Artur was detained in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against the falsification of the presidential elections that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
He was released in July 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Arrested in the courtroom for performances with mannequins in the form of police officers. Before that, she was under house arrest from January 26 to May 18, 2021. She was released on February 19, 2022 after serving her sentence in full.
The anesthesiologist-resuscitator of the 1st City Clinical Hospital Svyatoslav Udot was detained on April 22 by the employees of the Borovlya police department. The man is accused of “April 22, at about 2:20 am at the Borovlyany-6 bus stop, a man pasted an A4 sheet with the inscription “Freedom for Belarusians, basement for a rat.” Svyatoslav was also charged with setting fire to 4 "snuffboxes".
According to human rights activists, he was released in April 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
A resident of Vitebsk, convicted by the Vitebsk Regional Court for making an offensive comment on Vkontakte under a video about official Sergei Stashevsky, who forced members of the election commission to forge protocols.
First, he was sentenced to 1.5 years of "home chemistry", but after the protest of the prosecutor, the sentence was changed to chemistry with a referral.
10.10. 2022 released after the expiration of the sentence.
19.06.2022
10/10/2022 release
Trial outcome:
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility
The investigation found that on January 17, 2021, Vladislav posted a post in the chat of one of the telegram channels, in which he gave a harsh description of the judge of the Lida District Court Maxim Filatov. Earlier, on October 28, Filatov, under article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, part 3, sentenced Vladislav Shynkovich to administrative arrest. According to law enforcement agencies, Shynkovich thus humiliated the "honor and dignity" of Judge Filatov. Released on October 28, 2022 at the end of his term.
Vasily Pilts from Hrodna was charged under part 1 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism). Allegedly, on December 14 last year, Pilets pushed aggressive supporters of Alexander Lukashenko and activists of the Antivandal movement A. Galakhov and Olga Bondareva when they painted over the image of the white-red-white flag.
On February 12, Vasily Pilets was sentenced by the Oktyabrsky District Court of Grodno to one year of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open correctional institution (OFI). At the protest of Deputy Prosecutor D. Antonovich, the Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Grodno Regional Court changed the sentence to 1 year of restriction of liberty with a referral to the IUOT.
He was released on January 11, 2021, after the expiration of the sentence.
The young man was summoned to the police station, and he never left . Before the arrest, Vlad was searched, and all his equipment and telephones were confiscated. On March 16, 2021, he posted four Stories on his Instagram page, where, succumbing to emotions, he wrote messages containing expressions like “smash the riot police for their sisters”, “drown in blood”. He was prompted to such comments by the detention and beating of a former MTZ employee. But soon everything was removed. However, they still opened a criminal case for inciting social hatred.
Valentina was first convicted in May 2021 for “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order” in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. At that time, the participants were singing and dancing in a circle, and a water cannon was used against them.
In April 2024, it became known that Valentina was detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest against falsifications in the presidential elections. In August of the same year, she was sentenced to imprisonment, counting the previously imposed punishment in the form of "house arrest" towards her term.
She was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 07.05.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, unknown rubles of compensation.
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