According to the indictment, Yegor Bagdevich, using a special application, prepared 10 videos with excerpts from films and music videos lasting up to 10 seconds, in which the face of a movie character or singer was changed to Lukashenko’s face.
At the end of August and beginning of September 2020, the accused posted videos in a city Telegram group.
At first, Yegor was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of restriction of freedom and sent to an open correctional facility. Then the sentence was changed to 2 years.
According to human rights activists, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome:
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
An entrepreneur and TikTok blogger from Bobruisk was detained on April 28, 2022 right at his place of work - in his store.
It is known that Andrei is involved in a criminal case for insulting the president. After the arrest, GUBOPiK seized Belyavsky’s TikTok account. Before his arrest, Belyavsky’s account had more than 100,000 followers.
01/05/2024 released after expiration of sentence.
Trial outcome 22.08.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Political activist from Grodno. In 2017, he spoke at protests related to the introduction of a “tax on parasitism.” In 2019, I set up a tent in front of the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Grodno to solve the housing problem. In 2020, Lavrentiev, together with activist Nikolai Solyanik, held a number of actions for the introduction of quarantine in Belarus during the coronavirus pandemic. Before the 2020 presidential elections, the activist was serving administrative arrest for an action during a meeting with Sergei Tikhanovsky. In the fall of 2020, he left Belarus for Poland.
In Poland, he volunteered to help two Belarusian refugees. but in December 2020, Alexander disappeared from a rented apartment in Bialystok. The girls' money also disappeared with him. He did not answer calls or messages. He told his friend that he calmly crossed the Polish-Belarusian border, but his case in Belarus was closed due to lack of evidence. In 2021, Alexander purchased a food truck and worked in one of the microdistricts of Grodno. I was selling shawarma. On May 2, 2022, Lavrentyev was detained right at his workplace. Detained by the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Grodno Region. After the arrest, the Grodno resident said on camera that he was detained for distributing extremist information online and insulting the president. He admitted guilt.
On October 11, 2022, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
In the summer of 2024, it became known that Grodno resident Alexander Lavrentiev was given another 1 year of imprisonment in a colony under Article 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (“malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of a correctional institution”).
Trial outcome 02.08.2022
3 years 4 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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