2 years imprisonment in a colony
Trial outcome 11.09.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 28.11.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Maxim is currently undergoing compulsory military service in a military unit in Borisov.
According to the prosecution , Maxim, “acting jointly and in concert in a group of people from approximately 21:00 on August 9 to 1:30 on August 10, 2020, “stood on the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, clapped his hands, loudly shouted, whistled, shouted various slogans, while refusing to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”
In Zhlobin, according to the investigation, on the day of the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus on August 9, 2020, at about 10 p.m., an aggressive crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered in the area of the city square.
3 months of arrest in a guardhouse
According to the prosecution , Artur Panchenko, “acting jointly and in concert in a group of people from approximately 21:00 on August 9 to 1:30 on August 10, 2020, “stood on the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, clapped his hands, shouted loudly, whistled, shouted various slogans, while refusing to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”
In Zhlobin, according to the investigation, on the day of the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus on August 9, 2020, at about 10 p.m., an aggressive crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered in the area of the city square.
Arthur served under contract in a military unit as a senior fire rescuer of the military fire protection and rescue team in Zhlobin.
3 months of arrest in a guardhouse
January 2023 security officials drew attention to the pages of the pensioner in social networks: there they found subscriptions to “extremist” information resources, reposts from them, as well as images of white-red-white flags and “chase”, caricatures of Lukashenko and Putin reprinted from various sources. The woman's home was searched and her mobile phone was confiscated.
Trial outcome 30.08.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 24.11.2023: the sentence was upheld.
The reason for the criminal case was the reaction of “class” to a publication in Odnoklassniki in the STOP LUKA public page in April 2022, where an illustration of Alexander Lukashenko’s gravestone with the inscription “Lukashenko (Brechlo) Alexander Grigorievich. 08/30/1954-2022 was posted. To the one who LIES to his PEOPLE. From SOUTH UKRAINIANS."
It is known that Evgeniy was detained in July of this year. He was accused of “publicly insulting Alexander Lukashenko.”
Evgeniy’s wife and little daughter are waiting for him to be free.
2 years in a penal colony under general regime conditions
According to the prosecution, after viewing a photograph posted in the public domain on Odnoklassniki with fixed text, where the honor and dignity of Lukashenko’s personality was humiliated in an indecent form and he was accused of committing a particularly serious crime (murder), Kozlovskaya posted the photograph on her page on the same social network, open for free viewing and copying to an unlimited circle of readers.
In court, Olga said that she sent a letter to Alexander Lukashenko, in which she apologized to him.
According to human rights activists, she was released in December 2023 upon expiration of her sentence.
6 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Yegor was accused of tearing down the flag from the Euroopt store on the night of July 2-3. As the guy explained, he was drunk, walking with friends. He saw the flag, jumped up, grabbed a tree. The flagpole suddenly broke, its remnants were left hanging on the wall. He and his friends left the scene. On July 3, 2023, Yegor was detained by the police and placed in pre-trial detention. At the trial, the prosecutor announced the amount of "damage" from Zhukov's actions: 21 rubles.
3 months of arrest
27-year-old Ruslan tore off the state flag from one of the stores in Pruzhany, after which he threw it on the ground. This was qualified as "desecration of state symbols."
3 months of arrest
On November 10, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
3 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
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OMON officers detained Alexander in the village of Rositsa in the Verkhnedvinsky district. Searches were conducted at Kukharenok's apartment in Novopolotsk, his parents' apartment in Novopolotsk, and also in the village of Rositsa. So far, it is known that he is charged under Article 361 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Alexander Kukharenok was one of the very first to declare a strike at the enterprise in 2020. He was also arrested on an administrative case - in 2021, he served 20 days of arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
On 02.04.2024 the preventive measure was replaced by house arrest. On 11.09.2024 the charges were dropped.
The man was accused of writing a telegram comment about a certain Minister of Education of the Republic of Belarus on June 23, 2022. In the commentary, the examination found a “negative assessment” of the minister, expressed “in a non-standard form.”
10/06/2023 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 months of arrest
According to the prosecution , Andrei Kholupko, using a mobile phone on the Odnoklassniki social network, in 2020, 2021 and 2023, put four likes on caricatured images of Alexander Lukashenko, in which he was shown as a clown, a monkey, and also together with Vladimir Putin in the pit, thereby publicly, in the public domain, insulted the president.
At the trial, Kholupko indicated that by liking he did not think that this was an insult, he added that no one paid him money for this and he acted impulsively.
On February 24, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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