He was engaged in making wooden toys. He led a group on VKontakte, which included artisans.
In 2020, he began writing critical messages about the situation with the presidential elections in Belarus in a group with about 6 thousand participants. Renamed the group to “Belarus without rudeness.” After 2021, activity in the group decreased, but with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, Dmitry began to speak out against the war in it. The group was eventually recognized as an “extremist formation.”
On April 4, 2023, Dmitry was detained and sent to serve 15 days of arrest, which he had been sentenced to earlier. However, after his arrest he was not released.
On February 16, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
According to the case materials , on February 27, 2022, 36-year-old Dmitry, during the republican referendum, was at the polling station, allegedly in a state of intoxication, having received a ballot, he wrote an obscene inscription on it addressed to the head of state. Then, without putting the ballot in the ballot box, the accused presented it unfolded to members of the commission, thereby disrupting the work of the polling station.
An inscription was found on the ballot: “Lukashenko and Putin...”; “Lukashenko and Putin...” in a perverted form.
The prosecution representative requested two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, but taking into account the amnesty, this period should be reduced by one year.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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.
41 year old Anastasia has worked a lot of places, but the last known place of work is the director of the printing house of LLC «Electronic Agent».
The film on the ONT TV channel showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 in the house of Nastya and her husband Oleg Sychev in the garden association «Berezovaya Roshcha» in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).
Nastya and her husband were detained by law enforcement officers on March 3 in the same house.
According to human rights activists, both of them are now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.
The detained couple has two juvenile children who are now with their grandmother.
Trial outcome 03.10.2024: 2 years 3 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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.
Convicted of insulting Lukashenko.
On June 20, 2023, an appellate court hearing was held, and the verdict came into force.
At the beginning of June 2024 he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years in prison.
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.
He was detained on January 9, 2023 as part of a criminal case opened in Brest based on the events of September 13, 2020, when during a protest, people danced in a circle on the roadway (the so-called “round dance case”).
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Yaroslav Kazakevich, a 27 year old resident of Orsha, accused of facilitating extremist activities.
According to the case materials, on December 8, 2022, the accused made a video file using a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone at the railway station «Orsha-Tsentralnaya», on which an echelon with Russian military equipment was recorded. Then Kazakevich, being in the carriage of a train of regional lines, distributed through the Internet the named video file in the Telegram channel, the information products of which had previously been recognized by the court as extremist materials.
On December 9, 2022, Yaroslav was detained by police officers and arrested by the Orsha district court for 15 days for the production and distribution of extremist materials. He was never released again.
On June 6, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.
Trial outcome 04.04.2023: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 04.04.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Vyacheslav was convicted for insulting comments towards Lukashenko and police officers on Facebook.
It became known about the verdict from a video on State TV. In it, Prosecutor Pavel Kurpenich said that Vyacheslav was held in custody before the trial, and during the trial he fully admitted guilt.
Vyacheslav Kobrin is 58 years old. The man is married, enjoys fishing.
Trial outcome 24.03.2023: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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.
Alexander was arrested in September 2022 and convicted for participating in protests and blocking roads on August 9 and October 25, 2020 in Minsk.
Released on May 8, 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 23.03.2023: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 30.05.2023: the sentence was upheld.
On June 16, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released on December 25, 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under the general regime.
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