He was found guilty that on October 27, 2020, he published an insulting comment in a telegram chat under a video of Lukashenko's speech in order to present him humiliated in the eyes of the public.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in 2023.
2 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Resident of Novopolotsk. Convicted for a comment on the social network VKontakte.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
4 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.
On June 7, 2023, the punishment regime was tightened. Transferred to a colony for 1 year.
Resident of Dribin, convicted for insulting the state symbol.
The reason for initiating a criminal case was that he, together with Viktoria Zherdetskaya (another person involved in the case), on their Youtube channel “in order to make their channel popular and demonstrate their blasphemous attitude” altered the graphic image of the State Emblem. The resulting graphic image was subsequently used by the defendants as the logo of the Telegram and Youtube channels, as well as in the videos that they uploaded to their channel. He was released on October 24, 2021.
3 months of arrest
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral ("home chemistry")
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral ("home chemistry")
Detained for participating in protests on August 9, 2020.
He was released in the fall of 2023.
| 24.11.2021 | He is on the list of the HRC "Spring", but is not recognized as a political prisoner. Leshkevich Boris Stanislavovich, who is recognized as a political prisoner, is involved in the case with him. Both were sentenced to 2 years of "chemistry" with a referral, the result of the appeal - the sentence was upheld. |
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
Detained in the case of "Brest round dances". He was detained by three GUBOPiK officers together with his family (wife and children aged 5 and 8). During the interrogation, operatives from the Department of Internal Affairs of the Moskovsky district kept the children in the corridor for four hours. After everyone was transferred to the Investigative Committee, where they were also interrogated for four hours. Then the family was released, and Vladimir was detained, and then sentenced to 1.5 years in a colony on the "case of round dances." On February 1, a second trial took place and Vladimir was found guilty of insulting a traffic police officer, Yuri Demyanovich. By partial addition of punishment, since at the time of the trial Goncharov was already serving a term in the colony in the "dance case", the man was sentenced to 2 years in prison in a general regime colony.
Released after expiration of sentence.
2 years in a general regime colony
He was detained and convicted as part of a criminal case initiated after protests in Brest in August 2020.
Released in May 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3.5 years in prison under enhanced regime.
A resident of Minsk, detained on June 17 as part of a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).
Pavel was charged, he was placed in a pre-trial detention center.
2 years of restriction of freedom without a referral to the IUOT - "home chemistry"
Convicted by the Vitebsk District Court for insulting the former Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Barsukov in a telegram chat.
Released on June 19, 2023 after the expiration of the sentence.
| 25.11.2022 | 10/30/2022 was taken from chemistry and the next day was convicted under 19.11 Koap, given 5 days |
| 08.08.2021 | 07/05/2021 was registered as an extremist |
A resident of Vitebsk, was detained on July 14, 2021, according to the prosecution, he insulted Nikolai Karpenkov (former head of the GUBOPiK), Lydia Yermoshina (chairman of the CEC), Alina Kasyanchik (prosecutor for politically motivated criminal cases), Vadim Denisenko (military commander), Marina Zapasnik (judge court of the Leninsky district of the city of Minsk) and Natalya Buguk (judge of the court of the Frunzensky district of the city of Minsk), Lukashenko A.G.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Detained on May 4, 2021.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years in prison.
The basis for initiating a criminal case was a comment under a post about the head of the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Vitebsk Sergei Stashevsky , who forced teachers to rewrite election protocols. This is not the first trial in Vitebsk for insulting Stashevsky.
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 restriction of freedom .
According to the indictment, on November 27, 2020, Dmitry Yaskevich intended to publicly insult a representative of the authorities in order to humiliate his honor and dignity in connection with the performance of his official duties, based on political and ideological enmity associated with the electoral campaign in the Republic of Belarus, out of a sense of hostility towards representatives authorities and desire to present Nikita Mikhalochkin in a humiliating position for the general public, left a comment on the telegram channel “Punishers of Belarus” with the following content: “Freaks” . With this, the accused inflicted moral suffering on the injured policeman, undermined his authority and personal qualities. On December 25, 2020, Dmitry Yaskevich committed similar actions against the deputy head of the Zhlobin District Department of Internal Affairs Dmitry Dedyun, leaving a comment: that has already been convicted.
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