A well-known activist on Facebook, a supporter of Viktor Babariko, is charged with Article 368 of the Criminal Code (“Insulting the President”). The Mogilev resident faces up to four years in prison.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
| 27.09.2021 | Detained for 367 h2 registered prone to extremism |
3 years in a general regime colony
According to the indictment, on the night of August 9-10, 2020, Maxim Tishkevich was on Masherova Avenue, where he joined other protesters, went out onto the roadway, shouted slogans in public, clapped his hands loudly and waved his arms, and also showed insulting gestures to the side police officers.
In March 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
2 yearsin prison .
He was detained on August 4, 2021 as part of a criminal case. The trial was held behind closed doors.
3 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution
He was detained on the evening of August 2, 2021 at a dacha near Minsk during the celebration of the birthday of IRDORATH vocalist Nadezhda Kalach along with other musicians. Some people were convicted over the next two days on administrative cases of disobedience to the police, including Dmitry - he was given 15 days of arrest.
3 years of restriction of liberty in an open institution.
Detained under Art. 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On December 17, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1.5 years in prison
Former Ambassador of Belarus to Slovakia, who, after the undemocratic presidential elections in August 2020, condemned the violence against the Belarusian people and protesters, and after that took part in various social and political initiatives.
On August 11, 2021, he was detained and placed in a temporary detention facility. Released August 20, 2021.
According to the charges, Ilya Komkov took part in an unauthorized mass event on September 23, 2020 on Svobody Square in Minsk, acted together with unidentified persons, shouted slogans, repeatedly refused to comply with the demands of police officers, prevented the detention of one of the protesters and was detained for this.
Ilya Komkov did not admit his guilt.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Alexey was accused of active participation in group actions that grossly violated public order for the events of September 13, 2020, as well as attempted theft.
He was detained on February 23, 2021 and kept in a pre-trial detention center until his trial. On August 15, 2021, Alexey was sentenced to three years in prison in the Frunzensky District Court of Minsk to be served in a general regime colony . Minsktrans filed a claim for compensation for damage caused in the amount of almost 29 thousand rubles . Alena Busheva also decided to apply “compulsory security measures and treatment for chronic alcoholism and drug addiction” to Alexey at the place where he was serving his sentence.
At the time of his arrest, Alexey Maltsev had an outstanding criminal record and was serving a sentence of restriction of freedom without being sent to the Penitentiary Labor Inspectorate: 2 months and 3 days remained before the expiration of the term at the time of arrest.
11/20/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
3 years in prison.
On September 14, 2020, Lepeshev saw Prydybaylo’s phone number in the Black Book of Belarus, called him and said: “You are fucked up.” During the trial, it became known that for security reasons the propagandist was then transferred to the Russian embassy in Minsk. The victim Prydybailo was able to attend the trial only on the day of the debate. He filed a civil suit in the form of 3,000 rubles for "moral suffering". Investigators also found Lepeshev's correspondence on the Discuss and Ask portals, where he wrote, for example, such phrases as "a good Muscovite is a dead Muscovite." For this, a criminal case was opened against Lepeshev for inciting ethnic hatred.
Svyatoslav has 1 minor child.
4 years of restriction of freedom .
In December 2022, Svyatoslav's sentence was tightened and he was transferred to a colony. Taking into account the recalculation of the term, he remained in prison for 1.5 years.
The court of the Oktyabrsky district of the city of Vitebsk found 46-year-old Andrei Ivanov guilty under Art. 341 of the Criminal Code (desecration of buildings and damage to property).
120 hours of community service .
According to the prosecution, on August 25, 2020, “in one of the social networks, under a photo in uniform, the deputy head of the police department of the Kobrin district executive committee posted a comment that contradicts universal morality, established rules of communication between people, which is an abnormal form of speech expression, has a negative assessment of the victim.”
She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
Natalya was found guilty of commenting on the actions of a police lieutenant from the traffic police service from Kamenets (Brest region) Mikhalochkin in the telegram channel. During the investigation, Andropova said that she left a comment due to the fact that Mikhalochkin's father works at a school and raised his son profitably.
Artyom was found guilty of creating an open Telegram channel on January 26, 2021 and posting images of seven employees of the Osipovichi District Department of Internal Affairs with a humiliating comment. Transferred to a colony before the end of the term.
On October 7, 2022, he was released after the expiration of the sentence.
| 07.02.2022 | Transferred to IK 8, Orsha, 195a Lenina street 211388 |
He left insulting comments in the Telegram channel under the photo of the prosecutor and a police officer from Minsk, which were accompanied by obscene language. Ignatovich arrived at the court accompanied by a police officer, since at the moment he is already serving his sentence in "chemistry" in Mogilev - for malicious hooliganism, not related to politics.
In May 2022, the regime was replaced by a colony.
04/07/2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
| 28.03.2022 | After four penalties in uot 24 for violation of the regime will be transferred to a correctional colony |
| 13.08.2021 | 08/10/2021 is registered as an extremist |
2.5 years of restriction of freedom .
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