According to the indictment, Vadim Kalinin in February 2022, using his Xiaomi Redmi 6A mobile phone, left an offensive comment on his address on the Instagram under the publication of the minsk_news account with the image of Alexander Lukashenko.
At the hearing, the man admitted his guilt in full.
In addition to imprisonment, Vadim will be subjected to compulsory security measures and treatment for chronic alcoholism.
Trial outcome 05.12.2022:
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Since the end of October 2022, the man was held in custody, a month later he was transferred to house arrest. After the verdict of the district court, they were taken into custody again.
A criminal case was opened because of the incident with the national flag of the Republic of Belarus.
According to the prosecution, one day a company of 5 people gathered on the porch of the village council in Obrovo (Ivatsevichi district), among those gathered was Alexey. The guys were drinking and suddenly Alexey decided to climb up the drainpipe and remove the national flag. At the same time, the man broke the pipe, and put the flag on the porch. A girl from the same company raised a flag and put it against the wall.
Representatives of the prosecution qualified this story as an outrage against the national flag of the Republic of Belarus.
In the fall of 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 13.12.2022:
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Alexander was arrested in August 2022 on charges of "damaging the wall of a store in the city of Dokshitsy with red wax crayon." He wrote "3%" on the wall and was subsequently convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
It is known that shortly before his arrest, Alexander actively criticized retail outlets in Dokshitsy for selling expired products and violating sanitary standards.
He was released in December 2023, having served his full sentence.
Pavel Omelyanov was accused of reposting a publication with an image of Lukashenko on the Telegram channel on December 27, 2020, under which he left offensive comments.
The man was also accused of systematically stealing bicycles stored in apartment buildings at night from June 20, 2021 to July 12, 2022. The Bobruisk resident stole a total of 27 bicycles worth 11,000 rubles.
The man repented of his actions and fully admitted his guilt.
On May 18, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to the materials of the court case, on August 30, 2021, Alexey left several offensive comments in one of the Telegram chats and, as the examination showed, thereby publicly insulted Lukashenko, deliberately humiliated his honor and dignity in an indecent form.
The judge sentenced Alexey to restriction of freedom without referral to a correctional facility for a period of 3 years. However, the prosecutor appealed the verdict. On February 9, 2023, the Judicial Board of the Mogilev Regional Court imposed a new punishment - imprisonment.
Trial outcome 02.11.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Works as a foreman at the elevator at JSC "Lidakhleboprodukt". On the day of the arrest, Igor was called to the checkpoint, first two "employees", then a bus flew up, from which OMON in uniform jumped out. Detained for participating in protests in 2020.
On December 22, 2022, the Court of Appeal took place.
Trial outcome 03.11.2022
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Citizen of the Russian Federation. Elena has two minor daughters (born in 2014 and 2015).
Before the trial, she was heldin pretrial detention for 8months .
In March 2023, it became known about Elena's serious condition in IK-4, where she was serving her sentence. "For example, when Elena was once in a very serious condition, she was not given medical care, although everything was extremely bad. She had a temperature of almost 40, she was delirious, then she started having problems with her joints, an abscess. But then she was not even assigned to the medical unit, the prisoners themselves took her there,"said one of the former prisoners.
She was releasedon October 29, 2024,having served her entiresentence.
Head of the department of the Brest Regional Narcological dispensary.
According to law enforcement officials, the man left offensive comments about Lukashenko and Chairman of the Brest City Executive Committee Alexander Rogachuk.
Owner of a dog hotel in Grodno and has a higher education.
Pavel was accused of “posting publications in the form of images with text messages that are unacceptable for use from the point of view of modern culture” on the social network VKontakte, which the court considered as degrading the honor and dignity of Lukashenko.
11.11.2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 22.12.2022
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Andrei was accused of using his mobile phone on the Odnoklassniki social network to leave a publication with an image and text that “humiliates the honor and dignity of an individual, offensive information and a negative assessment” of Lukashenko. Andrey’s publications on the page were noticed by a police officer while monitoring social networks.
Andrey has a dependent minor child.
At the end of November 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 14.12.2022:
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
A resident of the capital , Zakhar Pavlovich Kostko, is a citizen of Russia. He, along with Stanislav Akalovich, was accused of desecration of state symbols ( Article 370 of the Criminal Code ). In addition, Akalovich was found guilty of malicious hooliganism under Part 1 of Article 339.
That day, Alexander and a friend went to visit and got tipsy. We went out into the street and talked about political topics. Then a woman approached, made a remark and sharply demanded to shut up.
As it turned out later, this second woman called the police with a message that “there is a company of 8 people in the yard, they are scolding the authorities, calling Lukashenko a traitor and a fascist.” After 23 minutes, police appeared in the yard and took Trush and his friend to the police station.
On January 13, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 24.11.2022:
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
In the video published in the telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a 36 year old man says that he was detained for writing in vk.com an offensive message about a law enforcement officer in 2021.
Trial outcome 11.11.2022
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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