Former Assistant Prosecutor of the Glusk District.
In the video published by the Investigative Committee, Prytulenko said that he sent the data of an employee of the prosecutor's office of the Glusk district and a doctor to the chat bot of the Black Book of Belarus.
According to Nasha Niva, in 2005 Konstantin Prytulenko was an investigator, and later an assistant to the district prosecutor. Where Prytulenko worked before his arrest is unknown.
Initially, the process was open, but, at the request of the injured officials and security forces, it was closed.
In total, more than a dozen people pass as victims, including the former deputy chairman of the Mogilev city council, "the main ideologist of the city" Alla Galushko. Other victims include members of election commissions, prosecutors, law enforcers and other government officials.
6 years in prison in a strict regime colony.
According to pro-government telegram channels, Oleg and three other guys "beginning in 2020 administered four tik-tok accounts and two telegram channels. These resources published information aimed at organizing and preparing mass riots, resisting law enforcement officers in order to encroach on independence, territorial integrity, the foundations of the constitutional order of the Republic of Belarus... The guys united in a telegram group, which was recognized as an extremist formation in early November." They allegedly "should have found executors to destroy infrastructure and organize attacks on law enforcement officers."
It is known that the guy successfully participated in regional competitions of intellectual games among schoolchildren.
The verdict came into force.
3.5 year in prison
unknown
According to investigators, on the night of March 20, a 20-year-old guy tore off four state flags in the agricultural town of Loshnitsa. He damaged the panels of the flags and broke the poles.
After that, Mikhail was detained by police officers. It turned out that he is a citizen of a foreign state, having a residence permit of the Republic of Belarus. I came to the Republic of Belarus about 10 years ago and by distribution works at one of the enterprises of the Minsk region.
Antipov filmed his actions on his phone, and posted the photo on a page on a social network.
The defendant's mother was a witness in court. Suspecting that her son had committed illegal acts in relation to the flags, she demanded that he contact the police, and she herself reported the incident to the district inspector.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
The verdict became known from the video of the local state television. So, the voice-over says that the basis for the criminal case was a telegram commentary about A. Lukashenko with obscene language. The prosecutor clarifies that the commentary was written in 2022.
2 years in prison with referral to an open institution.
The driver of the Svetlogorsk communal housing unitary enterprise "Svetoch" Vladimir was detained by police at work on January 6 this year. First, an administrative case was filed against him, and in the court of the Svetlogorsk district he was arrested under article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
Then he was charged allegedly with “inciting racial, national, religious or other social hatred or enmity.” People who on the Internet spoke unkindly to government officials are judged under this article.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony
He lived and worked in Poland for a year and a half and returned to Belarus, where he was detained at the end of November 2022. According to the security forces, it was in Poland that he registered in the Peramoga plan. He also allegedly wrote messages threatening the security forces.
6 years in prison in a penal colony.
On August 15, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.
the years of imprisonment in the colony are unknown.
Safanovich was accused of writing messages in a telegram chat on October 25, 2020 calling for road closures. According to the prosecution and the court, in the first message, Safanovich "called for active participation in group actions in the Luninets district, grossly violating public order" , i.e. Safanovich allegedly committed a crime under part 1 of article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Safanovich was also accused under part 1 of article 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, i.e. in public slander against Lukashenka. As follows from the article of the state publication, Safanovich wrote a second message in the same chat on August 13, 2020, under a photo with a tearful woman who left Akrestin. The caption for the video was as follows : “Confession of a Belarusian girl who was in the dungeons of Lukashenka's Gestapo. Do I understand correctly that Lukashenka became the second after Hitler who attacked the people of Belarus?”
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
An employee of the Ministry of Education. Sergei is accused of leaking data to the ChKB.
They detained Sergei brutally: several security forces suddenly ran into him when the man calmly walked around the courtyard of a high-rise building.
According to the pro-government telegram channels, a resident of Minsk wrote comments in "extremist" chats calling for forceful resistance to the internal affairs bodies (the security forces showed several messages dated August 2020), and also sent personal data to the bot of the Black Book of Belarus channel several judges.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Yuri worked in the Lida security department as a policeman, retired and worked there in the guards. He was forced to resign from the guard after the information about the insult passed. They arrested him at work, he was already working in the security of the Euroopt store at that time. A wonderful sportsman-master of sports in shooting, has three children.
According to the materials of the prosecution, on his personal page on the Odnoklassniki social network, showing a negative attitude towards the election campaign and the results of the presidential election, Tsarevich posted a repost containing information slandering Lukashenka. After that, he also posted this information on Telegram - in the channels "Krynitsa-Chat" and "Ikhtiandry".
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
According to the prosecution, on December 31, 2022, he posted a comment on the Vkontakte social network in a closed public chat under a graphic image of Lukashenka, in which there is a negative assessment in an obscene form. The content of the commentary is unknown to human rights defenders.
Vladimir Khmura fully admitted his guilt at the hearing, refused to testify. Before the trial, Khmura was under house arrest.
2 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open correctional institution.
Aleksei was detained for allegedly making comments on telegrams and for participating in protests in 2020. Previously, his data and a screenshot with his comments were published in one telegram channel, but he did not attach much importance to them.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
Dmitry was charged under three articles of the Criminal Code for telegram comments about A. Lukashenko, Natalia Kachanova and Russians. About this verdict, a video was released by state TV. There, the prosecutor tells the essence of the accusation, that “an insult on a national basis” was written about the Russians.
3 years in prison in a penal colony.
The reason for the criminal prosecution was a post in Odnoklassniki in April 2022.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
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