Trial outcome 01.02.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 23.04.2024: the sentence was upheld.
According to the prosecution , while in Germany, the man published several comments in a telegram chat on August 28, September 7 and September 27, 2021, “containing an obscene form of speech” addressed to the heads of police departments.
Later, Dmitry Polyakov returned to his homeland and was detained. He admitted his guilt. On January 29, the court found him guilty and sentenced him to a year and a half in a general regime colony. He was also charged a fine of 100 basic units (4,000 rubles) and ordered to pay the three “victims” a total of 5,500 rubles.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Artem was detained at the end of December 2023. According to preliminary data, the man was initially detained on an administrative matter. Then a search was carried out at his home, equipment was confiscated, and Artyom Antonov himself was charged with “insulting Alexander Lukashenko” (Article 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). The details of the case are unknown.
Artem is the son of Sergei Antonov, a Belarusian journalist. Sergei is a correspondent for the Belarusian newspaper “Private Detective”. Author of a number of works within the Metro 2033 Universe. In early December, Sergei was summoned by the KGB chief for Bykhov, and he presented two documents from the Mogilev KGB, which stated the writer’s alleged involvement in a crime - working for the mogilev portal. media. After this, Sergei was forced to emigrate.
On June 20, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Pavel Kuntsevich is 39 years old. He is a Minsk resident, he studied at the Minsk State Institute of Ecology named after Sakharov as a psychologist. He worked at the Chervensky market, where he had his own retail outlet, and recently he made greenhouses for money.
Judging by social networks, he was detained in the fall of 2023. He was accused under Part 3 of Art. 361 of the Criminal Code of Belarus - “calls for sanctions or other actions aimed at harming the national security of Belarus.” Under the article, he faced up to 12 years in prison.
Pavel has a large family - a wife and four children.
4 years imprisonment in a colony
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Galina Krasnyanskaya is 67 years old. She comes from Bobruisk, probably from the family of a military serviceman; on social networks it is indicated that she was born in the “military town of Kiselevichy”. Once there was a large military garrison there and the school was created just for military children. After school she went to Minsk to study as a chemist at the Belarusian Technological Institute (now BSTU). But after that, Galina worked in military units, according to her social networks. For example, from 1981 to 1986 in unit No. 48819, based in the pro-Soviet part of Germany-GDR.
She probably subsequently moved to Sweden. She must also have Swedish citizenship.
It is unknown when the woman returned to Belarus, but not earlier than the spring of 2023. The date of detention is also unknown. The article under which Galina is accused most often means a donation to Belarusian volunteers or to help Ukraine.
Trial outcome 12.01.2024: 5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 12.04.2024: the sentence was upheld.
In the “repentance video,” the man says that he was detained for participating in a rally after the elections and going out onto the roadway.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Cook, resident of Novobelitsa.
There are quite a lot of posts and messages about Belarusian security forces and government officials on Igor’s social networks. He was also among the 500 subscribers in 2019 to an appeal to then-Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, which concerned the reburial of the remains of the rebels of 1863-1864 hanged by the tsarist authorities.
It is unknown what punishment the man was given. But it is associated with imprisonment.
On April 26, 2024, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony under general regime
A former “Afghan” and a person with a principled civic position, and his wife Oksana Lisitsa is the director of the Vysochanskaya Basic School and a deputy of the district council of the 28th convocation. Vladimir Lisitsa was born in Ukraine and instead of an avatar on his Odnoklassniki page there is a Ukrainian flag. The contents of this page, which has now been mostly deleted, were studied by the Liozny District Prosecutor's Office, and it decided that “information products on the personal page “Vladimir Lisitsa” on the social network “Odnoklassniki” contains signs of activities aimed at facilitating extremist activities, training or other preparation to participate in such activities.” According to the investigation , Vladimir Lisitsa left comments about several other well-known persons in Belarus: “publicly obscene comments were made to the military commissar of the Gomel region A.V. Krivonosov, deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus A.S. Gaidukevich, chairman of the Glubokoe district executive committee A . N. Shubsky and A. G. Lukashenko."According to the court verdict, Mr. Lisitsa must serve three years in a correctional colony under general regime conditions, and also pay a fine of 7,400 rubles and compensation for moral school to two plaintiffs - the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus A. The Swede and the deputy of the Novopolotsk City Council of Deputies I. Medvedsky - 3,000 rubles each.
3 years of imprisonment in a correctional colony under general regime conditions
Has a higher legal education (BSU). Worked at the consulting company Parada+partners.
3 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
Trial outcome 05.03.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 26.04.2024: the sentence was upheld.
In Mogilev, Sobolevsky is known as one of the freelancers who collaborated with city online publications until 2020. Ales was sentenced twice for an administrative violation for a day, after which he was not released.
Trial outcome 31.07.2024: 4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.09.2024: unknown.
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