The first episode happened back in January 2022. Then Baranovsky made a transfer from his bank account to an unnamed structure recognized as an extremist formation. The exact amount of the transfer is unknown. In April 2022, Baranovsky made a donation to the account of the Kalinovsky Regiment. It is known that the man was detained in the spring of 2023 by employees of the Office of the State Security Committee for the Mogilev region.
5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.
She was detained under administrative article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (Petty hooliganism) on October 31 and sentenced to 30 days, after which she was not released. Presumably detained under a criminal article for donations.
It is also known that Tatyana was detained in June 2020 because white-red-white stickers were found in her bag. According to the protocol , Tatyana “during the preventive conversation, screamed loudly, waved her arms, used obscene language, jumped out of her chair, and did not react to the remark made to stop illegal actions.” Tatyana, in turn, denied this through tears, because, in her words, “she had never sworn in her life.”
Oleg was accused of desecration of state symbols (flag).
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Yarmoshuk was first detained in this case on March 23, 2023, and was held for three days. Then they released him, but on June 11, 2023 they detained him again and took him into custody.
According to the indictment, on March 1, 2022, Yarmoshuk downloaded several files from the ItArmy of Ukraine website that allow DDoS attacks. Then he launched the program on his computer “at least 8 times,” which “broke the protection system against DDoS attacks” and “the operation of unidentified Internet resources of the Russian Federation was disrupted.” Thus, according to the state prosecution, Yarmoshuk “used malicious, potentially dangerous programs.” Also on August 19, 2020, Yarmoshuk transferred about $60 to the BySOL initiative via Facebook. 7 months later (March 12, 2021), the Belarusian authorities recognized the BySOL Foundation as an “extremist formation.” The fact that at the time of the money transfer BySOL was not an “extremist formation” does not bother the state prosecution.
4 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
He was detained on October 31, 2023 and sentenced under an administrative article to 15 days, after which a criminal case was opened against him and he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center for political reasons.
Due to the closed nature of the trial, the essence of the case is still unknown. It is only known that Vladimir Romanovsky was detained in Bobruisk during the “feeding the pigeons” event on May 9, 2020. Then riot police detained about 15 people in the city.
According to the verdict , Romanovsky has now been found guilty of publicly insulting Lukashenko on social networks and has been sentenced to imprisonment.
2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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Convicted in January 2023. After the protests of 2020, he resigned from the service of the Lida District Department of Internal Affairs. For this he was subjected to repression.
6 years imprisonment in a colony
On August 13, 2023, he was detained for “distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities.” After this, a criminal case was opened against him. After the arrest, a “repentant” video was published with Artem, where he said that in 2020 he proposed throwing “Molotov cocktails” at police officers and sent instructions for making them to friends.
First, in April 2023, he was detained under an administrative article for allegedly “propaganda or public display, production, distribution of Nazi symbols or paraphernalia.” After this, a criminal case was opened.
It is known that in March 2023, the man published a video in support of Ukraine on his TikTok account with just over a thousand subscribers, in which Lukashenko was also harshly criticized. The video is currently unavailable. It is known about the man that he is divorced and works as an auto mechanic.
2 years imprisonment in a colony
State TV reported details of the trials of two men (Vadim Sergeevich Borisov and Oleg Aleksandrovich Volk). The voice-over said that one of the men, on the evening of September 8, 2023, in the village of Novaya Mysh (Baranovichi district), drunkenly tore the state flag from the store, damaging the mount. He put the flag in his backpack and took it home. In the morning the police had already come for the man.
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
According to the prosecution, on July 18, 2021, in a group called “Online Brest” on the social network “Vkontakte,” Pavel Korolevich posted a message that humiliated the honor and dignity of Alexander Lukashenko and is offensive to him. Also on August 11, 2021, he posted another offensive message in the same community.
In court, Korolevich partially pleaded guilty, since he made offensive comments in relation to Lukashenko specifically, and not in relation to the President of the Republic of Belarus in connection with the performance of his official duties.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony
Detained for 2020 comments in telegram chats.
According to the prosecution , the man repeatedly posted comments in an open telegram group in 2020. They saw a “negative assessment of a group of people united by activity” - the Belarusian army, members of election commissions, including its chairman, the police and riot police.
Ignatovich also “deliberately posted text messages on Telegram with calls for group actions that grossly violated public order, persuaded and encouraged them to participate in group actions, namely to unite and gather people, take them out onto the streets, disrupt the normal work of organizations and enterprises, government bodies, as well as law enforcement agencies.”
2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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