3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
Worked as a doctor. Convicted for participating in peaceful protests. The trial took place on 06/10/2022. Minsktrans filed a claim for 113,000 rubles.
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
She was on bail before the trial.
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
unknown years of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility
A programmer who was detained in December 2021 for comments on networks.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Pavel was found guilty of leaving a comment in the telegram chats "Punishers" and "Partizans" on November 8, 2020 in the direction of an employee of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, Lieutenant Colonel Bartynsky. The comment contained a non-normative form of expression. Also on November 25, 2020, in the Punishers telegram chat, he left an insulting comment in the direction of Alexander Matskevich, commander of the first platoon of the operational company of the OMON ATS of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee.
Pavel Makarenko pleaded guilty. He said that he did not exactly remember those events, since a lot of time had passed. However, he said he allegedly left the comments "out of emotion".
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral.
Cleaner of the streets of one of the KUP. Their joint photo was posted on Odnoklassniki with the caption: “THIS IS WE used a chokehold against civilians in Pruzhany. Left: juvenile inspector Tarasevich. Right: district police inspector Kolyada. Elena commented on this post. For which she was convicted.
1 year of restriction of liberty without a referral
Novikov was at home before the trial. As Flagstaff noted , on June 26, 2022, Alexander left a post on his Facebook page: “Tomorrow they may put you on bunks. Sometimes there’s no time for laws, but you have to answer.” The trial took place behind closed doors. Novikov was accused of posting articles on his website that “had the goal of achieving a revision of world history, the results of the war, and discrediting the Victory,” the publication clarifies.
Fellow writers noted that during Soviet times, Novikov served in the KGB and was dismissed with the rank of major. In the 2000s, Novikov started a blog called “literary critic,” in which he covered the country’s literary life. This blog was private, but was perceived as affiliated with the Writers' Union due to the author's proximity to the organization's leadership. Novikov himself did not write any works, but was actively involved in criticism. In his texts, Novikov persistently treated Belarusian-speaking authors. On the blog litkritika.blogspot.com, he repeatedly spoke negatively about the work of Nikolai Cherginets, a former military man and member of the National Assembly of Belarus.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
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The first time Alexander was convicted for a comment on social networks. A new case was opened for a November 2020 comment on the Punishers of Belarus telegram channel under a post about police ensign of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Brest Diana Khalabuda. The man pleaded not guilty at trial.
First sentence: 2 years of restriction of liberty without referral.
Second sentence: 2.5 years of restriction of liberty without referral.
Convicted for participating in protests.
On April 18, 2023, in the court of Mozyr and Mozyr district, a process was held to replace Dmitry Ivanov’s sentence with a more severe one. He was placed in the Mozyr temporary detention center. The judge decided to transfer the political prisoner to a colony for a period of 8 months and 11 days .
According to human rights activists, he will be released in December 2023.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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