Vera, 51 years old, worked as a janitor in a Vitebsk hostel.
According to the materials of the criminal case, Vera Strunina, on the evening of October 3, 2020, while at work in the hostel, posted a brief comment to the Vitebsk policeman Vitaly Shnyavin.
The comment was published in Instagram (public "Tipichniy Vitebsk") under the post with photos of Shnyavin. One of the pictures was taken on September 13, 2020 in Vitebsk during a mass action. On it, the policeman Shnyavin sprays gas towards citizens.
1,5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the investigation, on October 12, 2020, at about 21:00, Zaikovsky, in a state of alcoholic intoxication on Dzerzhinsky Avenue with other unidentified persons, resisted police officers, threatened them with violence, and threw a beer glass towards the police bus.
He did not admit his guilt.
On October 20, 2022, in colony No. 2, the consideration of the case against Alexander under Part 1 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus
In December 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years in prison in a general regime colony + compulsory treatment for alcoholism
40-year-old resident of Baranovichi. Convicted "for the offensive nature" of the comment in social networks in relation to Karaev Yu.Kh.
Started serving his sentence on 11/14/2021
Russian citizen. Arrested on May 28, 2021 for a tweet written on May 23. The tweet led to a publication in LiveJournal with a reprint of the BBC Russian Service material about the incident with the Ryanair plane (on which Roman Protasevich was flying). Vikholm added her own title to the reprint: "Lukashenko's next crime: an act of state air piracy" , and the phrase "act of state air piracy" was cited in the text of the BBC as a reaction of the Greek Foreign Ministry.
On September 1, 2022, she was released after the expiration of her sentence and immediately deported to the Russian Federation without the right to enter the Republic of Belarus for 10 years.
09.09.2021 | 09/16/2021 court will be held |
Trial outcome 20.09.2021: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
A 30-year-old resident of Gomel, a hearing-impaired, deaf-mute, was convicted of insulting "the head of state, government officials and threatening violence against a judge", was taken into custody in the courtroom. Dmitry's hearing aid was taken away.
detained on August 7, 2021. Charged for a comment in the telegram chat Pinsk 97%.
04/08/2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
2 years in prison.
On September 27, 2020, she was detained and convicted under an administrative charge. After the trial, she had a seizure and was admitted to a mental hospital. Larisa has a depressive-anxious state with claustrophobia syndrome. On August 6, 2021, they came to her place of work, conducted a search and, after interrogation, placed her in a temporary detention facility for three days. On August 9, charges were brought under Art. 364 for the fact that she “took P.P. Petrov by the hand with brute physical force, thereby moving him from his place and did not allow him to work, and third parties committed violence against I.I. Ivanov.”
She was released in May 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years in prison .
Resident of Lida, 1st year student at the Faculty of Geography of BSU. She was convicted of allegedly making an offensive comment in a chat towards a representative of the Lida Investigative Committee and for “organizing actions that grossly violate public order.” She began serving her sentence on August 30, 2021.
On February 29, 2024, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to open institutions.
Entrepreneur. He was detained on July 23, 2021 in Molodechno for "calling for protests and leaking data from the security forces." He was sentenced to 12 days of administrative arrest, but then he was not released, but transferred to the pre-trial detention center of the Zhodzina prison.
Convicted for tearing down the flag from the ZhREO.
According to estimates by human rights activists, in the fall of 2022, he fully served his sentence.
1 year restriction of freedom with direction.
On March 27, 2021, using the personal page of Mikhail Lintovsky in Odnoklassniki, he posted a video in which he used it against Lukashenka. Orphan.
According to human rights activists, he was released in February 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
16.09.2021 | From a letter dated 09/07/2021: patronymic Vasilyevich, date of birth 11/13/1987, no parents or relatives. |
1.5 years in prison .
According to the indictment, Igor Grishchenkov publicly insulted Lukashenka from October 26, 2020 to November 13, 2021 in the Let's Help Baranovichi chat. Three times he posted there a photograph of Lukashenka "in a humiliating form - clown makeup." Under one of the posts, he posted a comment that contained the word "rat", under the second - "schizophrenic". The examination recognized that the comments "contain a negative assessment of the male personality, placed on the photo”.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years of restriction of liberty .
Convicted on the "case of round dances" and damage to cells.
28.12.2021 | 12/21/2021 was registered as an extremist |
2 years of restriction of liberty .
Convicted in the "round dance case" in Brest.
At the end of 2023 he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years of restriction of liberty .
Convicted in the "round dance case" in Brest.
07/23/2022 released after expiration of sentence.
On December 6, 2023, it became known that Alexander was detained again for participating in the protests on August 10, 2020. In the “repentance video,” he says that he was convicted for the “round dance case,” and that on August 10 he stood in the front row on Sovetskaya Street.
Trial outcome 30.08.2021: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 05.04.2024: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 31.05.2024: the sentence was upheld.
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