Detained for participating in protests. Identified from a photograph.
15.02.2022
Master's student of Belarusian State Pedagogical University majoring in psychology. He likes to play computer games, draw, compose songs and poems. She had her own channel on Twitch.
Trial outcome:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Convicted for participating in protests. The basis for initiating a criminal case was a banal denunciation by one of his former friends, who, having seen his photo on Instagram against the backdrop of a protest action, forwarded it to the police some time later. Boris has a child.
Dmitry was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." The charges stemmed from a comment he posted on the sports website "Tribuna." According to the prosecution, the comment contained incitement to violence against Interior Minister Karaev.
Dmitry has psychological issues. He was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility, as well as to compulsory treatment.
Trial outcome 22.04.2021
4 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, outpatient psychiatric observation.
Dmitry was found guilty in December 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment posted on the social media site Odnoklassniki about Andrei Komar, a senior district police officer in Bobruisk.
Trial outcome 08.12.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Natalia was found guilty in November 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment posted on the social network Odnoklassniki about the senior district police inspector of the Bobruisk Department of Internal Affairs, Police Captain Andrei Komar.
Trial outcome 15.11.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1087 rubles of compensation.
Oleg was found guilty in November 2021 of insulting a government official. The case was prompted by a comment posted in the "Belarusian Prison" group on the social network VKontakte, which included the phrase "ghoul, half-captain" referring to Igor Petrov, the head of the special prison corrections department at Penal Colony No. 1 of the UDIN in the Vitebsk Region.
When asked by the state prosecutor whether he knew the victim, Oleg answered in the affirmative, explaining that he had known the victim since he was serving his prison sentence in Correctional Colony No. 1 in Novopolotsk.
In November 2022, a court hearing was held to discuss the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with a non-custodial sentence. The outcome of the hearing is unknown.
Vasily was found guilty in October 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social network Odnoklassniki under photographs of police officers Sergei Vladimirovich Shramov and Alexander Leonidovich Shlupakov.
Trial outcome 19.10.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 2000 rubles of compensation.
Natalia was found guilty in October 2021 in a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official.
According to the indictment, on June 13, 2021, she left the comment "What a fat face" under a post in the "Sasha Belousov" community on the social network Odnoklassniki, which featured a photo of Dmitry Vishnevsky, head of the Orsha District Department of Internal Affairs, and the caption "accomplice of the fascist regime."
Natalya explained in court that she did not consider her comment offensive, since Dostoevsky had a literary expression, “a shiny fat mug.”
Trial outcome 18.10.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Viktor was convicted in October 2021 of insulting a government official. He was found guilty of insulting Olga Chemodanova, then the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in a Telegram channel designated as extremist.
Trial outcome 18.10.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 8000 rubles of compensation.
Valery was found guilty in September 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment posted on the social network Odnoklassniki, in which, according to the prosecution, he publicly insulted police officer Manaev.
Trial outcome 17.09.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1087 rubles of compensation.
Irina was found guilty in September 2021 in a criminal case opened for insulting police officers on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus." The victims in the case were S.A. Sukhorukov, Deputy Head of the Novobelitsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Gomel, and Sergei Malinovsky, a serviceman from military unit No. 10091. The comments themselves were not made public in court.
Trial outcome 17.09.2021
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 2000 rubles of compensation.
Viktor was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment posted on the social network Odnoklassniki under a video showing traffic police detaining people.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
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