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2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Suspended for social media comments. Ekaterina has 4 children, one of them is a minor, the eldest daughter has a disability of the 2nd group.
Trial outcome 07.09.2023: 4 years of imprisonment under general regime conditions.
Appeal 24.11.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Vice-rector for educational and scientific-methodological work of the State Institute of Culture and Culture "GAZ-INSTITUTE". Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor.
Alexander was taken into custody on charges of donating to initiatives that are recognized as extremist.
On September 15, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force
Trial outcome 20.06.2023: 3 years of imprisonment under general regime conditions.
Appeal 15.09.2023: the sentence was upheld.
According to journalists, the accusation is related to the fact that the Gomel resident transferred money to help Ukraine through the BYSOL fund. After the full-scale Russian invasion, he spoke out against the war on social networks and published reports on humanitarian assistance to residents of the Chernihiv region, they note.
Yuri Tashkinov is a Gomel entrepreneur, a resident of the city technopark. In 2018, he developed a mobile application for searching for providers of various services.
On October 27, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
3 years in prison
Svetlana was convicted for her comments and participation in protests.
Released on July 20, 2024, after being pardoned.
2.5 years in prison
According to the case materials , in February 2022, she posted a comment that "insulted and humiliated the honor and dignity" of Podvoisky, Melnik, and Kozlov and "was aimed at undermining the authority of government officials." After the publication of a video on the CyberSlivy Telegram channel with a leaked telephone conversation between Podvoisky, Melnik, and Kozlov from September 2020, which became evidence that the police were telling judges what decisions to make for participants in peaceful protests. More than two dozen people left comments under it, including Ekaterina Lev. Ekaterina was detained a year later - on February 1, 2023.
Released on August 20, 2024, after being pardoned.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Trial outcome 02.06.2023: 3 years of imprisonment under general regime conditions.
The ONT TV channel showed a “repentance” video with Victoria. A criminal case was opened against her and she was placed in custody. In the story, she is accused of evading taxes, subscribing to “extremist” channels, leaking data from security forces, participating in the Peramoga plan, and financing extremist activities. The court found Victoria guilty of providing funds to knowingly support the activities of an extremist group, deliberately illegally collecting and providing information about the private life and personal data of another person without his consent.
Together with Victoria, her husband Dmitry was detained, who served 30 days of administrative arrest and was released.
Dmitry is the director of the Gomel Motor Repair Plant, the vocalist of the ethno-group “Ban-Graviyba”, and Victoria is an entrepreneur. They are also famous dancers.
3 years 3 months imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Dmitry Bogush worked in the banking sector for 18 years, was Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of JSC «Technobank». Subsequently, he went into business — built wind farms at two sites in the Grodno region.
In December 2022, 50-year—old Bogush was detained for an article about inciting discord - he allegedly wrote comments on social networks threatening Lukashenko and law enforcement officers.
According to Bogush, he was prompted to speak publicly on social networks by photos of beaten young people detained at protests after the 2020 elections.
The businessman said that he subsequently deleted his posts, but refused to leave Belarus, although his friends told him about it.
3.5 years imprisonment in a colony
IT specialist.
Ruslan is charged with financing extremist activities.
According to his Linkedin profile, Ruslan has been working for Netcracker for the last 6 years.
Previously, for some time he was a volunteer for the Protection of Birds of the Fatherland.
On June 23, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
3 years in prison in a penal colony.
According to the case file, Tamara Karavai in December 2022 via a messenger on a social network ok.ru posted slanderous information about Alexander Lukashenko.
At the hearing, Karavai fully admitted her guilt, but refused to testify.
It is known that Tamara Karavai has a dependent juvenile child.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
And the court also decided to apply compulsory safety measures and treatment for chronic alcoholism to the woman at the place of serving her sentence.
Dmitry was detained by employees of the State Security Committee on March 21, 2023.
He was accused of donating to organizations supporting Belarusians. Dmitry is accused of about 10 episodes.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Initially, Vladislav was detained in the administrative case 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for 15 days, during which he was charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus . A photo from marches in Minsk was found on his phone.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Convicted of participating in protest actions on August 10 and 16, 2020.
In addition, in July 2021, the accused allegedly assisted an extremist formation when he sent messages to the chatbot of one of the Telegram channels recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus with unreliable data regarding one of the company's managers, as well as data about his private life.
At the hearing, the accused admitted his guilt in part. At the same time, he pointed out that he had no intention of promoting extremist formation.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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