He was detained upon returning to the Republic of Belarus in the fall of 2022. Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
On July 4, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Olga was first convicted under an administrative article for "distributing, manufacturing, storing, transporting information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities", after which a criminal case was opened against her for insulting Lukashenka A.G.
3 months of arrest .
Vladimir was detained on May 9, 2023 at the Terespol-Brest border crossing when returning to Belarus. His phone was checked and then he was detained.
There are several known administrative courts against Vladimir. So, on May 10, 16, 26 and June 7 he was tried under Part 2 of Art. 19.11 Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of extremist materials) and was sentenced to arrest. The last time he was sentenced to 15 days
Searches were carried out at the place where he and his relatives lived. Since his arrest, Vladimir has been kept in the temporary detention center of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Brest.
On the night of June 22-23, 2023, Vladimir was released into a temporary detention facility.
Vladimir was detained again on October 28, 2023 in the Drogichinsky district. There was a preliminary search and seizure of office equipment; after checking his phone, he was detained under Art. 19.11 part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of information products included in the republican list of extremist materials, as well as production, publication, storage or transportation for the purpose of disseminating such information). It is known that Vladimir was arrested because of old subscriptions.
The trial date is still unknown. Since his arrest he has been held in the temporary detention center of the Ivanovo region .
On December 11, 2023, it became known that Vladimir was free.
At first, Oleg was convicted under an administrative article, part 2 of article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution of extremist materials) for sending a telegram post from the Mustache Lukashenko channel in private messages to a friend. For this, the man was sentenced to 10 days of arrest. And already on March 22, 2023, the man was placed in a pre-trial detention center on criminal charges for comments about Lukashenka and the Belarusian military. According to human rights activists , there was such a comment about the military: "pi * duki" (it was with the asterisk sign that the comment imputed to Oleg was).
During Prokopchuk's stay in a pre-trial detention center, he had a third child, but this did not affect the court's decision.
On August 1, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
A native of Gomel, the commander of the second department of the fire rescue unit No. 26 of the Frunzensky district of Minsk. He was detained on February 7, 2023 in Minsk at the duty station.
On September 15, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison
Vyacheslav was accused of “uttering phrases degrading the honor and dignity” of A. Lukashenko while drunk in the presence of police officers. Recordings from police video recorders were later used in court as evidence of Solodky’s guilt. It is not specified what exact words Vyacheslav spoke.
On August 18, 2024, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Pavel Yanchuk is from the Kamenets region, but lived in Brest. Before the trial, Pavel was placed in custody.
According to the prosecution , on April 17, 2022, Pavel Yanchuk wrote an offensive comment about A.L. Lukashenko under a publication in the telegram channel “Real Belarus”.
On July 18, the appeal was considered, the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Gennady was accused of leaving offensive comments on a telegram channel in January 2022 under a photo with representatives of Lukashenko’s government.
Released upon expiration of sentence.
3 months of arrest
Convicted for reposting a picture with a tombstone with a portrait of Lukashenka. Alexandra was found guilty of “insulting Lukashenka” for such “willfulness”. The verdict was delivered by Judge Alesya Parfenenko. Alexander will serve his sentence under the general regime.
During the trial, the defendant said that she thought the text under the mentioned picture was funny, so she gave it a "class" and reposted to herself.
The verdict has entered into force.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
According to human rights activists, she was released in the spring of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
The resident of Brest was accused of writing 2 comments under a video with Lukashenko on May 24, 2021, in the Facebook group “People’s Verdict”. One message said “sick person”, the second “schizophrenic”.
On May 16, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she was released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
A taxi driver who was harshly detained by riot police at the end of January 2023 while he was waiting for an order near the bus station. Friends had been waiting for Roman since “days”, as they knew that he was detained for old likes on the Odnoklassniki social network. But then it turned out that the man was detained under Art. 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 21, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to estimates, the human rights defender will be released at the end of 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
According to the prosecution, Dzyuba left publications that humiliated the honor and dignity of Lukashenko and contained an obscene form of linguistic expression in relation to him.
He also posted publications with photos of policemen on social networks, accompanied them with a text with a negative assessment. Among them were images of employees of temporary detention facilities with a swastika, Lukashenko with an improvised gallows.
The man pleaded guilty in full. He said that he had reposted the information on Facebook.com.
All the victims stated that the publication caused them moral harm.
In the spring of 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the prosecution , on February 13, 2023, Igor Svirida, while in the Compulsory Enforcement Department (COI), “... provided a department employee with a handwritten explanation of the reasons for non-payment of fines imposed by the court for committing various administrative offenses, in which he deliberately and publicly wrote the text, in the content of which, in an offensive form, he expressed a negative assessment of the president’s personality, presented in the form of an obscene form of speech expression...”
On the same day, when a squad of employees of the Security Department was called to the enforcement department to detain him, he again publicly insulted A.G. Lukashenko. The investigation claims that Igor Svirida was allegedly intoxicated in the premises of the OPI.
During the court hearing, he partially admitted his guilt.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 upon expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the materials of the prosecution , Vadim Myakinnik, near the administrative building of one of the secondary schools in Minsk, saw a red-green flag on a metal bracket on the wall at the main entrance. Grabbing the flag with his hand, he tore it off the bracket, after which, holding in his right hand the staff with the cloth displaced on it, he disappeared and headed in an unknown direction, thereby publicly humiliating the state symbol. These actions were recorded by a surveillance camera.
The educational institution suffered damage in the amount of 25 rubles 20 kopecks.
2 months 1 day imprisonment in a penal colony under strict regime conditions.
The Rogachevsky District Court found that Yulia posted messages and videos on her public page on the social network Instagram that “contained an insult to the president.”
12/02/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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