According to the state prosecution , in June 2021, Dmitry Gorbunov wrote a comment on the Internet under a photograph of Lida police officer Anton Anatolyevich Kotilo with the word “asshole”.
Opposition Telegram channels wrote about Kotilo that he participated in the arrest of activist Vitold Ashurka (the activist later died in prison).
The public insult to Lukashenko, according to the prosecution, also occurred on the Internet in August 2022.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 17.03.2023:
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Citizen of the Russian Federation. According to the indictment , in August 2022, Shakirov intentionally posted a comment containing signs of verbal aggression in a duly recognized extremist Telegram group (chat) in order to obstruct the lawful activities of an employee of the internal affairs bodies and out of revenge for the performance of official duties by the head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, N. N. Karpenkov.
On June 9, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
It is known that on December 10, 2022, Dmitry, while intoxicated, tore the national flag from the building of the Tsevli railway station and broke the pole. This was recorded by CCTV cameras.
The man was detained. Dmitry admitted his guilt.
The hearing of the appeal is scheduled for April 21, 2023 in the Brest Regional Court.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
The man was accused of leaving a comment in Belarusian in the corporate chat of one of the social networks of a large freight transportation company, in which he explained that: “our flag is white-red-white”; and called today’s: “sunrise over a swamp.”
Pavel wrote the comment while he was in Western Europe on a flight after which he returned to Belarus.
Pavel Dubov from Minsk, married, has a child under three. The man filed an appeal against the sentence to the regional court.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 16.03.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
32 year old Maxim was detained in early February 2023 after returning to Belarus from abroad. He is charged with «people's» art. 342 of the Criminal Code.
In 2020, Maxim worked as a firefighter and warned residents when the Ministry of Emergency Situations went to remove flags.
Dmitry was found guilty of failing to report a well-known person who committed a particularly serious crime and the location of such a person in the case of blowing up a police car at the Central police Department building in Minsk.
The man has a higher education and works as a driver in a private company. He has six children, three of whom are minors. One of them is two years old.
Dmitry was accused of leaving offensive comments in a Telegram chat in January 2022 regarding the Minsk prosecutor, the captain of the Minsk traffic police, the captain of the Bobruisk OMON police, the judge of the Leninsky District Court of Grodno, a police major, the deputy head of law enforcement and prevention of the Frunzensky District Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk, and OMON police sergeants of the Mogilev Regional Department of Internal Affairs.
He is expectedto be released on March 14, 2025.
Trial outcome 02.03.2023
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
On January 30, 2023, 18 year old Maxim was sentenced to 1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime. He was found guilty under part 1 of Article 130, Article 369 and Article 391 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
At the time of detention on May 10, 2022, the guy was a juvenile.
Olga was convicted for a Facebook post made back in 2020.
According to the investigation, by posting on her page, the woman demonstrated “a desire to present the authority of the head of state in a humiliated state in the eyes of the general public, choosing a method of disseminating false information and insults against the head of the country, designed to be familiar to a wide circle of people.”
She is expected to be released in early spring 2025.
05.07.2023
15 июня поставлена на учёт как лицо склонное к экстремизму
Trial outcome 24.02.2023
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 03.04.2023
unknown.
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