The reason for the detention of Sergei was a photo from the book "I'm leaving." According to the results of the examination of the phone, another photo with a different date was found. As a result of the case, there were 2 episodes of participation in protests.
Trial outcome 01.11.2022:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
Head of the legal department of the network of salons "In Connection". According to pro-government telegram channels, 26-year-old Ilona Belous participated in post-election protests. In the "repentant video", the girl denies her participation in mass events and access to the roadway.
At the court session , Natalia said that she and her husband saw how a group of citizens with symbols were heading towards Independence Avenue. They also decided to walk with the crowd, while moving along the sidewalk. Having reached the avenue, they saw that the roadway was blocked by police officers. At some point, they went out onto the roadway near the pedestrian crossing to take pictures, while wearing white-red-white ribbons on their wrists.
Trial outcome 27.10.2022:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Vitaliy Matyush said at the court session that he and his wife saw a group of citizens with symbols heading towards Independence Avenue. They also decided to walk with the crowd, while moving along the sidewalk. Having reached the avenue, they saw that the roadway was blocked by police officers. At some point, my wife and I went out onto the roadway near the pedestrian crossing to take a picture, while they had white-red-white ribbons on their wrists.
Trial outcome 27.10.2022:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Detained for participating in protests in 2020. She was summoned to the UK for a conversation and was detained there for photographs from the protests.
Trial outcome 25.11.2022:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
According to the materials of the prosecution , Stasyulevich and Marvina, having learned from the Internet about the planned protest action in Minsk, on one of the September days of 2020, took part in an unauthorized mass event, moved in a column on the territory of the city of Minsk, including on the roadway and near Independence Avenue and Lenin Street, while Stasyulevich publicly shouted slogans, blocked and blocked the way for vehicles.
The prosecution believes that the irrefutable evidence of their guilt is photographs and video recordings, which record the circumstances of their actions.
According to the materials of the prosecution , Stasyulevich and Marvina, having learned from the Internet about the planned protest action in Minsk, on one of the September days of 2020, took part in an unauthorized mass event, moved in a column on the territory of the city of Minsk, including on the roadway and near Independence Avenue and Lenin Street, while Stasyulevich publicly shouted slogans, blocked and blocked the way for vehicles.
The prosecution believes that the irrefutable evidence of their guilt is photographs and video recordings, which record the circumstances of their actions.
Sergey Myts left his comment on the social network Vkontakte: "The person shot the bandit who broke into his apartment." Less than a day later, the man deleted the comment. On the same evening, after the removal, the security forces came to him, detained him, and placed the man in a pre-trial detention center. In the pre-trial detention center on the second day, Sergei had a hypertensive crisis, he was hospitalized.
During the investigation, the Brest resident was initially accused under two articles of the Criminal Code: Article 369 and Article 130. Then the charge under the second article was dropped - although when announcing the charge, the prosecutor used the phrase "for the purpose of inciting hatred" more than once. Sergei Myts himself denied such an interpretation, arguing that he had no malicious intent. But at the trial he fully admitted his guilt under Article 369 of the Criminal Code
Trial outcome 21.10.2022:
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
The man was accused of leaving an offensive comment under a post with a photo of Gantsevichi traffic police officer Igor Volnich in June 2020, who was pressing his knee to the head of a protester lying on the ground.
In addition to the restriction of freedom, the judge decided to pay 1,500 rubles of moral compensation to the Gantsevichi policeman and confiscate the accused's laptop as a means of committing a crime.
Trial outcome 28.12.2021:
2 years of restriction of liberty without referral to an open correctional facility
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