According to the prosecution, Gerasimovich violated the state flag by pulling the flag by the cloth and throwing it to the ground while intoxicated. After this, the flag was damaged and its staff was destroyed. The property damage to the organization on whose building the flag hung was estimated at 89 rubles - this is exactly how much the accused must pay as compensation.
The man admitted his guilt completely and said that he pulled the flag by accident so as not to fall. He had no intention of desecrating the state symbol of Belarus.
The court considered that if the accused did not admit to deliberately desecrating the flag, he did not fully understand his responsibility and did not repent, so he decided to impose a sentence of imprisonment. Although the expert concluded that the accused suffers from chronic alcoholism and requires compulsory treatment.
On March 3, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Alexey was convicted for insulting comments in the telegram channel towards two representatives of the authorities. As follows from the text of the resolution, one of the tokens in Alexey's comments was: «erysipelas». The man fully admitted his guilt and repented. However, after the verdict was announced, the prosecutor of the Glubokoe district filed an appeal.
The Vitebsk Regional Court overturned the decision of the Glubokoe district court and replaced Alexey with two years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility for two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony and a penalty of 1920 BYN.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Employee of «Brestgazoapparat». He was detained right at the factory, from where he was taken out in handcuffs. Presumably he was detained for comments in social networks.
The Court of Appeal passed on March 3, 2023.
unknown years of imprisonment in the colony
As stated by the investigation, Ruslan from February 2017 to November 2020 posted on his page in ok.ru publications with insulting and slanderous statements against Lukashenko. There were also accusations of Lukashenko's murder in the publications.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Former police officer, lieutenant. He quit because he could not look at everything that was happening, then he got a job as a security guard. He was badly beaten during the arrest. Former colleagues came to court as victims and spoke well of Oleg, but nevertheless exacted moral compensation. At home, Oleg was left to wait for one mother.
6 years in prison
He was the head of the Studio Travel travel agency, a lawyer by education. Anton has a daughter who was born after he was detained.
Anton was convicted for photos from the protests, which he had on his mobile, but in which he himself was not. And also for an episode with a brawl with a security officer in the subway, where passengers prevented the arrest and beating of a person after a protest action. Anton got on the video by accident and 2 years later was detained and convicted.
| 23.01.2023 | There is a newborn daughter. 0.5 years. |
| 23.01.2023 | He is on preventive records as prone to taking hostages and attacking the administration. Red card. |
2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
In 2021, she publicly announced that she was retiring from journalism. She explained her departure by the fact that she already had enough harassment for work without accreditation.
According to police reports, the courts punished the journalist with administrative fines more than forty times, including for covering post-election protests. Only days of detention were not appointed, because Shchiryakova alone raised a juvenile son.
In 2022, in September, after the arrest of a former colleague in the journalistic workshop, Yevgeny Merkisa Shchiryakova, in her posts on social networks, raised issues of keeping a journalist in a pre-trial detention center, posted messages on her pages in social networks about solidarity actions with Yevgeny, which were organized abroad.
After Larisa's detention, her son was taken to an orphanage right from school.
According to the materials of the case, Larisa Shchiryakova allegedly placed information on the Internet that discredited the Republic of Belarus. She is also accused of “collecting, creating, processing, storing and transmitting information for Vesna” and “Belsat”.
3.5 years in prison in a penal colony.
The accusation is based on comments that Kotov left within a month and a half after the 2020 presidential election in Telegram channels recognized by extremist groups in the territory of the Republic of Belarus. The investigators of these telegram channels found evidence of crimes under 4 articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
It is also known that Ivan was detained twice after the 2020 presidential election. For the first time immediately after August 9. For the second time, Lukashenko's security forces seized Kotov in mid-February 2021. Then the riot police detained 68 people in the village of Sokol, Smolevichi district – participants and spectators of the concert.
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained for the administration of the chat «Tipichnaya Serebrianka», but the case was transferred to the court with charges only of protest actions.
| 14.06.2023 | Апелляция оставила приговор без изменений. |
| 12.05.2023 | заседание по аппеляции Глеба будет 13.06.23г. в Минском городском суде. Время ещё не проставлено. |
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Pavel Omelyanov was accused of reposting a publication with an image of Lukashenko on the Telegram channel on December 27, 2020, under which he left offensive comments.
The man was also accused of systematically stealing bicycles stored in apartment buildings at night from June 20, 2021 to July 12, 2022. The Bobruisk resident stole a total of 27 bicycles worth 11,000 rubles.
The man repented of his actions and fully admitted his guilt.
On May 18, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to the materials of the court case, on August 30, 2021, Alexey left several offensive comments in one of the Telegram chats and, as the examination showed, thereby publicly insulted Lukashenko, deliberately humiliated his honor and dignity in an indecent form.
The judge sentenced Alexey to restriction of freedom without referral to a correctional facility for a period of 3 years. However, the prosecutor appealed the verdict. On February 9, 2023, the Judicial Board of the Mogilev Regional Court imposed a new punishment - imprisonment.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted for insulting and slandering Lukashenka A.L.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Works as a foreman at the elevator at JSC "Lidakhleboprodukt". On the day of the arrest, Igor was called to the checkpoint, first two "employees", then a bus flew up, from which OMON in uniform jumped out. Detained for participating in protests in 2020.
On December 22, 2022, the Court of Appeal took place.
3 years in prison
unknown imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Head of the department of the Brest Regional Narcological dispensary.
According to law enforcement officials, the man left offensive comments about Lukashenko and Chairman of the Brest City Executive Committee Alexander Rogachuk.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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