46-year-old Alexander is accused of trying to join the Kastus Kalinovsky regiment.
Pro-government telegram channels posted the “repentance video” with Gomel resident Alexander Ainutdinov on July 18. In it, a man says that on February 24, when Russia started the war in Ukraine, he began “reading different telegram channels” and decided to join the Kastus Kalinowski Regiment to defend Ukraine. To do this, Alexander tried to illegally cross the border with Ukraine, but was detained by Belarusian border guards.
On 02/03/2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
2 years and 1 month of imprisonment in a penal colony.
unknown years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility
Convicted for participating in protests.
01/04/2024 released upon expiration of the sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Diana has a minor child with a disability.
According to the indictment, Smolyakov , Asmolovsky and Chernushina took an active part in the protest in Minsk on August 23, 2020. Members of the UCP grossly violated public order, did not respond to calls from police officers, disturbed the peace of citizens and obstructed the movement of public transport.
She was released in the spring of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment.
In the apartment where the man lives with his wife and son, law enforcement officers knocked in the morning. Valery himself was not at home, he went out to the store with his dog. law enforcement officers found out where he was, checked the phones, and then forced both of them to move to another room and keep their heads down.
Judging by the sounds that came to the apartment from the entrance, when Valery approached his entrance about 40 minutes later, he was knocked face down into the ground, after which he was brought into the apartment for about half a minute. They tried to find out his phone password at home, and when the man refused to call him, they took him out of the apartment without any explanation.
At the beginning of December 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted for liking A.G. Lukashenko’s portrait. with an offensive comment on the Odnoklassniki network.
On April 15, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the case materials, Ivan, together with Denis Voroby, twice on the night of July 23-24, 2022 “In order to demonstrate their offensive and blasphemous attitude towards the state symbol, they tore down the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus installed on the building of a rural club, damaging its fastening.” They photographed and filmed their actions on mobile phones.
According to human rights activists, he was released in October 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the case materials, Denis, together with Ivan Voroby, twice on the night of July 23-24, 2022 “In order to demonstrate their offensive and blasphemous attitude towards the state symbol, they tore down the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus installed on the building of a rural club, damaging its fastening.” They photographed and filmed their actions on mobile phones.
According to human rights activists, he was released in October 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Prior to his detention, Nikolai worked as a chemical engineer. Has a child.
He was found guilty of having created and posted in the group «Strong News» on the social network vk.ru information discrediting Belarus. It is known that it contained the words «hop» and «break».
Nikolai was released in the courtroom because he had fully served his term.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the materials of the prosecution, Maxim Kurovsky intentionally posted messages in one of the Telegram chats against President Lukashenko, obscene in form and offensive in content.
The examination found that the messages contained a negative assessment of the head of state, humiliated his honor and dignity. Moreover, he used the Belarusian language at the same time. Former investigator of the Pruzhansky district department of the Investigative Committee. He retired from the service in 2020.
12/06/2024 released after expiration of sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
It is known that the case of Evgeniy Ragutsky was considered behind closed doors.
Before the meeting, he was under house arrest for almost a year. He has had a disease since childhood - rheumatoid arthritis.
Initially, it was reported that the guy was detained and held in the Gomel temporary detention center for a post on Telegram.
On December 23, 2022, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
1 month of arrest
According to the telegram channels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was detained for registration in the «Peramoga plan».
He was detained on October 13, 2022 under an administrative article, on October 28 he was arrested again under the article for participating in protest actions.
On August 5, 2023, he was released after the expiration of the sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in the colony.
According to human rights activists, on January 7, 2024, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Military. He was accused of going out on the street in Zhlobin on August 9, 2020 to protest against the rigged elections.
The place of serving the arrest, which was appointed by the judge, is the guardhouse of the military commandant's office.
Released upon expiration of sentence.
3 months of arrest.
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