Convicted for a comment on the social network "Odnoklassniki" in relation to the head of the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs Kuleshov V.V.
In June 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of restriction of freedom.
3rd year student of the Faculty of Psychology of Gomel University. Detained for distributing stickers in Chechersk.
Earlier it was reported that in August 2021, a guy and a girl were detained for this case, but they were released. Rita was detained again on December 28, 2021 as part of a criminal article.
10/12/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
2 years of imprisonment.
He was detained on August 30, 2021 as part of a criminal case for comments on the Internet under four articles of the Criminal Code. Released April 15, 2022 pending appeal.
1 year and 3 months in prison .
Engineer, climber. He was detained on November 11 , repeatedly punished with administrative arrest. Anatoly became popular because of his statement in a video distributed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in which he spoke of his love for white and red colors.
A homeless man from Minsk was detained for "repeated violations of mass events." It is known about Kutas that he was thrown 10 times for a "day" under Art. 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (unauthorized picketing) in 2021. The protocols for him were drawn up for posters, on which the flag of the BSSR was usually painted and requests for help were written. But one day he was detained for a BCHB poster with the text: "Vyarnitsa me zyatsinstvo, youth me yarnitsa, and the first kahanna. Forget the lager and long live the People's Republic of Belarus." It is known that Kutas spent 22 years in prison.
Released 09/21/2022
| 26.01.2022 | Everything comes back from Kutas. Parcels. |
1 year in prison .
He was detained on December 8, 2021 as part of a criminal case about group actions grossly violating public order
According to human rights activists, he will be released in September 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Convicted on charges of insulting the president.
According to human rights activists, in December 2022, he fully served his sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony
detained in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
On October 19, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1 year 7 months in prison
Resident of Mogilev. According to the prosecution, in June 2020, Valentin Lobachev posted a picture in one of the banned Telegram channels with an inscription that, according to the state prosecution, was offensive to Alexander Lukashenko.
On February 17, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Maxim Mychko, Yana Milevskaya and Alexander Bend, accused in this case, while in Gomel on August 29, 2021, in a state of intoxication near the house on the street. The Soviet flag was torn down, which Mychko then threw on the pavement. Their identities were established using CCTV cameras.
In December 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
| 10.01.2023 | Due to be released June-July 2022 |
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Maxim Mychko, Yana Milevskaya and Alexander Bend, accused in this case, while in Gomel on August 29, 2021, in a state of intoxication near the house on the street. The Soviet flag was torn down, which Mychko then threw on the pavement. Their identities were established using CCTV cameras.
On June 23, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony
Employee of the Laguna factory in Baranovichi.
Convicted on December 20, 2021 for a comment with obscene language in the telegram channel “Baranovichi 97%” addressed to A.G. Lukashenko, which was written on September 17, 2020.
03/04/2024 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Resident of Minsk. A criminal case was opened against Pavel for the fact that during a gathering of citizens in Gorodishche on September 18, 2020, when the police began to detain an elderly man, he obstructed the arrest, as a result of which he hit a policeman.
Released in January 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years and 6 months imprisonment in a penal colony
A resident of Mozyr.
Convicted for a comment in vk.com in relation to representatives of law enforcement agencies, which the court considered offensive.
Dmitry has a pregnant wife and a disabled mother at home.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
An individual entrepreneur from Minsk, convicted for insulting a riot policeman. He was detained on April 23, 2021, when he was flying to Moscow. That's how he learned about the criminal case against him. At the trial, Izotov said that he had no intention of hiding. But the investigation decided otherwise and took him into custody pending trial. On November 12, 2020, the man was accused of insulting the commander of the OMON, ensign Kovalchuk. In the telegram chat "punishers of Belarus" he wrote a comment under the posted data: "...stupid, nowhere else."
On January 25, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
| 08.06.2023 | Друзья, всем огромное спасибо за поддержку! По освобождению я покинул Беларусь. Всех обнимаю, дорогие! |
2 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open-type correctional institution ("chemistry")
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