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According to the court ruling, the essence of Roman’s charges under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (active participation in actions that grossly violate public order) is that he is at two protests in the fall of 2020 in Minsk. It is known that a photo of him on the roadway at a protest was found on Roman’s phone. The photos were discovered during phone inspections on June 2 and September 13, 2023. A bike was found at the man’s home, in which he took part in the protest. She was evidence in the case.
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
1.5 years of probation
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A Latvian citizen, Alla and a friend came to Belarus for a few days to undergo cosmetic surgery. As the women were leaving, they were detained by KGB officers. After her release, Alla recounted : " During interrogation, it was revealed that I had been taken hostage to be exchanged for a Belarusian who was in Latvia. They told me directly, 'Tell your people that the Belarusians need their man.' They wanted my relatives to contact the Latvian security services to arrange the exchange. My friend, a Russian citizen, was released on the third day, but I remained a Latvian citizen."
Alla was accused of traveling to Belarus for intelligence purposes under the guise of cosmetic surgery. According to investigators, she collected intelligence on behalf of her Latvian intelligence handlers, spied, and even recruited Belarusian servicemen for the Ukrainian army. Her trial began in the Minsk City Court on September 29, 2023. She is accused of being an agent.
On December 19, 2023, the appeal was heard.
On December 13, 2025, she was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
It is known that the man was found from a photograph on Instagram. Before the trial, Andrei was in custody.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
Kirill was accused of participating in protests in Minsk in 2020, entering the roadway and blocking public transport. The man was also accused of being in a clutch in the front rows of protesters on Maxim Bogdanovich Street in Minsk. Photos of this episode were found in one of the telegram channels. Kirill fully admitted his guilt.
After the verdict was announced, he was released from custody in the courtroom.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
Elena was detained in connection with the “round dance” case. She was returning from Poland to Brest. At passport control, the border guards became interested in the fact that the woman was born in Ukraine. She was handed over to unknown people in civilian clothes who demanded a phone number.
As a result, the woman was detained. After that there was an administrative court (15 days of arrest under Part 2 of Article 19. 11 of the Administrative Code) through two reposts in Telegram. And then the woman was placed in a pre-trial detention center until trial.
It is known that Elena lived in Brest and went to Poland for shopping.
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction
Natalya was accused of participating in a protest in Minsk in 2020, entering the roadway and blocking public transport. She fully admitted guilt. Natalya and her friend Vasily were identified from the video recording.
Before the trial, both were on bail of 7,400 rubles
2 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
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Vasily and his girlfriend Natalya were accused of participating in a protest in Minsk in 2020, entering the roadway and blocking public transport. They fully admitted their guilt. The Belarusians were identified from a video recording.
Before the trial, both were held on bail of 7,400 rubles.
46-year-old Vasily Kroes is a native of Mogilev. Graduated from Minsk State Linguistic University, Faculty of Spanish. At the beginning of the 2000s, he worked as a teacher at the Belarusian-Russian University in Mogilev for a couple of years. Lately I have been translating from Spanish, Portuguese and English as a self-employed entrepreneur.
2 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
4 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction
According to the prosecution, Nikolai Samokhval made an obscene comment towards Lukashenko in the presence of his wife and bailiffs, who came to their apartment to ask questions about their neighbors. The statement was allegedly obscene and humiliated the honor and dignity of Lukashenko, and also assessed him negatively.
Nikolai Vasilyevich did not admit guilt at trial. He said he was at home with his wife when two girls in uniform came to ask about their neighbors. When they were leaving, through his emotions he said the phrase indicated in the expert’s conclusions, but in no way related it to Lukashenko - it referred to the need to change the system as a whole. The prosecution noted that during pre-trial proceedings Samokhval admitted that the phrase was directed towards Lukashenko. It was recorded on the bailiff's video recorder and formed the basis of the charges.
It is worth noting that the expert was unable to determine whether Lukashenko was the object of the negative assessment, since this cannot be done using linguistic methods.
1 year restriction of freedom without direction
The guy worked as a senior salesman. The investigation claims that Vitaly "as part of a crowd of people went out onto the roadway of the Pervomayskaya highway in Zhlobin, occupying (tightly filling) the area between the buildings located along Pervomayskaya Street..., acting jointly and in concert in a group with other people" until one o'clock in the morning, interfered with the movement of public transport, clapped his hands, whistled, loudly shouted slogans and "demonstratively and disdainfully, openly refused to comply with the demands of government officials."
Before the trial he was held on bail.
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unknown years of restriction of freedom without direction.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction.