According to the prosecution, on October 22, 2020, a 52-year-old native of Uzbekistan publicly insulted the head and employees of the Polotsk police department Alexander Garus , Vitaly Sheshukov and Denis Karasev. Among the "victims" are the head of the law enforcement department of the public security prevention department, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Karasev , as well as the deputy head of the Polotsk ITT, Major Vitaly Sheshukov , who were "threatened" by the woman.
Denis Botyan was detained on August 5, 2021 and placed in a temporary detention center for three days. Subsequently, he was released on personal bail. Based on the materials of the investigation, voiced in court on October 25, Denis Botyan published a message on the Internet on September 8, 2020: “Urgent, drivers on Masherov! Block the traffic, do not let the security forces gather, help the protesters!”.
Citizen of Russia, resident of Cheboksary. Detained on October 1, 2021. He was accused of terrorism (Article 289 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus), then the article was changed. He is in custody. There are no relatives in Belarus. Accused of setting fire to the car of the head of the forensic examination committee, Alexei Volkov.
In the fall of 2023, he was extradited to Russia due to his consent to participate in the fight on the side of Russia.
10 years in prison under enhanced regime
He was taken into custody in connection with charges under Part 3 of Article 371 of the Criminal Code for organizing illegal border crossings by citizens fleeing arbitrary politically motivated persecution by the authorities of Belarus, which could lead to grave consequences for them - torture, cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment and illegal deprivation of liberty. Despite the fact that he was tried for committing an act by a group of people, only Evgeniy was in the dock. According to the charges, he brought people to the border zone of Lithuania.
Released in the summer of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
4.5 years in prison in a penal colony
According to the indictment, Dmitry Sonchik insulted and threatened the lives of four people in comments on one of the Telegram channels during 2020-2021. The victims were A. Perekhvatko from the Ivatsevichi District Department of Internal Affairs, the head of the Nesvizh District Department of Internal Affairs A. Grinkevich, senior lieutenant of the Nesvizh District Department of Internal Affairs R. Pranevich and an employee of the GUBOPiK A. Aleksa.
In the last word, the only thing that Sonchik said was congratulating his sister and mother, who were in the courtroom, on the upcoming Mother's Day. All the time he was behind bars in handcuffs.
On March 23, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years in prison .
He was detained on May 30, 2021: he was accused of planting a man who reached for a red-green flag in order to rip it off the Urech House of Culture and Creativity on May 29, 2021. After the arrest, the man spent three days in the pre-trial detention center of the Lyubansky District Department of Internal Affairs, after which he was released pending trial.
1 year of restriction of freedom with referral to open institutions.
On September 30, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Technician-programmer from Sennitsa. It is known from the materials of the prosecution that Garmazinsky, using the Internet and a mobile phone in the telegram channel “My Country Belarus”, on November 18, 2020 and January 18, and also on March 23, 2021, posted several offensive messages that contained negative assessments of the first person of the state . One of them concerned the situation with the Ice Hockey World Championship. He was taken into custody in the courtroom.
06/05/2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
1.5 years of "home chemistry".
According to the investigation, on December 18, 2020, Tatyana put "an insulting inscription on the door of the mailbox of the judge of the Brest Regional Court Senko Ruslana Albertovna, counting on its repeated reading and perception." The defendant pleaded not guilty.
2, 5 years of "home chemistry".
was detained along with the guys on November 1 at the March against terror in Minsk.
Volunteer of the Gomel branch of the Human Rights Center "Vesna".
She was detained late in the evening on January 18 and placed in a temporary detention center. Her house was also searched. Previously, Maria Tarasenko actively advocated the abolition of the so-called decree on "parasites" and sued local officials of the Gomel region, who forbade protests against the decree. She was released three days later on bail.
chief accountant of IT-company PandaDoc.
She was detained on September 2, 2020 on the same day in the Minsk office of PandaDoc, as well as in the private apartments of some of its employees, searches were carried out by employees of the Financial Investigation Department of the State Control Committee.
The founder of PandaDoc, Nikita Mikado, after the events of August 6-11, launched the Protect Belarus initiative to help law enforcement officers who lost their jobs due to their refusal to follow criminal orders. During this time, the initiative has received more than 500 applications for such assistance, and some of these stories have received wide publicity. She was released from custody on October 13, the preventive measure was changed to a written undertaking not to leave.
According to the accusation brought against Yulia Bodak, on 10/23/2020, she, together with other citizens, made a scarecrow, “presenting him to the public as the President of the Republic of Belarus, attaching to it two sheets of paper, on which an unidentified person made the inscription “stole the votes” and” condemned the innocent ”, hung a scarecrow on a tree on a plot of land along the Varshavskoe highway, thereby exposing the scarecrow for inspection by an indefinite circle of people."
Arrested November 15, 2020. After the elections, she took part in protests. She was arrested 4 times. The last time - at a rally on the "Square of Changes", after which a criminal case was opened against her.
Convicted of insulting a government official during execution.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024.
| 28.12.2021 | On December 24, 2021, the court of appeal upheld the sentence of 2 years of chemistry with a referral to the IUOT |
| 25.12.2021 | 24.12.2021 The regional court upheld the appeal |
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.
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