According to the indictment, Dmitry Sonchik insulted and threatened the lives of four people in comments on one of the Telegram channels during 2020-2021. The victims were A. Perekhvatko from the Ivatsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, the head of the Nesvizh District Department of Internal Affairs A. Grinkevich, senior lieutenant of the Nesvizh District Department of Internal Affairs R. Pranevich and an employee of the GUBOPiK A. Aleksa.
In the last word, the only thing that Sonchik said was congratulating his sister and mother, who were in the courtroom, on the upcoming Mother's Day. All the time he was behind bars in handcuffs.
On March 23, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years in prison .
He was detained on May 30, 2021: he was accused of planting a man who reached for a red-green flag in order to rip it off the Urech House of Culture and Creativity on May 29, 2021. After the arrest, the man spent three days in the pre-trial detention center of the Lyubansky District Department of Internal Affairs, after which he was released pending trial.
1 year of restriction of freedom with referral to open institutions.
On September 30, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
- Associations
- IT staff
Technician-programmer from Sennitsa. It is known from the materials of the prosecution that Garmazinsky, using the Internet and a mobile phone in the telegram channel “My Country Belarus”, on November 18, 2020 and January 18, and also on March 23, 2021, posted several offensive messages that contained negative assessments of the first person of the state . One of them concerned the situation with the Ice Hockey World Championship. He was taken into custody in the courtroom.
06/05/2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
- Associations
- Retirees
Retired from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Graduated from Masherov Voronezh State University.
He was charged under Articles 342, 368, and 369 of the Criminal Code. He remains in custody during the trial.
Yakov is interested in journalism, physics, religion, philosophy, and cars.
According to human rights activists, he was released on June 12, 2023.
Convicted of insulting a government official during execution.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024.
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2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.
Resident of Minsk. Convicted under Article 368 (Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus).
10/13/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.
According to the indictment , Andrei Lomsha marked several publications with “offensive” statements with the “class” tag on the social network Odnoklassniki.
He was released at the end of 2024 .
Convicted for a comment on Telegram.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2025 .
was detained on March 12, 2021. Accused of installing metal threads, wires and other similar objects on railway tracks.
Released in October 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
According to the prosecution, on April 22, 2021, no later than 6 hours 15 minutes, Nikolay Kovalevsky, while on the territory of the Belmit branch of CJSC Servolux Agro, posted the comment “drish” on the user’s page of the social network VKontakte under the publication in the Nexta group.
07/05/2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom.
Deputy Director for Production. Arrested May 26, 2021. Accused of participating in protests on November 1, 2020. A Minsker was detained on May 26 as an assistant in organizing protests for sending a video of the special equipment of the security forces moving along Nezalezhnosti Avenue to the telegram channel Nexta and Nexta Live and sending a message with the name of the special equipment. But during the search, Trusov was found about two grams of marijuana, which he himself gave to the security forces during the search. The essence of the accusations under parts 1 of articles 328 and 329 of the Criminal Code is that Trusov grew a narcotic plant for the purpose of its sale and use. Trusov has grown at least three seedlings with the help of a personal computer case, light and other necessary equipment for growing cannabis. He also kept drugs in his car.
In September 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
2.5 years in prison.
- Associations
- Activists
Anna was arrested in October 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened following a protest on September 13, 2020, in Brest, where people were singing and dancing in circles and were attacked with a water cannon. She was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
Anna was released in February 2023, having fully served her sentence.
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.
- Associations
- Civil servants
- Parents of minors
Grodno resident. Emergencies Ministry employee. He was detained on September 30, 2021 , in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment. Alexander liked one of the comments.
At the end of November 2021, information appeared about Alexander's transfer from Zhodino Investigative Prison No. 8 to Prison No. 1 in Grodno.
On June 28, 2022, the KGB added Alexander to the list of persons "involved in terrorist activities", and in September - to "extremist" ones.
On August 12, 2022, the political prisoner was sentenced to 1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. In accordance with the decision of the judge of the Grodno Regional Court, he must also pay a fine of 50 basic units (1,600 rubles). It is known that the state prosecutor asked to punish the political prisoner with four years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
10/17/2022 released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Resident of Mogilev. According to the materials of the case , Litvishchenko, in one of the telegram channels recognized as extremist, left the word "scum" addressed to the capital's policeman, which the investigating authorities considered an insult. In another telegram channel, recognized as extremist, Alexander Litvishchenko used the word "schmuck" in relation to Alexander Lukashenko. Interestingly, the linguistic expertise ambiguously assessed this expression of the Mogilev resident: the expert linguist did not show anywhere that this word is offensive, emphasizing that it carries a negative assessment using reduced vocabulary.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
