According to the case materials , Savinsky transferred the equivalent of 50 US dollars to the accounts of funds recognized as “extremist” over the course of a year and a half. At the same time, he repeatedly used his Facebook account. He also created and posted 4 text messages in one of the telegram chats, allegedly aimed at “inciting social hostility in society.”
On January 12, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Trial outcome 15.11.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 200 basic values fine.
According to the case materials , the defendant subscribed to Telegram channels in 2022 and actively participated in their activities through Telegram bots. Specifically, while in Gomel, he took photos and videos of military equipment movements. He then sent these photos and videos, along with commentary on the vehicles' routes, to Telegram channels through the bots that facilitated his activities. The court ruled that the Telegram resources used by the defendant constituted extremist material.
Graduate of the River Fleet vocational school.
On January 9, 2024, the appeal was heard. The verdict entered into force.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the fall of 2025.
Trial outcome 08.11.2023
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Artyom was found guilty in December 2023 of several criminal charges, including "insulting a government official," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released on March 20, 2026, as part of a pardon following another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole.
Trial outcome 01.12.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 150 basic values fine.
Most likely, Pavel was detained after the Atolino telegram chat was recognized as an “extremist formation” by a decision of the KGB on August 31 and included in the corresponding list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on September 6.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs indicates the names of the formation participants. These are Pavel Ivanov, Dmitry Tikunov, Evgenia Mostovaya (Grigorik), Pavel Belonitsky, Alexey Semenov, Yuri Antonovich, Alexander Zaitsev and Vladimir Polekh.
Before the trial, the spouses raising a minor child were on high bail - 7,400 and 3,700 rubles, respectively.
According to the case file , 31-year-old individual entrepreneur Kirill Prokopov and his 28-year-old wife, deputy chief physician of a health care institution, Victoria, on a day off in the fall of 2020, “were and moved along Independence Avenue, violated public order, disobeyed the legal demands of police officers , at the same time, together with others, they blocked and blocked the path of vehicles, as a result of which there was a disruption in the operation of public transport, which caused material damage to the Minsktrans enterprise in the amount of 5,980 rubles 11 kopecks.”
Trial outcome 02.11.2023:
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
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