Has group 3 disability (hearing loss). Accused of posting an offensive comment in the telegram messenger regarding A.G. Lukashenko. The prosecutor requested 1.5 years in prison.
A sign language interpreter was also involved in the process.
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of 2023.
1 year and 2 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the prosecution’s position , Stepanyuk was detained at 01:50 at night under Article 24.4 of the Administrative Code, he was taken in a police car to the police department, and on the way to the police station, Stepanyuk spoke insultingly about the police and Alexander Lukashenko using profanity, everything was recorded on the video recorder. Andrei Stepanyuk made a full admission of guilt at the trial. During the investigation, he identified himself on video recordings. As aggravating circumstances, they are asked to take into account a recent conviction under Article 149 of the Criminal Code, and as a mitigating circumstance - the presence of a dependent small child.
On 02/03/2023, the appeal was considered and 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.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
According to the indictment, Vadim Kalinin in February 2022, using his Xiaomi Redmi 6A mobile phone, left an offensive comment on his address on the Instagram under the publication of the minsk_news account with the image of Alexander Lukashenko.
At the hearing, the man admitted his guilt in full.
In addition to imprisonment, Vadim will be subjected to compulsory security measures and treatment for chronic alcoholism.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Since the end of October 2022, the man was held in custody, a month later he was transferred to house arrest. After the verdict of the district court, they were taken into custody again.
A criminal case was opened because of the incident with the national flag of the Republic of Belarus.
According to the prosecution, one day a company of 5 people gathered on the porch of the village council in Obrovo (Ivatsevichi district), among those gathered was Alexey. The guys were drinking and suddenly Alexey decided to climb up the drainpipe and remove the national flag. At the same time, the man broke the pipe, and put the flag on the porch. A girl from the same company raised a flag and put it against the wall.
Representatives of the prosecution qualified this story as an outrage against the national flag of the Republic of Belarus.
In the fall of 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Alexander was accused of “damaging the wall of a store in Dokshitsy with a red wax crayon.” He wrote "3%" on the wall.
It is known that Alexander Sinitsa has recently actively criticized Dokshitsy retail outlets for the sale of expired products and poor sanitary conditions.
On February 24, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
04/01/2024 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Andrei was accused of using his mobile phone on the Odnoklassniki social network to leave a publication with an image and text that “humiliates the honor and dignity of an individual, offensive information and a negative assessment” of Lukashenko. Andrey’s publications on the page were noticed by a police officer while monitoring social networks.
Andrey has a dependent minor child.
At the end of November 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
3 months of arrest.
That day, Alexander and a friend went to visit and got tipsy. We went out into the street and talked about political topics. Then a woman approached, made a remark and sharply demanded to shut up.
As it turned out later, this second woman called the police with a message that “there is a company of 8 people in the yard, they are scolding the authorities, calling Lukashenko a traitor and a fascist.” After 23 minutes, police appeared in the yard and took Trush and his friend to the police station.
On January 13, 2023, the appeal was considered and 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.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
Detained for insulting Lukashenko A.G.
On February 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
In September 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
1 year imprisonment in a colony
The wife of political prisoner Artem Anishchuk , was detained on November 4, 2022. Then she was sentenced to 10 days of arrest for reposting a post from Nasha Niva. After 10 days, Olga was not released. A “repentant video” appeared with her, in which she says that she was subscribed to “extremist” channels and made reposts from them. Pro-government telegram channels wrote that Anishchuk "is a candidate to spend the New Year in a temporary detention facility, as dozens of reposts have been recorded." Also, according to the security forces, Olga "fueled the situation around the penitentiary system with stuffing and fakes, bombarded government agencies with far-fetched complaints." On November 16, Olga was sentenced to 14 days of arrest for reposting from the Zerkalo telegram channel. On November 28, she was sentenced to another 10 days of arrest.
According to human rights activists, Olga has already been ill with bronchitis twice behind bars, as she is kept in inhuman conditions and sleeps on a concrete floor. In the Mogilev TDF, where she was transferred after the Akrestsin TDF, she is bullied and pressured - three times a day she is forced to undress to the naked and squat. In protest against this, on November 28, Olga Anishchuk went on a hunger strike.
On December 8, 2022, Olga left the temporary detention facility at the end of her administrative arrest.
Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was convicted for commenting on the Zeltser case.
2 years in prison.
She was detained on September 29, 2021 for comments after the death of Andrei Zeltser. At the end of January last year, the girl was expelled in absentia from the Minsk State Linguistic University. Catherine has a small son.
The term of detention fully covered the term of the sentence. Ekaterina was released in the courtroom.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
According to human rights activists, he was released in April 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
On August 31, 2023, the restriction of freedom was replaced by imprisonment in a colony for a period of 7 months and 21 days.
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