Maria, an English teacher at the Baranovichi Gymnasium, was convicted in September 2021 for her comment under a photo of Interior Ministry officer Vadim Yakimchik on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus": "...and I used to hang out with this d**k when I was younger..." A linguistic examination determined that the word "d**k" has a derogatory connotation and insults human dignity.
Yakimchik later filed a lawsuit for compensation for "moral damages," and in July 2022, the court upheld the claim.
Dmitry was convicted in September 2021 for a comment on Odnoklassniki under a photo of Andrei Komar, a senior district inspector in the Pervomaisky District of Babruisk. Komar failed to appear at the hearing and demanded 1,000 rubles in moral damages, but Dmitry only acknowledged possible damages of 10 basic units.
Trial outcome 06.09.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, unknown rubles of compensation.
Vyacheslav was convicted under the article “desecration of a state symbol” and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the case materials, on April 3, 2021, at about 5:25 a.m., while intoxicated, he removed the national flag from a building on Lenin Street. He carried it some distance and then threw it on the ground. As a result, the flagpole broke into three parts and the flag was damaged. Damage in the amount of 2 rubles 44 kopecks was compensated.
He was released in June 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 31.05.2021
1 year restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 2 rubles of compensation.
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