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According to the prosecution , on February 13, 2023, Igor Svirida, while in the Compulsory Enforcement Department (COI), “... provided a department employee with a handwritten explanation of the reasons for non-payment of fines imposed by the court for committing various administrative offenses, in which he deliberately and publicly wrote the text, in the content of which, in an offensive form, he expressed a negative assessment of the president’s personality, presented in the form of an obscene form of speech expression...”
On the same day, when a squad of employees of the Security Department was called to the enforcement department to detain him, he again publicly insulted A.G. Lukashenko. The investigation claims that Igor Svirida was allegedly intoxicated in the premises of the OPI.
During the court hearing, he partially admitted his guilt.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 upon expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained on January 9, 2023 as part of a criminal case opened in Brest based on the events of September 13, 2020, when during a protest, people danced in a circle on the roadway (the so-called “round dance case”).
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Orthodox Christian, Bachelor of Theology.
Security forces came to his workplace and a search was conducted at his place of residence.
In early November 2024, he was released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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The famous Orthodox Gomel resident Alexander Tarasenko, former hieromonk of the Gomel St. Nicholas Monastery.
In a pro-government video, Tarasenko “admits” that he allegedly posted “an offensive post addressed to the president” on his Facebook page.
Tarasenko works as a long-distance truck driver.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the winter of 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Yuri is 58 years old.
The prosecutor asked for 1.5 years of imprisonment.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Yaroslav Kazakevich, a 27 year old resident of Orsha, accused of facilitating extremist activities.
According to the case materials, on December 8, 2022, the accused made a video file using a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone at the railway station «Orsha-Tsentralnaya», on which an echelon with Russian military equipment was recorded. Then Kazakevich, being in the carriage of a train of regional lines, distributed through the Internet the named video file in the Telegram channel, the information products of which had previously been recognized by the court as extremist materials.
On December 9, 2022, Yaroslav was detained by police officers and arrested by the Orsha district court for 15 days for the production and distribution of extremist materials. He was never released again.
On June 6, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.
According to the telegram channel supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, Alexander was detained for transferring the data of employees of the Slonim district police Department to the bot of the «Black Book of Belarus», for calling for strikes and for participating in unauthorized mass actions in 2020.
Released for health reasons on bail of 100 basic units.
| 16.08.2023 | Областной суд оставил решение районного суда в силе. |
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Vyacheslav was convicted for insulting comments towards Lukashenko and police officers on Facebook.
It became known about the verdict from a video on State TV. In it, Prosecutor Pavel Kurpenich said that Vyacheslav was held in custody before the trial, and during the trial he fully admitted guilt.
Vyacheslav Kobrin is 58 years old. The man is married, enjoys fishing.
According to the materials of the prosecution , Vadim Myakinnik, near the administrative building of one of the secondary schools in Minsk, saw a red-green flag on a metal bracket on the wall at the main entrance. Grabbing the flag with his hand, he tore it off the bracket, after which, holding in his right hand the staff with the cloth displaced on it, he disappeared and headed in an unknown direction, thereby publicly humiliating the state symbol. These actions were recorded by a surveillance camera.
The educational institution suffered damage in the amount of 25 rubles 20 kopecks.
2 months 1 day imprisonment in a penal colony under strict regime conditions.
Aleksandr Osipovich is now 48 years old. He is a product of the Minsk Dynamo youth system. At the adult level, Osipovich first played for the Dynamo farm team in D2, from where he was called up to the youth team (he eventually played 15 matches there). He made his debut for the main team of the "white-blues" in mid-1997 - he began to appear regularly in the lineup, and the team won the championship title. Later in his career, he played for Lithuanian "Zalgiris", Polish "Zagłębie", as well as other clubs in Belarus and neighboring countries. After finishing his career, Osipovich became a football agent and also worked as a "football tutor".
At the end of 2022, Alexander was detained by "security forces" in Minsk. Later, human rights activists managed to find out that on January 9, 2023, Osipovich was "tried" under the article under which they punished for "insulting" Alexander Lukashenko (now they have added his family members there). The "sentence" was passed by Oleg Kalyada, who has more than one "political" case under his belt.
According to human rights activists, he has already been released.
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A member of the Belarusian free software community and one of the creators of the scientific and educational samizdat "Pamylka," Yuri Adamov studied theoretical physics at BSU, received his PhD in the UK, and conducted research in American laboratories and universities.
According to provincial media, he was arrested for making 24 "donations" to the extremist groups "BySol" and "ByHelp" totaling $1,590. A criminal case has now been opened.
In November 2027, he was released , having fully served his sentence.
According to the case materials , Olga Ivanchenko posted on her Odnoklassniki page in the public domain “text with an image containing deliberately false fabrications that disgrace Alexander Lukashenko, humiliate his honor and dignity, and are aimed at undermining his authority and creating a negative image.”
In addition, the woman posted “comments with a negative assessment of him, containing obscene language” under the post with an image of Alexander Lukashenko.
Olga has an autism spectrum disorder . After her arrest, she was held for about a month at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health in Novinki.
On 20.06.2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the fall of 2024.
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Alexander was arrested in September 2022 and convicted for participating in protests and blocking roads on August 9 and October 25, 2020 in Minsk.
Released on May 8, 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.