According to the accused, Yevgeny Shedikov was at home on January 30, 2021, intended to insult Lukashenka and wanted to present him in a humiliating position in the eyes of the general public, while intoxicated he called the police at number 102. The call was answered by the dispatcher, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ovsienko, the accused told her: “ And I don’t want to listen to your <inaudible>, this fucker, this Lukashenko.” Shedikov himself is a 70-year-old pensioner, has a 3rd disability group, suffered a stroke twice, after which he could not talk, and has other diseases.
According to the indictment, on March 20, 2021, Maksim Khomich, with the intention of publicly insulting government official Igor Monakhov, left a comment under a message and a photo of an OMON officer in the Punishers of Belarus telegram channel with the word “G***o”.
According to the investigation, he publicly insulted a representative of the authorities - the deputy head - the head of the public security police of the Partizansky District Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Minsk Olshevsky A.F. , by posting a message of offensive content - "petushara" in the "telegram" messenger on the "punishers of Belarus" channel.
Victoria was found guilty of "desecration of state symbols." According to investigators, she altered the image of the national emblem and used it as the logo for her Telegram and YouTube channels, as well as in published videos, which, according to investigators, constituted "an act of blasphemy and an attempt to draw attention to her channel."
Andrei was found guilty in July 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social network Odnoklassniki under a post about police captain Sergei Shramov and about a district police inspector, police captain Alexander Shlupakov.
The Odnoklassniki post was dedicated to how police officers confiscated red-and-white balloons hanging in a local resident's home during a search in the city of Dubrovno, after which he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest.
Trial outcome 12.07.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Sergei was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a judge for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding M. Yu. Filatov, a judge of the Lida District Court of the Grodno Region. The comment, according to the prosecution, was offensive and degrading to the honor and dignity of the judge.
Trial outcome date unknown
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Denis was found guilty in June 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left about Igor Volnich, a traffic police officer at the Gantsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs. Volnich, who had used a knee chokehold on a detained participant during the dispersal of a solidarity chain, was holding him in a chokehold.
Trial outcome 25.06.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Marina was found guilty in June 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social media site Odnoklassniki addressed to Yuri Chernyshkov, an operative of the Drogichin District Police Department. The comment was posted under a post alleging that Chernyshkov had punched and kicked a girl on a square in Drogichin on August 10, 2020, and then "handed her over" to riot police.
Trial outcome 24.06.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Natalia was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding the leadership of the Dubrovensky District Department of Internal Affairs.
Vitaly was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social network Odnoklassniki regarding Svetlogorsk District Police Department traffic police inspector, Major A.V. Bagraenko. According to the prosecution, the comment contained a negative assessment of the "victim."
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Evgeny was found guilty of gross violation of public order and violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer for participating in a protest that took place in Zhlobin from August 10 to 11, 2020. Evgeny was a minor at the time of his participation.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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