According to the investigation, on the night of March 20, a 20-year-old man tore down four state flags in the agro-town of Loshnitsa. He damaged the flags and broke the poles.
After this, Mikhail was detained by police officers. It turned out that he was a citizen of a foreign state with a residence permit in the Republic of Belarus. He arrived in the Republic of Belarus about 10 years ago and was assigned to work at one of the enterprises in the Minsk region.
Antipov filmed his actions on his phone and posted the photos on his social network page.
The defendant's mother testified in court. Suspecting that her son had committed illegal actions against the flags, she demanded that he contact the police and also reported the incident to the local police inspector.
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 23.06.2023: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
She was detained in January 2023 and convicted of insulting A.G. Lukashenko.
On June 22, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
On March 30, 2024, she was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
The driver of the Svetlogorsk municipal housing unitary enterprise "Svetoch" Vladimir was detained by the police at work on January 6 of this year. First, an administrative case was filed against him, and in the Svetlogorsk district court he was arrested under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code.
Then he was charged with allegedly “inciting racial, national, religious or other social hatred or enmity.” People who have spoken unkindly about government officials on the Internet are tried under this article.
According to human rights activists , he was released in November 2023 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony
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.
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.
1.5 yearsof imprisonment in a penal colony under general regime
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.
The man was accused of leaving an offensive comment about Lukashenko on the social network VKontakte, in which he accused the politician of committing a crime against humanity and an act of terrorism. Vadim was held in custody until the trial. He fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions.
Vadim has a secondary specialized education and worked as a welder.
According to human rights activists, he was released in September 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 01.06.2023: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
Detained for comments made in 2020.
Alexey was detained on May 3, 2023, and he was given a 15-day administrative arrest under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code (distribution of “extremist” products). He was never released, as a criminal case was opened against him for organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them, as well as for comments that he left on the Internet back in 2020: “Buy fireworks , checkers, lasers, helmets, shields, respirators and let’s fight back against fascism! We need to decentralize the exits in each district, block the roads, paralyze all traffic. ".
It is known that Alexey was born in Gomel, worked as a freight forwarder, and has a secondary specialized education.
On October 6, 2023, Alexey’s appeal was considered.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
She is a native of Ukraine, but has citizenship of the Republic of Belarus. On May 16, 2023, she was convicted of participating in protests.
On June 29, 2024, she was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 16.05.2023: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 28.07.2023: the sentence was upheld.
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 showing a tombstone with a portrait of Lukashenko. For such "willfulness", Alexandra was found guilty of "insulting Lukashenko". The sentence was handed down by Judge Alesya Parfenenko. Alexandra will serve her sentence in a general regime.
During the trial, the defendant said that she found the text under the aforementioned picture funny, so she gave it a "like" and reposted it.
The sentence has come into force.
She was released in December 2023, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
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.
Zanovsky was charged with writing two comments under publications on the Belarus of the Brain Telegram channel. One message was written on February 24, 2022, under the news that Russian troops were entering Ukraine from Belarus. The second message, with which (according to the prosecution) Zanovsky publicly insulted A. Lukashenko, was published on April 7, 2022 (when Ukraine and Russia were negotiating a ceasefire) under the news with a quote from Lukashenko that "there can be no negotiations without the participation of Belarus."
On June 16, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
1.5 years in prison .
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