Aleksey Muravitsky was detained by GUBOPiK on July 27. His actions were qualified as participation in actions grossly violating public order (part 1 of article 342 of the Criminal Code). On election day, August 9, OMON officers detained Muravitsky at the polling station and beat him up at Akrestsin Street. On August 16, he went to the March and demonstrated hematomas received during the beatings. The protesters wrote on his back “You won’t kill everyone” – the moment of the performance near the KGB was photographed. Muravitsky also took part in the March on October 25 - he climbed onto the roof of his car with a BCHB flag and shouted “Long Live Belarus”. The man was detained on July 27 and a "repentant video" was recorded with him.
On May 27, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1 year in prison under general regime conditions
Vitaly Kovalenko explained in court that he was at home with his family in the morning when he heard his wife's cry from the corridor: “Vitaly, help!”. The accused ran out, saw that the son was in the corridor in front of the door, crying and shouting: “Daddy!”, And the wife was in the vestibule and shouting that it was necessary to close the front door. Vitaly saw at least four men in tracksuits and masks, was in a state of shock from what was happening and thought that bandits or alcoholics were breaking into his apartment: the policemen had no identification marks. Someone held the door by the handle, for some time it was pulled between Vitaly and the unknown, until the accused heard a cry: “Hand! Fingers!". Then Kovalenko let go of the door, after which it closed easily. Prior to this outcry, the accused heard only swearing from behind the door from those who broke into his apartment, no one introduced themselves and did not say that they were from the police. Vitaly did not see his hands and fingers, he did not feel that he could break them with the door, but he admitted that this could have happened.
Kovalenko noted that if he knew right away that they were policemen, then this situation would not have happened at all. He never had problems with the police, there was no reason to be afraid of employees.
As a result, the judge found Vitaly Kovalenko guilty and punished him with three years of “chemistry”, and also decided to recover from him 3,000 rubles in compensation in favor of the victim.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to open institutions
A teacher of the English language at gymnasium No. 4 in Baranovichi. Convicted for commenting on a photo of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadim Yakimchik in the telegram channel "Punishers of Belarus": "..and with this schmuck I walked in my youth ..." Maria is on maternity leave to care for a child.
2 years of "home chemistry"
Director of web design studio "Ikvadrat" in Grodno. After being beaten by security forces on August 10, 2020, he ended up in a tram station. He was detained on August 25, 2021, a search was conducted in the office of his studio. On September 8, 2021, it became known that Gleb was charged under Article 342. UK RB. Gleb has 2 minor children.
At the end of June 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
2 years of restriction of freedom with referral to open institutions.
On 05/05/2023, a trial was held to tighten the regime, Gleb was replaced by restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a colony. On June 13, 2023, the Court of Appeal will take place.
Under Article 342 of the Criminal Code, Kirill Palchevsky was found guilty of participating in actions that grossly violated public order on September 13, 2020, from 1:59 p.m. to 7:20 p.m. According to the indictment, he acted out of selfish motives, as well as by prior conspiracy with a group of people: he shouted slogans, loudly clapped his hands, moved in a chain, and violated the right of decent citizens to a peaceful life. The text of the indictment listed all the streets, stores, and organizations whose peace the man violated. Under Article 415 of the Criminal Code, Kirill Palchevsky was found guilty of violating the rules for serving his previous sentence - two years of "house arrest", during which he committed numerous violations.
Kirill has a mental illness.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
3 years and 1 month of imprisonment in a penal colony
Convicted on June 9, 2021 for insulting a government official.
04/18/2022 convicted again, awaiting transfer to a colony.
| 19.10.2021 | 09/16/2021. registered as prone to extremism. |
1.5 years of restriction of freedom. 18.04. 2022 replacement of the regime with a high-security colony for a period of 5 months 8 days.
On September 24, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Inhabitant of Baranovichi. Dzmitry was convicted for an offensive comment that he left under Olga Karach's post with a photo of a police officer - Andrey Komar, a senior district inspector of the Pervomaisky district of Bobruisk.
2 years of "home chemistry"
Vera, 51 years old, worked as a janitor in a Vitebsk hostel.
According to the materials of the criminal case, Vera Strunina, on the evening of October 3, 2020, while at work in the hostel, posted a brief comment to the Vitebsk policeman Vitaly Shnyavin.
The comment was published in Instagram (public "Tipichniy Vitebsk") under the post with photos of Shnyavin. One of the pictures was taken on September 13, 2020 in Vitebsk during a mass action. On it, the policeman Shnyavin sprays gas towards citizens.
1,5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the investigation, on October 12, 2020, at about 21:00, Zaikovsky, in a state of alcoholic intoxication on Dzerzhinsky Avenue with other unidentified persons, resisted police officers, threatened them with violence, and threw a beer glass towards the police bus.
He did not admit his guilt.
On October 20, 2022, in colony No. 2, the consideration of the case against Alexander under Part 1 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus
In December 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years in prison in a general regime colony + compulsory treatment for alcoholism
40-year-old resident of Baranovichi. Convicted "for the offensive nature" of the comment in social networks in relation to Karaev Yu.Kh.
Started serving his sentence on 11/14/2021
Resident of Bobruisk. Convicted for a comment in social networks under the photo of the head of the Gantsevichi district police department..
Russian citizen. Arrested on May 28, 2021 for a tweet written on May 23. The tweet led to a publication in LiveJournal with a reprint of the BBC Russian Service material about the incident with the Ryanair plane (on which Roman Protasevich was flying). Vikholm added her own title to the reprint: "Lukashenko's next crime: an act of state air piracy" , and the phrase "act of state air piracy" was cited in the text of the BBC as a reaction of the Greek Foreign Ministry.
On September 1, 2022, she was released after the expiration of her sentence and immediately deported to the Russian Federation without the right to enter the Republic of Belarus for 10 years.
| 09.09.2021 | 09/16/2021 court will be held |
1.5 years in a general regime colony
Inhabitant of Bobruisk. According to the prosecution , Gleb Lukyantsev, on June 8, 2021, left a comment in the “Punishers of Belarus” telegram chat under the publication of the meeting between Lukashenka and Putin with the caption: “The cutest couple in Eastern Europe. Who do you think is the man in this relationship?
1.5 years of home chemistry. On November 25, 2021, the sentence was commuted to 1 year in prison.
A 30-year-old resident of Gomel, a hearing-impaired, deaf-mute, was convicted of insulting "the head of state, government officials and threatening violence against a judge", was taken into custody in the courtroom. Dmitry's hearing aid was taken away.
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