unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
On December 8, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
1.5 years imprisonment in a colony
A resident of Loyivshchyna was detained at the end of August 2023 for insulting police officers while filming a video and then posting the video with insults on the Internet.
After the verdict, she was released in the courtroom due to the recalculation of the time spent in the pre-trial detention center.
6 months imprisonment in a colony.
Maxim is currently undergoing compulsory military service in a military unit in Borisov.
According to the prosecution , Maxim, “acting jointly and in concert in a group of people from approximately 21:00 on August 9 to 1:30 on August 10, 2020, “stood on the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, clapped his hands, loudly shouted, whistled, shouted various slogans, while refusing to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”
In Zhlobin, according to the investigation, on the day of the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus on August 9, 2020, at about 10 p.m., an aggressive crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered in the area of the city square.
3 months of arrest in a guardhouse
According to the prosecution , Artur Panchenko, “acting jointly and in concert in a group of people from approximately 21:00 on August 9 to 1:30 on August 10, 2020, “stood on the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, clapped his hands, shouted loudly, whistled, shouted various slogans, while refusing to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”
In Zhlobin, according to the investigation, on the day of the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus on August 9, 2020, at about 10 p.m., an aggressive crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered in the area of the city square.
Arthur served under contract in a military unit as a senior fire rescuer of the military fire protection and rescue team in Zhlobin.
3 months of arrest in a guardhouse
According to the prosecution, after viewing a photograph posted in the public domain on Odnoklassniki with fixed text, where the honor and dignity of Lukashenko’s personality was humiliated in an indecent form and he was accused of committing a particularly serious crime (murder), Kozlovskaya posted the photograph on her page on the same social network, open for free viewing and copying to an unlimited circle of readers.
In court, Olga said that she sent a letter to Alexander Lukashenko, in which she apologized to him.
According to human rights activists, she was released in December 2023 upon expiration of her sentence.
6 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Yegor was accused of tearing down the flag from the Euroopt store on the night of July 2-3. As the guy explained, he was drunk, walking with friends. He saw the flag, jumped up, grabbed a tree. The flagpole suddenly broke, its remnants were left hanging on the wall. He and his friends left the scene. On July 3, 2023, Yegor was detained by the police and placed in pre-trial detention. At the trial, the prosecutor announced the amount of "damage" from Zhukov's actions: 21 rubles.
3 months of arrest
27-year-old Ruslan tore off the state flag from one of the stores in Pruzhany, after which he threw it on the ground. This was qualified as "desecration of state symbols."
3 months of arrest
The man was accused of writing a telegram comment about a certain Minister of Education of the Republic of Belarus on June 23, 2022. In the commentary, the examination found a “negative assessment” of the minister, expressed “in a non-standard form.”
10/06/2023 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 months of arrest
According to the prosecution , Andrei Kholupko, using a mobile phone on the Odnoklassniki social network, in 2020, 2021 and 2023, put four likes on caricatured images of Alexander Lukashenko, in which he was shown as a clown, a monkey, and also together with Vladimir Putin in the pit, thereby publicly, in the public domain, insulted the president.
At the trial, Kholupko indicated that by liking he did not think that this was an insult, he added that no one paid him money for this and he acted impulsively.
On February 24, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Sergei is 37 years old. Has a minor daughter. Presumably he was detained on 06/08/2023.
According to the indictment , Sergei Korsak on his page on the Odnoklassniki social network several times posted an image with text “defaming the honor and dignity” of Lukashenko.
On October 20, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, on March 22, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was convicted for a comment containing the word: crap and reposting a video from the Dozhd TV channel, where Dmitry Shchigelsky and the channel’s presenter discussed the diagnosis of “mosaic psychopathy” in A.G. Lukashenko.
On September 26, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
35-year-old Mikhail was accused of writing a public insult about Valentin Pashkevich on August 9, 2021 at 23:19 in the telegram chat “Real Belarus Chat”, namely using the word “moron.”
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year in prison
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Former executive director of Belarusbank. He was detained along with his wife for participating in protests in 2020.
In the fall of 2017, Anatoly Bogovik was sentenced to eight years in prison allegedly for corruption, but a few years later he was released on pardon.
On 20 October 2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
On July 29, 2024, Anatoly had a trial in Volkovysk to establish preventive supervision .
According to human rights activists , he will be released at the end of the summer of 2024 , having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
He is expected to be released at the end of summer 2024 .
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