According to the indictment, from September 20 to September 27, 2020, a man posted 13 messages in the Telegram chat of the Punishers group, in which he “negatively assessed” and “incited illegal criminal actions” against police officers, military, civil servants and their families. Thus, one of the messages contained the text: “We are [beaten], and we give them flowers.”
4 years in a penal colony (taking into account the unserved part of the sentence under another sentence)
Aviation Academy student. Khomichkova’s case concerns the events of July 14, 2020, when the Central Election Commission refused to register candidates for the presidential elections. According to the indictment, Vladimir Khomichkov was detained for participating in an unauthorized mass event on the steps of the KFC restaurant at the intersection of Nemiga Street and Pobediteley Avenue. Then he became involved in a criminal case.
Vladimir's regime was tightened to imprisonment for a period of 1 year.
4 years restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional institution ("chemistry")
A 20-year-old citizen of the Russian Federation was detained on May 5 in Minsk, a search was conducted in a rented apartment and placed in a KGB pre-trial detention center. The guy was charged under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (organization of actions grossly violating public order), according to which he faces up to three years in prison. In November 2021, the article was changed to 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Transferred in June 2022 to enhanced regime for 3 years.
Trial outcome 27.12.2021: 11 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 25.02.2022: the sentence was upheld.
Regime change trial 15.06.2022: 3 years of prison regime.
He was arrested on January 2, 2021. He was accused of participating in a telegram chat of a “radical direction”.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
The man was accused of making a repost on his page on the social network VKontakte on August 23 with an image and someone else’s comment about an employee of the Baranovichi District Department of Internal Affairs. They sentenced him to 2 years of chemotherapy and 1000 rubles in moral compensation. The sentence came into force on July 27. Since August 16, he has been in the IUOT in Vitebsk.
Released on January 11, 2022 due to the amnesty law on December 7, 2021.
In April 2024, he was detained again for his participation in the 2020 protests.
19.08.2021 | The Moscow Court of Brest, on appeal, admitted that there was simply a repost of the picture and without publication by the accused. But he left everything unchanged. |
09.06.2021 | TDF Sizo 6 Baranovichi from April 8 to May 25, 2021 |
2.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
Works at TUT.BY since 2008. At first she was a legal adviser and then became a director. In 2017, Lyudmila headed Tut By Media. The trial in closed session lasted more than two months - a total of 37 sessions were held. The essence of the charges against Chekina is unknown.
12 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Journalist. Marina Zolotova joined Tut.by in 2004 and soon became its editor-in-chief. The trial in closed session lasted more than two months - a total of 37 sessions were held. The charge of "tax evasion on an especially large scale" was dropped from Marina. But the essence of the charges against Zolotova is unknown.
12 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Aleksey Mikhalkevich was detained by the GUBOPiK in the village of Doroshki, Minsk region on December 16, 2020 “on suspicion of involvement in the riots that took place in Minsk.”
5 years of imprisonment in conditions of a reinforced regime .
Arrested on September 13, 2020 for the events in Minsk in August. According to the case file , Falkin, Litvinenko, Matyukh and Borisov, having entered into an agreement, planned participation in protests, determined the route, coordinated actions in case of detention. The defendants were in a telegram chat called "Hour X", where the discussion took place. In this chat, according to the investigation, an attack on police officers was being prepared.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Ovcharov and Huseynov were found guilty of calling for participation in mass riots on September 23 from 21.00 to 23.00, which were planned in advance under the guise of mass events, blocking communications. This caused a disruption in the work of "Minsktrans". Also - "restricted the right of respectable citizens to a peaceful rest and free movement", resisted the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to the indictment, in September they prepared a car where they kept the weapons of crime, equipment, having studied the rules for their use in advance. For example, Huseynov was near the metro station. "Pushkinskaya" in body armor and knee pads for defense.
5 years in prison .
Actor of the Polesky Drama Theater, volunteer. He was detained on May 5, 2021. He is known in Pinsk as an organizer of cultural events and a volunteer at the city hospital; he is raising a child with a disability.
According to the indictment, on the night of August 9-10, 2020, residents of Pinsk (including Sergey) allegedly took part in mass riots that involved violence against police officers, pogroms and destruction of property near the building of the Pinsk District Executive Committee, thereby grossly violating public order. The protesters hit police officers with their hands, feet and various objects: boards, sticks, street trash cans, fragments of paving slabs and concrete parapet slabs, bottles, stones, metal products and reinforcement. After this, vehicles and other property belonging to the Department of Internal Affairs, individuals and legal entities were destroyed and damaged.
As a result, 109 police officers were recognized as victims in the case; they suffered minor bodily injuries that did not result in short-term health problems.
Trial outcome 06.07.2024: 4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
a resident of Brest, who was detained on February 8, 2021 for allegedly throwing green paint at a police car.
4.5 years in prison
Andrei Lyubetsky was detained on the morning of May 4 at his home. His wife Natalya and four children had previously gone abroad. He is suspected of insult.
According to investigators, the surgeon “repeatedly publicly spoke about his decision to violate the medical oath given to him... and in every possible way interfere with the provision of medical care to police officers and members of their families, and called on his colleagues to commit similar illegal actions.” Lyubetsky is also accused of participating in at least eight protests in Minsk and writing posts on social networks that were classified as insults and inciting hatred.
On April 7, 2022, the trial of Andrei Lyubetsky began in the Minsk City Court. On April 18, judge Svetlana Cherepanova sentenced the doctor to five years in prison in a general regime colony. This is exactly the punishment that prosecutor Zhanna Baranova requested for Lyubetsky.
On May 11, 2022, he was transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 1 to Zhodino ST No. 8, and a week later to Mogilev Prison No. 4. Since mid-July 2022, Andrei served his sentence in Bobruisk colony No. 2.
On June 26, in Bobruisk, they considered the case of replacing Andrey’s detention regime with a prison one. Judge Pavel Kartinin decided to transfer the political prisoner to prison until the end of his sentence.
5 years in prison.
Inhabitant of the Polotsk region. According to the indictment, from October 2019 to July 2020, Lyutsky posted comments on the Internet calling for violence against law enforcement officers and the president, as well as insults against the head of state.
5 years in a penal colony
Arrested April 8, 2021. According to Art. 209 the case has been dragging on since 2016, when Vlad did a TV project with ONT. The case was closed, but in August 2020 it was abruptly resumed. Also charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Vlad is a blogger, poet - writer. On the portal of the Ridero.ru online store, books are sold both in printed and electronic form: the story "Ambidexter" and the collection of poems "Poetry Through the Hole", under the pseudonym Vlad Savinn.
On October 26, 2022, a new criminal case was considered against the blogger and producer. Now he's on trial for insulting Lukashenka in a poem in an appeal against this verdict. Judge Victoria Pakunova appointed the man another two years in prison.
22.12.2022 | In the recent past, he crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and is actively fond of sports. He loves art, especially the artist Vincent van Gogh. He is a person with a strong character, empathic, ready to help not only relatives, but also strangers. |
1) 8 years in prison under enhanced regime .
2) 10 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
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