According to the prosecution version, Mikhail from October 2021 to January 8, 2022 in vk.com He left comments with a negative assessment and a call for violent actions against A.G. Lukashenko. Before the trial, as well as during the trial itself, Mikhail completely refused to testify. But at the same time, at the court hearing, he stated that he fully admits guilt. Before the trial, Mikhail was in custody.
A resident of the village of Shchorsy in the Novogrudok district. He was accused of reposting a message from the group "Grodno Region of Change!" on his page on the social network "Odnoklassniki". The message itself was dedicated to two employees of penal institutions.
Before the trial, Viktor Pilzhis was placed under house arrest as a preventive measure from September 12, 2022. This means that Pilzhis was prohibited from leaving his home, using the Internet, or using communications.
In addition to the two-year prison sentence, the court ordered Viktor Pilzhis to pay the two security officials 10,000 Belarusian rubles as compensation for their moral damages.
On 06.12.2022, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released on October 12, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 13.10.2022
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Vasily was convicted in a criminal case brought under the articles “insulting a government official” and “discrediting the Republic of Belarus” and sentenced to imprisonment.
On February 27, 2024, a hearing was held in the Borisovsky District Court on the case "on the establishment of preventive supervision." This meant that Vasily was to be released in early March after his term expired. However, in June of the same year, he was given a new trial under the article "malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration." This article is usually applied to prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, often for fictitious violations.
On March 17, 2025, a hearing was held in the Volkovysk District Court “on the establishment of preventive supervision.”
According to human rights activists, Vasily was released in April 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Maxim was accused of insulting the deputy commander of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, Khazalbek Atabekov.
On February 17, the man left a comment on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus": "A rare asshole, I know him personally, fate turned out in such a way that I had to meet him when he was the brigade commander of 3214...".
According to the expert's conclusion, the comment contains "a negative assessment of Kh. B. Atabekov, which has an obscene form of linguistic expression."
According to human rights activists, he was released in December 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Convicted for the comment "The Kingdom of Heaven to them!", written in the group "ATN: News of Belarus and the World" under the video recording of the story "In Belarus they said goodbye to hero pilots Andrei Nichiporchik and Nikita Kukonenko" from the territory of the Russian Federation, where he was at that time , in the social network Facebook.
Sergei was released from custody in the courtroom. As a result, the pensioner spent two months more in custody than was appointed by the court, but compensation in this case is not provided for by law.
Daria was detained on June 16. First, the girl was sentenced to 11 days in an administrative case. After her arrest, Daria went to the police department to pick up the phone, but there she was re-detained on a criminal case. The basis for initiating the case was photographs from peaceful protests in 2020, Tik-Tok videos and private correspondence.
She was released at the end of the summer of 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 05.10.2022:
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Artist, former head of the creative community "Pogonya". He was detained in August 2022 and sentenced to 15 days of arrest. It later became known that a criminal case was opened against Gennady for participating in protests in 2020.
According to human rights activists , he was released on February 26, 2025.
Trial outcome 04.05.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Vyacheslav was detained on March 22, 2022, allegedly for disobeying employees. The court appointed 15 days of administrative arrest, after which Vyacheslav was charged under the first part of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for a comment in social networks. He was placed in custody.
Goalkeeper of the football club «Smena» (Volkovysk). An employee of JSC «Bellakt», a public activist.
It follows from the materials of the prosecution that Yuri in the «STOP LUKA» community, which is recognized as an extremist formation, posted an image of a red-green flag against the background of Nazi symbols (swastikas), the semantic content of the image of which is the author's opinion that Nazi ideology is used in the administration of the Republic of Belarus. Yuri did not actually admit his guilt in court, he explained that he did not intend to mock the national flag and only accidentally liked it.
Initially, an administrative case was brought against Yuri under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code and punished with a fine, and later a criminal case was also initiated. Yuri has a minor child
Released in early autumn 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
According to the materials of the prosecution, at the end of September 2021, Oleg Dutchik posted in vk.com a comment in which he spoke negatively about the death of an employee of the State Security Committee Dmitry Fedosyuk in Minsk.
In addition, over the past year, the man has repeatedly posted negative statements in various communities with insults to the president, humiliated his honor and dignity.
The last post in his account in vk.ru it was made on March 27 and was as follows: «Arrest is a restriction of freedom».
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