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Volunteer of the Gomel branch of the Human Rights Center "Vesna".
She was detained late in the evening on January 18 and placed in a temporary detention center. Her house was also searched. Previously, Maria Tarasenko actively advocated the abolition of the so-called decree on "parasites" and sued local officials of the Gomel region, who forbade protests against the decree. She was released three days later on bail.
Yulia, the chief accountant of the IT company PandaDoc, was detained on September 2, 2020, at the company's office on charges of fraud by employees of the Financial Investigation Department.
Following the events of August 2020, PandaDoc founder Nikita Mikado launched the Protect Belarus initiative to support dismissed law enforcement officers who refused to follow illegal orders. The initiative received over 500 applications and attracted public attention.
Yulia was released in October 2020 on bail.
Yulia was detained and convicted for installing a scarecrow, which, according to investigators, resembled Lukashenko, in the regional center on Varshavskoe Shosse.
In November 2024, a court hearing was held regarding Yulia to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Olga, an activist of the Country for Life project and a member of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s initiative group, took part in protests after the presidential elections and was repeatedly detained.
On November 15, 2020, she was detained in the courtyard of the "Square of Changes", where peaceful protesters gathered for a rally in memory of Roman Bondarenko, killed by security forces, under the slogan "I'm coming out". After that, a criminal case was opened against Olga.
In February 2021, she was convicted of “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order.” She left Belarus some time later.
In October 2024, a court hearing was held in absentia to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
She left a comment in "Klichev-chat": "There are no such words in my lexicon, which would have fallen to a getam bastard."
2 years in prison with a suspended sentence.
According to the prosecution, on February 18, 2021, Alexander Kushneruk left an insulting comment in the “Dvizh” group of the social network “VKontakte” under a publication with a text about how the drug control officer Shramov and the district police officer Shlupakov “sacrifice their lives” filmed white-red-white balloons, wrote a comment with the following content: "Assholes! Fuckers!".
The victim in the case was a police officer Yuri Chernyshkov, who had already been in this status in a number of cases and said that he would bring to justice all 97 commentators who offended him.
The case was opened because of two comments on the Vkontakte social network, which Alexandrov left in February 2021 under the photographs of Alexander Leonidovich Shlupakov and Sergei Vladimirovich Shramov.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
Ekaterina was accused of insulting a representative of the authorities, an employee of the prosecutor's office of the Frunzensky district of Minsk, Taratenko.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
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Sergey Mashnitsky said that he is not a political person and mostly spends time in the country, watching scientific and educational films from a laptop in the evenings. And while watching them during the election campaign, “all sorts of bloggers” often popped up, some of them I watched for educational purposes. So he drew attention to "this Karach", which "pearled at the president, the state is an ardent fighter." So he decided to leave a comment. He wanted to write "with * ka white-haired", but the button jammed and hit Volnich: Mashnitsky has no claims against him, since he himself worked in the police, worked under a contract in Moscow.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
an activist from Dubrovno convicted in a criminal case of libel. He has been serving his sentence since October 10, 2021.
3 years restriction of liberty with referral to an open-type correctional institution ("chemistry")
Denis was detained on September 9, 2021. Denis was charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (Actions grossly violating public order) for participating in the August protests in 2020 and placed in a pre-trial detention center.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
Detained on July 15, 2021. Former teacher of the Minsk gymnasium. She was convicted 7 times under the administrative article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities) for sending news from telegram channels to each other with her husband.
In total, Anastasia received 126 days of administrative arrest. Also under this article, her husband Sergei is serving another administrative arrest.
Arrested on July 15, 2021. A programmer from Minsk, convicted 7 times under the administrative article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities) because he and his wife forwarded messages to each other from Telegram channels.
In total, the man received 127 days of arrest. Also under this article, his wife Anastasia is serving another administrative arrest.
He was detained for participating in a coupling at protests. Was calculated from the photo.
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.