On January 24, 2023, a trial to commute Sergei's sentence was held in the Kamenets District Court. Judge OksanaShkel rejected the Correctional Institution's motion to transfer him to a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2025.
According to the investigation, Alexander Pugach from October 2020 to March 2022 insulted the head of state, as well as government officials, including the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus, in connection with the performance of their official duties in Telegram.
Judge Ruslan Tsaruk appointed, in addition to imprisonment, compensation for moral damage in the amount of 10 000 BYN and 3 200 BYN.
Trial outcome 16.01.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
In early September, the Telegram channel of the volunteer initiative "Lists of Detainees" published information about the detention of an entire family : Yan, Anastasia and Ales Papkovich. Anastasia was released. And Yan and Ales were transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1. During the detention, Ales' phone and equipment were taken away. As a result, one photo from the 2020 march was found. For it, the guy was given 2 years in prison.
Ales has been interested in music since childhood, - says the brother of the political prisoner. - He knows many Belarusian performers, played with some of them. For example, he performed with cover bands in Minsk clubs, performed with the group "D-Major" as a violinist. The last two years before his arrest were especially creative for Ales - he wrote several lyrics for songs, music for them, made recordings. Ales sings in Belarusian.
10.06.2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Stepan is 23 years old, he is a resident of Novolukoml. He was accused of having made extremist inscriptions on the pipeline of the Lukoml power station in March of this year, and two months later painted images of white-red-white and blue-yellow flags on the surface of an artillery piece installed on the territory of a military burial in the village of Starie Lavki of the Chashniki district.
Trial outcome 26.08.2022
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Natalia was arrested in the fall of 2021 as part of the "Zeltser case" for online comments; the charges were later amended. In August 2022, she was found guilty of leaving a comment in the Telegram chats "Typical Belarus" and "Tea with Raspberry Jam," which, according to investigators, "humiliated the authority, honor, and dignity of" Lukashenko.
She was released in March 2023, having fully served her sentence as imposed by the court.
He was the director and head coach of the branch of the kickboxing and Thai boxing club "Patriot" in Borisov.
Sentenced to 2 months of arrest for posting a caricature of A.G. Lukashenko on the VKontakte social network on August 17, 2020, which allegedly "in its semantic content reflected a negative assessment of the personality" of A.G. Lukashenko, as well as "sharp criticism of the socio-political situation". According to the expert who conducted the "forensic cultural examination", the caricature discredited the state power in the person of A.G. Lukashenko.
After his release, Nikolai was brought to administrative responsibility in May 2023 for storing Belsat's publication on a page on the Odnoklassniki social network. Nikolai did not admit guilt. He was sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
According to the prosecution , from May to November 2021, Alexander "posted offensive comments about Lukashenko on various Internet resources."
The man also left offensive texts in obscene language regarding the Chairman of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus Ivan Tertel, the Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission Lyudmila Yermoshina, deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus, as well as a prosecutor.
According to human rights activists , he will be released at the end of May 2025.
Valentin is accused of making offensive comments about Lukashenko, Karanik, and Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Valery worked as a kindergarten security guard.
On October 13, 2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict entered into force.
Accused of attacking journalist Azarenka and participating in protests in 2020.
According to the prosecution , Artem Zabelenkov was on Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk on October 11, 2020, where he demanded to stop filming a pro-government TV channel. He also allegedly “used violence against journalist Grigory Azarenka and threatened television cameraman Andrei Ivanenko with violence.” In addition, Artem Zabelenkov is accused of taking an active part in group actions on October 11, 2020, together with other persons, grossly violating public order, resulting in disruption of transport and enterprises.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Ivan Muravyov is 43 years old. At one time, he was at the origins of the STV TV channel, but for the last ten years he has been engaged in managing the famous hookah bar «Kaliannaya No. 1» on Karl Marx Street.
Detained the Investigative Committee in a hookah bar. Muravyov did not participate in the protests of 2020 (but he had an administrative arrest. He turned out to be a random victim who was dragged out of the car by law enforcement officers during the protests).
The defendant is known to have previously run a "banned" blog on YouTube. The case of insulting a representative of the authorities was brought against him back in 2021.
Trial outcome 26.08.2022:
Released from criminal liability due to the expiration of the statute of limitations
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