The essence of the case and the verdict were commented on by the assistant prosecutor of Brest on state television. From the video and the prosecutor’s commentary, it follows that Sankovskaya was charged with the following: in 2020 and 2021, in one telegram chat she published an image of the state flag of Belarus, and in the background there was a Nazi swastika (this was a “desecration of state symbols”), and also again in Telegram messenger published an “insulting” message about Yuri Karaev (remember that from June 2019 to the end of October 2020 Karaev was the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after which he took the post of Assistant to the President for the Grodno region), and also in the Telegram messenger published several messages about A. Lukashenko, which were also considered “offensive.”
Former political prisonersPardoned
Irina Georgievna Sankovskaya
- Dissidentby
- Viasna
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Sentences
Trial outcome 14.12.2023
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Involved in repression

Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka
MoreOverseers27 december 1979
- Place:
- SIZO-7
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility

Aliaksandr Mikalayevich Kuzniatsou (Dzhasau)
MoreOverseers21 march 1991
- Place:
- IK-4
- Type:
- Correctional officer

Denis Anatolyevich Tolstoystenkov
MoreOverseers17 august 1977
- Place:
- IK-4
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility

Stanislav Sergeevich Kovalev
MoreOverseers12 december 1984
- Place:
- IK-4
- Type:
- Head of the correctional facility

- In custody:
- from 14.09.2023 to 20.08.2024
- Hometown:
- Brest
- Birthday:
- 30.12.1964
- Was held in:
- IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
- Articles:
- Insulting the presidentInsulting of a government representativeMistreatment of State symbols













