yermoshina and Karpenkov.
4 years in prison .
Inhabitant of Stolin. He pulled the national flag that hung on the mall. The pole broke, the flag fell. On September 15, 21, he was pardoned.
1 year restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution
According to the prosecution, in one of the telegram channels, a resident of Brest, Yevgeny Poshelyuk, published insulting comments about a judge from Brest. On September 15, 21, the punishment in the form of restriction of freedom with a referral to the IUOT was replaced with "home chemistry".
2 years with referral to an open correctional institution.
A resident of Orsha, has two minor children. Convicted under Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official). He was found guilty of insulting the head of the Orsha Inspectorate for Juvenile Affairs Vishnevsky in a comment in the chat "Orsha 97%" in a telegram. On September 15, 21, he was pardoned.
01.06.2021 | I am registered as prone to extremist and other destructive activities |
Sentenced to 1.5 years of restriction of freedom with direction to an open type correctional facility
A 53-year-old resident of Pruzhany, convicted of insulting the president. She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.
1 year in prison .
On May 23, 2021, Sofya Sapega and Roman Protasevich were detained in Minsk - they were flying from Athens to Vilnius, but the plane made an emergency landing in Belarus after a false report of a bomb on board. The trial was held behind closed doors. As a result, the girl was charged under two articles (initially there were seven).
During the trial in Grodno, Sophia was ordered to pay compensation to the victims for moral damage in the amount of 167,500 rubles (more than 65 thousand dollars) and a court fee of 7,488 rubles.
06/07/2023 was pardoned.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Convicted for commenting on a telegram channel about the situation with the beating of a pregnant woman by a policeman. Pardoned 09/15/2021
1.5 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
Roman Protasevich is a Belarusian blogger and journalist.
In the summer of 2020, during mass protests against the falsification of the presidential elections, he was the editor-in-chief of the NEXTA telegram channel. After leaving NEXTA, he became the editor-in-chief of the Belarus Brain telegram channel, which was previously administered by political prisoner Igor Losik . Both channels were recognized as extremist by the Belarusian authorities.
On May 23, 2021, as a result of the forced landing by the Belarusian authorities of a Ryanair passenger airliner flying on the Athens-Vilnius route, Roman Protasevich was detained at the National Airport of Minsk by representatives of the special services. It is known that Sofia Sapieha, a student at the European Humanities University, was arbitrarily detained with him.
On May 3, 2023, the verdict was announced to the novel, until the verdict came into force, Roman was left under house arrest.
On May 22, 2023, he was pardoned.
8 years of imprisonment in a colony.
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