Denis Nikita was detained on the evening of January 25, 2024 for petty hooliganism. He was taken to the police department on duty. He did not agree with the detention and allegedly began to make insults and threats towards the police officers, while mentioning Lukashenko. According to the police, the 38-year-old man did this for a long time and humiliated him repeatedly. As a result, a criminal case was initiated. The man was tried publicly in the building of the Svisloch regional executive committee. The district newspaper reported on the trial: it said that “representatives of the public” and the media were present at the meeting. Denis Nikita admitted guilt.
It is reported that this is the 11th conviction of the accused. He was convicted of theft, torture, threats to kill, as well as for violating the requirements of preventive supervision, and was repeatedly brought to administrative responsibility. In addition, the man was deprived of parental rights in relation to two children.
3 years of imprisonment in a colony under strict security conditions
Leader of the liquidated Green Party.
Dmitry Kuchuk was detained near the Russian embassy, where the politician came to lay flowers, regarding the murder of Alexei Navalny. Tried to register during the “hopelessness” campaign, made efforts to start a campaign to collect signatures for the release of political prisoners.
Dmitry Kuchuk became the seventh leader of the Green party to be jailed.
Sergei was accused of writing several messages in the Telegram messenger. The meeting took place in the building of the Berezovsky Cooperative Industry Combine. After the trial, prosecutor Alexander Krutko gave the workers a lecture “and reminded them of responsibility for extremist crimes.”
Sergei is 58 years old, he comes from Ivanovo and lives in Bereza.
Before the trial he was under house arrest.
3 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
Vladimi reposted several publications on Odnoklassniki allegedly insulting Alexander Lukashenko, “acting with the aim of discrediting and causing damage to the authority of state power.” These were a video from the public “Belarus Political”, text and photos from the public “STOP LUKA”. He did not block access to the page.
He was released from custody in the courtroom.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
Alexander's name appeared in the court schedule. The man is accused of donating to help Ukraine and to an “extremist group.”
It is noteworthy that the man made a donation in support of the “extremist formation” before May 2021, when there were no extremist formations in Belarus at all. Now the man faces from five to ten years in prison. The trial will begin on March 19 in the Minsk City Court.
Alexander has a small business in Molodechno: as an individual entrepreneur he is engaged in cargo transportation on his own bus. He is raising two children: a young daughter who is finishing sixth grade, and a son who should now be in high school.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
The man was accused of liking and reposting a publication on Odnoklassniki with text about Lukashenko, in which he was accused of committing a serious and especially serious crime. The court saw this as slander against the politician.
Before the trial, Alexander was under recognizance not to leave. He fully admitted his guilt.
Alexander Zakharchik has a secondary education and works as a driver.
3 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility
At the trial, Tatyana was accused of the fact that in October 2021 , “through correspondence on the social network Facebook, she intentionally and illegally disseminated information about personal data constituting a personal secret of an investigator of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Mogilev District Executive Committee without his consent in connection with his official activities.” " As a result, an “unlimited circle of people” became familiar with the policeman’s personal data.
Presumably, before the trial, the woman was kept in Baranavichy pre-trial detention center No. 6: she herself lives in either the Lyakhovichi or Luninets districts, but in December 2023 she was tried twice in the Baranavichy court under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (the second time she was tried via Skype). This follows from the decisions of the Baranavichy court regarding Makarova. In those administrative cases, the woman was given 10 days of arrest, a fine of 20 basic (740 rubles) and her phone was confiscated.
2,5 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
Gorelov was the head of the Belinvestbank directorate for the Gomel region. The last news about him dates back to February 2023, and in December 2023, Pavel Yurkovets, the former head of Belinvestbank in Mozyr, was appointed head instead of him.
The trial of Oleg Gorelov began on February 8 in the Gomel Regional Court. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
10 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions.
He was detained by a traffic police officer on November 18, 2023, while riding a bicycle (according to a traffic police officer, while intoxicated) and taken to the Pruzhanskaya Central District Hospital, where he insulted Lukashenko. Before the trial he was under recognizance not to leave.
2 years of restriction of freedom with direction
Sergei and his wife were detained in November 2023. Before the trial, Sergei was in custody, and Tatyana was under recognizance, since the family had two minor children.
According to the prosecution , in August 2020, Sergei and Tatyana took part in an unauthorized mass event, together with the protesters they marched through public places in the city, the central square, and Zhilibert Park. At the same time, they showed a pre-made poster measuring approximately 2.5 x 3 meters, on which a text containing slanderous information against the president was written in black and red colors, thereby deliberately spreading slanderous information against him in connection with his execution powers of the head of state.
The accused Sergei Chizh fully admitted his guilt at the court hearing. He explained that the poster was heavy, and it was soon rolled up, and after the procession, Sergei burned it.
Tatyana Chizh did not admit guilt to the charges, explaining that she was depressed due to the serious illness of her mother, who is disabled.
They were identified from photographs from the Internet.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
Vadim Cherevko was detained in December 2023. In the “repentance video” on December 18, the detainee says that he has the position of deputy director for development of a company engaged in the design of control systems and unmanned systems. The man was forced to admit to participating in the protests and also say that marijuana was found at his home.
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