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.
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 2024after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Operator-setup worker. He was detained after a family celebration, during which a domestic conflict occurred and the police were called. According to the prosecution, Konstantin, while sober, spoke disrespectfully about Lukashenko A. in front of the police officers, using obscene language. For this, he was detained and taken into custody.
On 25.08.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released on February 24, 2025.
At the trial, Ruslan said that in April 2022, while browsing the news feed on the Odnoklassniki social network, he saw a post featuring Lukashenka, under which there was a text about overpriced medicines. Succumbing to emotions, he left a comment of an offensive nature in his address.
Trial outcome 19.06.2023
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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.
A plasticsgranulationmachine operator at theGrodnoAzotbranchof the Khimvolokno enterprise.He was detained byGUBOPiK officers . On camera, the mansaidthathis detentionwas relatedto his registration in the Peramoga plan chat bot, where he showed his military registration specialty (commander of the artillery reconnaissance unit, senior sergeant).He notedthat he had not carried out any sabotagemissions.
Andrey is a father of many children and is raising his daughters alone.
He was pardoned.
Trial outcome 20.06.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Vyacheslav was accused of "uttering phrases degrading the honor and dignity" of A. Lukashenko while intoxicated and in the presence of police officers. Recordings from the police officers' dashcams were later used in court as evidence of Solodkiy's guilt. It is not specified what words Vyacheslav used.
On 18.08.2024, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 09.06.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Presumably, the basis for the criminal prosecution was an obscene one-word characterization that the accused bestowed on the head of the vertical of power in comments on one of the social networks. Other details of the case are unknown, it is only known that before the trial, Yegorenkov was held in a pretrial detention center from the end of March 2023.
According to human rights activists, he was released on July 22, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Vyacheslav is a native of Ukraine. Around 2011, he moved to Gomel with his parents. Graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry of the Belarusian State Medical University in Minsk with a degree in Dentistry. Since 2017, he worked as a dental surgeon at the Bragin Central District Hospital, established himself well in the team and among patients
On September 5, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
11.02.2025
После освобождения выдано предписание в 10-дневный срок покинуть РБ.
Trial outcome 07.06.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Safanovich was accused of writing messages in a Telegram chat on October 25, 2020, calling for road closures. According to the prosecution and the court, in his first message, Safanovich "called for active participation in group actions in the Luninets district that grossly violate public order," i.e. Safanovich allegedly committed a crime under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Safanovich was also charged under Part 1 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, i.e. public slander against Lukashenko. As follows from the article of the state publication, Safanovich wrote a second message in the same chat on August 13, 2020, under a photo of a tearful woman leaving Okrestina. The caption to the video was as follows : "Confession of a Belarusian girl who was in the dungeons of Lukashenko's Gestapo. Do I understand correctly that Lukashenko became the second after Hitler to attack the people of Belarus?"
On July 18, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released on December 23, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 02.06.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 18.07.2023
unknown.
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