Trial outcome 01.08.2024: 1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the court , Andrei Timonin, Valeria Ivchina, Mikhail Pishchalo, Svetlana Kotova and Denis Kotov took part in marches in Minsk in August and September, “went out onto the roadway” and “blocked traffic.”
All defendants admitted guilt.
Trial outcome 13.06.2024: 2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 15.08.2024: the sentence was upheld.
3.5 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
Trial outcome 12.06.2024: 1 year restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 22.08.2024: the sentence was upheld.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
He was found guilty of posting a post on Facebook that allegedly humiliated the honor and dignity of Lukashenko. Tomczyk admitted guilt. A forensic examination testified that the publication contained “lexemes that contained nickname nominations” for Lukashenko.
Before the trial, Tomchik’s property was seized, including a TV, smart speakers, a vacuum cleaner, a washing machine and a multicooker. The judge decided to lift his arrest.
2 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional institution
According to the indictment , Fedor, "acting on the basis of ideological hatred, using a mobile phone, with the intent to provide funds to a group of citizens united under the name "Honest People" and a recognized extremist group, transferred 52 rubles 88 kopecks to bank accounts, which at the exchange rate of Sberbank at that time amounted to 20 dollars." For the same reasons, Fedor Shvedov transferred 26 rubles 07 kopecks (equivalent to 10 dollars) to the organization "Belarusian Council of Culture." Fedor transferred another 26 rubles 20 kopecks to the organization "BY_help".
Fedor graduated from Grodno State University in 1998. He lives with his family in Oshmyany. He and his wife have three children - two adults and one minor. He was a star of the Belarusian "What? Where? When?" even before he got into the TV version of the program.
On July 5, 2024, the appeal was heard.
3.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open prison correctional facility
Sergei was accused of writing several messages in the Telegram messenger. The hearing took place in the building of the Berezovsky Cooperative Industrial Plant. After the trial, prosecutor Alexander Krutko gave the workers a lecture "and reminded them of their responsibility for extremist crimes."
Sergey is 58 years old, he is originally from Ivanovo and lives in Bereza.
He was under house arrest before the trial.
Human rights activists learned that he began serving his sentence in an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 26.03.2024: 3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Vladimi reposted several publications on Odnoklassniki allegedly insulting Alexander Lukashenko, “acting with the aim of discrediting and causing damage to the authority of state power.” These were a video from the public “Belarus Political”, text and photos from the public “STOP LUKA”. He did not block access to the page.
He was released from custody in the courtroom.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
The man was accused of liking and reposting a publication on Odnoklassniki with text about Lukashenko, in which he was accused of committing a serious and especially serious crime. The court saw this as slander against the politician.
Before the trial, Alexander was under recognizance not to leave. He fully admitted his guilt.
Alexander Zakharchik has a secondary education and works as a driver.
3 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility
At the trial, Tatyana was accused of the fact that in October 2021 , “through correspondence on the social network Facebook, she intentionally and illegally disseminated information about personal data constituting a personal secret of an investigator of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Mogilev District Executive Committee without his consent in connection with his official activities.” " As a result, an “unlimited circle of people” became familiar with the policeman’s personal data.
Presumably, before the trial, the woman was kept in Baranavichy pre-trial detention center No. 6: she herself lives in either the Lyakhovichi or Luninets districts, but in December 2023 she was tried twice in the Baranavichy court under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (the second time she was tried via Skype). This follows from the decisions of the Baranavichy court regarding Makarova. In those administrative cases, the woman was given 10 days of arrest, a fine of 20 basic (740 rubles) and her phone was confiscated.
2,5 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
Trial outcome 16.02.2024: unknown years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He was detained by a traffic police officer on November 18, 2023, while riding a bicycle (according to a traffic police officer, while intoxicated) and taken to the Pruzhanskaya Central District Hospital, where he insulted Lukashenko. Before the trial he was under recognizance not to leave.
2 years of restriction of freedom with direction
Sergei and his wife were detained in November 2023. Before the trial, Sergei was in custody, and Tatyana was under recognizance, since the family had two minor children.
According to the prosecution , in August 2020, Sergei and Tatyana took part in an unauthorized mass event, together with the protesters they marched through public places in the city, the central square, and Zhilibert Park. At the same time, they showed a pre-made poster measuring approximately 2.5 x 3 meters, on which a text containing slanderous information against the president was written in black and red colors, thereby deliberately spreading slanderous information against him in connection with his execution powers of the head of state.
The accused Sergei Chizh fully admitted his guilt at the court hearing. He explained that the poster was heavy, and it was soon rolled up, and after the procession, Sergei burned it.
Tatyana Chizh did not admit guilt to the charges, explaining that she was depressed due to the serious illness of her mother, who is disabled.
They were identified from photographs from the Internet.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
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