Pavel Kuntsevich is 39 years old. He is a Minsk resident, he studied at the Minsk State Institute of Ecology named after Sakharov as a psychologist. He worked at the Chervensky market, where he had his own retail outlet, and recently he made greenhouses for money.
Judging by social networks, he was detained in the fall of 2023. He was accused under Part 3 of Art. 361 of the Criminal Code of Belarus - “calls for sanctions or other actions aimed at harming the national security of Belarus.” Under the article, he faced up to 12 years in prison.
Pavel has a large family - a wife and four children.
4 years imprisonment in a colony
unknown years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility.
On the night of October 13-14, 2023, in the center of the pine forest, the official red-green flag was removed from the flagpole and thrown into the ballot box, and the flag of Ukraine was attached in its place. The person who did this was detained based on the recording of a video surveillance camera installed on the village council building. Valery Samsonenko previously worked in the Svetlogorsk regional department for emergency situations, but left there.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
It is unknown when the man was detained, but the last time he was online was on his VKontakte page on December 29, 2022, although he used to visit there regularly.
It is known that in 2015 the man lived in Poland. And in 2019 and 2021 he wrote that he lives in Germany, works in artificial intelligence and works for the German company EDEKA GmbH/WITRON. His main messengers were tied to a German number, and his mailbox was on a German domain, that is, he lived permanently in Germany.
According to CyberPartisan, Novogrodsky has not officially worked in Belarus since 2011 and has three children from different women.
As Nasha Niva writes, Alexey is interested in philosophy and participated in thematic conferences - for example, in April 2021, he made a report “Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence” at the scientific conference “Philosophy and Challenges of Modernity,” which was organized by the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
On December 18, Alexey's trial began. The meeting was closed, so the essence of the matter is unknown.
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According to the prosecution materials , in December 2020, Krasko “published comments in the public domain on the Internet aimed at supporting extremist activities, propaganda and agitation of social discord and hostility towards employees of state law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Belarus, representatives of the judiciary, military personnel serving in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, published publicly available comments on the Internet aimed at supporting extremist activities, promoting and agitating social discord and hostility towards this category of persons."
3 years of imprisonment in a correctional colony under general regime conditions.
According to the prosecution, Evgeniy Kladov, on the Odnoklassniki social network, on his profile wall, available for viewing by other users, “counting on the subsequent perception by others of offensive information,” realizing the public and humiliating nature of his publication, deliberately posted an image that is contrary to universal morality and norms of behavior , accepted in society, thereby publicly deliberately humiliating the honor and dignity of Lukashenko’s personality in connection with the exercise of his powers, expressed in an indecent form.”
There are two similar episodes in the case.
At the court hearing, Kladov actually did not admit guilt and indicated that on his page he accidentally posted, in the public domain for all users, pictures of Lukashenko that he had previously viewed on the Internet; he did this unintentionally, he did not know that these images would be saved in the feed of his page , after his "class" mark.
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
The man was detained after 2021. Botwich was charged with two counts of “espionage” and “undercover activity.” We are talking about a 59-year-old man who, although he does not have Belarusian citizenship, grew up and lived in Belarus. This is Sergei Ivanovich Botvich - he owned companies whose total turnover amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and some of them were registered in the EU.
A resident of the village of Novy Sverzhen was accused of writing a comment in the direction of Lukashenko under a publication in a telegram channel, which the court considered offensive, while at work in the cabin of a commuter train.
During the trial, a witness, an assistant driver, was interviewed, who said that Denis Nosov did not inform him about the written comment.
After the verdict was announced, the man was released in the courtroom. His phone was confiscated “as a means of committing a crime.”
Denis has a secondary specialized education and works as an electric train driver for regional lines in Minsk.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
The man was accused of leaving a comment on YouTube in the direction of Lukashenko under the video “Belarus: Covert mobilization and deployment of troops from Russia | Ukraine, Lukashenko and NATO” by Russian blogger Ilya Varlamov. They found the Youtube application on his phone, in which there was a corresponding post in the “Comments” section.
Igor Zhuk worked as a woodworking machine operator in a closed joint stock company. He remained in custody until sentencing.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
On February 27, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony
2,5 years imprisonment in a colony
According to the prosecution , Vladislav Muravsky repeatedly publicly insulted government officials in telegram channels and chats (“Punisher of Belarus”, “Chat-Partizan”, “my country Belarus”), and also disclosed their personal data.
The accused Vladislav, interrogated at the court hearing, pleaded not guilty, citing that he did not remember anything about his testimony and comments posted on the Internet in connection with his mental illness in the form of mixed personality disorder, after which he refused to give any explanations. His mother said in court that her son has a mental illness - mixed personality disorder. However, the expert's opinion refutes the presence of the influence of mental illness on the ability to remember events and information.
4 years of restriction of freedom with placement in an open institution.
Convicted of "outrage of a state symbol."
It is reported that in August 2023, Khachaturov “deliberately tore the national flag from the building of one of the shopping centers in Bobruisk, breaking the flagpole, after which he held it in his hands and waved it above himself.”
Evgeniy fully admitted his guilt in the charges brought against him.
1.6 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
Pro-government telegram channels reported that the man was detained at the end of July in Grodno, when he was returning from abroad to Belarus in the summer, and that he allegedly wrote about 1,000 comments in “extremist” channels and chats.
Vyacheslav is a resident of Minsk, married, and was fond of paintball. It is reported that the security forces were able to find Chernetsky because he signed his telegram account with his real name and surname.
According to the prosecution , Vyacheslav posted comments on the TG channel “Real Belarus”. As the examination established, “in the text of the comments there is a negative evaluative language unit that has a non-normative form of speech expression addressed to Lukashenko and the President of the Russian Federation.”
2 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
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