Persecuted for political reasonsForced emigration

Denis Kazimirovich Petko

The convicted man is 34 years old. He worked as a craftsman in Verkhnedvinsk.

In late October 2021, the man was detained by the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK). Denis was accused of posting offensive comments under photos of Armed Forces personnel, a senior assistant prosecutor of a Minsk district, journalists, and Lukashenko in the summer of 2020, while administering a closed Telegram chat.

Sentences

Trial outcome 23.02.2022
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Regime change trial 07.02.2025
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).

Involved in repression

Victor Iosifovich Baliko
Victor Iosifovich Baliko
Judges11 may 1983
Place:
court of Verkhnedvinsk district
Type:
Court of First Instance
Date:
07.02.2025
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Denis Kazimirovich Petko
Hometown:
Verhnedvinsk
Birthday:
10.02.1987
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Timeline

  1. 2022
  2. 23.02.2022

    Trial outcome 23.02.2022

    2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility

  3. ~23.02.2022

    Status change

    Released pending appeal

  4. 23.03.2022

    Status change

    Forced emigration

  5. 2025
  6. 07.02.2025

    Regime change trial 07.02.2025

    unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia), court of Verkhnedvinsk district