Andrei was accused of participating in protests in Minsk in 2020 and blocking public transport. The man was also accused of using a white-red-white ribbon and a victory gesture.
Andrey was identified by the photos he took at the protest and then published on his page vk.com.
The man fully admitted his guilt.
The prosecutor also filed a lawsuit to recover property damage from Andrey in favor of the Ministry of Transport in the amount of 86 515 BYN. The claim will be considered in civil proceedings.
Andrey has a higher education. He worked as a specialist.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Detained for participating in protests.
He began serving his sentence on 09/06/2023.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
Dmitry was found guilty that from November 25, 2020 to April 4, 2021, he left offensive comments in the telegram channel «Karateli Belarusi» towards the authorities. Investigators found at least 15 such statements, for which the man was tried.
| 29.05.2023 | При поступлении в ИУОТ -49 г. Шклова был сразу поставлен на профучет с формулировкой "склонен к экстремизму и деструктивной деятельности" |
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
39 year old Irena is a specialist of the Minsk City Agency for State Registration and Land Cadastre, she was detained in the summer of 2022. It is known that the woman has 4 minor children. Slander was charged with four articles of the Criminal Code.
6 years imprisonment in a colony.
Plastic surgeon, was detained on February 14, 2023 right at the workplace. After the administrative arrest, he was not released.
2 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The man has a higher education and works as a driver in a private company. Has six children, of which three are juveniles. One of them is two years old.
Dmitry was accused of leaving offensive comments in a telegram chat in January 2022 against the Minsk prosecutor, the captain of the Minsk traffic police, the captain of the Bobruisk militia of the special purpose detachment, the judge of the Leninsky district court of Grodno, the police major, the deputy head of law enforcement and prevention of the police department of the Frunzensky district of Minsk, police sergeants of the special purpose detachment Mogilev Regional Department of Internal Affairs .
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained for comments on social networks. Maxim is waiting for his 10-year-old son at home.
7 years imprisonment in a colony.
A 34-year-old resident of Bobruisk. After 10 days in the Okrestina detention center, he was transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1.
The man was charged with donating to an organization recognized as terrorist in Belarus. He faces 8 to 12 years in prison.
Dmitry Sluk did not appeal the verdict and was transferred to one of the Belarusian colonies to serve his sentence.
On June 24, 2024, the conditions of detention were tightened, and Dmitry was transferred to prison regime.
8.5 years in prison
Detained for comments on social networks.
On July 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
1.5 years imprisonment in a colony
Born in Ukraine. European Kickboxing Champion. Presumably detained for wanting to fight in Ukraine.
At the trial, Pavel stated that he initially reacted to the war in Ukraine on emotions, but later abandoned the idea of military operations. In addition, Pavel is charged with illegally crossing the state border with the Russian Federation in the Republic of Belarus of potent substances (stanozolol 100 tablets), illegal purchase and storage of ammunition (16 cartridge cases from 9mm cartridges, 12 cartridges of 9mm caliber).
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Maxim is a Minsk resident. Has a higher education. The man is divorced. He once worked as a security guard, later as a builder. Then he opened an individual entrepreneur and erected monuments in the cemetery. I've been unemployed lately.
Friends recall that Maxim served his military service in one of the Minsk “special forces” units.
Maxim is accused of blowing up a police car near the Central District Department of Internal Affairs.
The incident happened on the night of January 7-8, 2022, not far from the building of the Central District Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk. A criminal case has been opened for blowing up a car under Article 289 (repeated act of terrorism).
Investigators later added that on the night of January 13, he allegedly damaged the Tabakerka kiosk and a trash can in the same way.
On May 26, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
15 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to the materials of the investigation, from February 2021 to October 2022, from February 2021 to October 2022, Nikolai Korol posted messages in various instant messengers in which he outlined slanderous fabrications against Lukashenko, publicly insulted him, as well as the leaders of the Central Election Commission and the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly, a number of other state servants and a judge.
On October 11, 2022, he, in order to facilitate the activities of the destructive Telegram channel, whose information products were previously recognized by the court as extremist materials, produced and sent a message about the movement of military aircraft in the Brest region.
Nicholas has a wife and a one-year-old son.
4 years in prison
Convicted for the fact that in December a man ruined three desktop flags of Belarus.
According to the case file, in a shop on Pushinsky pr-t, a 28 year old man «grabbed the panels of three desktop flags of the Republic of Belarus, which were in a metal shelf of the store, tore the flag cloths out of plastic rods and threw them on the floor». The state prosecution regarded Dmitry's actions as committed «on the grounds of political and ideological enmity».
1.5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Olga was convicted for a Facebook post made back in 2020.
According to law enforcement officials, the woman showed «a desire to undermine the authority of the head of state and insult the president in the eyes of the public by choosing a method designed for a wide range of people to spread false information».
| 05.07.2023 | 15 июня поставлена на учёт как лицо склонное к экстремизму |
2.5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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