All persecuted

Sentenced for 1 comment on social networks to 1.5 years of probation. In September 2023, Natalya was again detained and placed in a pre-trial detention center on charges of “financing extremist activities.”

The man was accused of creating and administering the telegram channel «‎23.34»‎, which contained information about Belarusian judges.

Viktor was also accused of «‎aiding and abetting the deliberate actions of administrators and participants of a number of other destructive Telegram channels, which were aimed at inciting social hostility on the basis of a different social affiliation and which entailed serious consequences»‎.

On March 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

The man worked as a therapist in the emergency room of the city hospital of Lida. According to preliminary information, he was detained for likes and comments of materials against the current government of the Republic of Belarus.

Soon it became known that Andrei Krasnik was going to be tried again: on April 17, 2023, a hearing on the case against the political prisoner under Part 2 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code (Violence or threat against an official) and Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code (Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate the order, or active participation in them). A judge has been appointed to consider the case Vladimir Fedorovich.

The woman was accused of leaving an offensive comment on the Belarus of the Brain Telegram channel on August 4, 2021, using her mobile phone, under a photo of police captain Ruslan Kutsko, an operative of the group for combating economic crimes of the Ivatsevichi District Executive Committee's internal affairs department.

On April 25, 2024, a new criminal case was considered against Elena in the Pervomaisky District Court of Minsk under Article 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a Government Official), Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code (Insulting Lukashenko). Judge - Anastasia Leikovskaya.

On October 17, 2024, Judge Mikhail Makarevich in the Minsk City Court considered the case under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Incitement of racial, national, religious or other social hatred or discord).

Elena Borisyuk has a higher education. She worked as a cashier in a construction hypermarket.

According to the investigation materials, Tatiana Kurilina, from August 20, 2020 to February 20, 2022, through Telegram channels, called people to violent actions against government officials and representatives of law enforcement agencies. She, without the consent of the victims, who are recognized, including employees of the prosecutor's office and judges, illegally collected, systematized and disseminated information about their private life, thereby harming their rights and legitimate interests. In that case, some messages in the chat rooms also concerned A.G. Lukashenko.

According to «‎Bypol», Tatiana Kurilina was deceived by Belarusian representatives of law enforcement agencies. This woman was seduced by a young man and asked to return to him in Belarus, promised to resolve all issues. She returned, but it turned out to be a special operation of the State security Committee and she was detained.

According to the prosecution, Gerasimovich violated the state flag by pulling the flag by the cloth and throwing it to the ground while intoxicated. After this, the flag was damaged and its staff was destroyed. The property damage to the organization on whose building the flag hung was estimated at 89 rubles - this is exactly how much the accused must pay as compensation.

The man admitted his guilt completely and said that he pulled the flag by accident so as not to fall. He had no intention of desecrating the state symbol of Belarus.

The court considered that if the accused did not admit to deliberately desecrating the flag, he did not fully understand his responsibility and did not repent, so he decided to impose a sentence of imprisonment. Although the expert concluded that the accused suffers from chronic alcoholism and requires compulsory treatment.

On March 3, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

Alexey was convicted for insulting comments in the telegram channel towards two representatives of the authorities. As follows from the text of the resolution, one of the tokens in Alexey's comments was: «erysipelas». The man fully admitted his guilt and repented. However, after the verdict was announced, the prosecutor of the Glubokoe district filed an appeal.

The Vitebsk Regional Court overturned the decision of the Glubokoe district court and replaced Alexey with two years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility for two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony and a penalty of 1920 BYN.

Former police officer, lieutenant. He quit because he could not look at everything that was happening, then he got a job as a security guard. He was badly beaten during the arrest. Former colleagues came to court as victims and spoke well of Oleg, but nevertheless exacted moral compensation. At home, Oleg was left to wait for one mother.

In 2021, she publicly announced that she was retiring from journalism. She explained her departure by the fact that she already had enough harassment for work without accreditation.

According to police reports, the courts punished the journalist with administrative fines more than forty times, including for covering post-election protests. Only days of detention were not appointed, because Shchiryakova alone raised a juvenile son.

In 2022, in September, after the arrest of a former colleague in the journalistic workshop, Yevgeny Merkisa Shchiryakova, in her posts on social networks, raised issues of keeping a journalist in a pre-trial detention center, posted messages on her pages in social networks about solidarity actions with Yevgeny, which were organized abroad.

After Larisa's detention, her son was taken to an orphanage right from school.

According to the materials of the case, Larisa Shchiryakova allegedly placed information on the Internet that discredited the Republic of Belarus. She is also accused of “collecting, creating, processing, storing and transmitting information for Vesna” and “Belsat”.

The accusation is based on comments that Kotov left within a month and a half after the 2020 presidential election in Telegram channels recognized by extremist groups in the territory of the Republic of Belarus. The investigators of these telegram channels found evidence of crimes under 4 articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

It is also known that Ivan was detained twice after the 2020 presidential election. For the first time immediately after August 9. For the second time, Lukashenko's security forces seized Kotov in mid-February 2021. Then the riot police detained 68 people in the village of Sokol, Smolevichi district – participants and spectators of the concert.

Pavel Omelyanov was accused of reposting a publication with an image of Lukashenko on the Telegram channel on December 27, 2020, under which he left offensive comments.

The man was also accused of systematically stealing bicycles stored in apartment buildings at night from June 20, 2021 to July 12, 2022. The Bobruisk resident stole a total of 27 bicycles worth 11,000 rubles.

The man repented of his actions and fully admitted his guilt.

On May 18, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.

Convicted for insulting and slandering Lukashenka A.L.

Works as a foreman at the elevator at JSC "Lidakhleboprodukt". On the day of the arrest, Igor was called to the checkpoint, first two "employees", then a bus flew up, from which OMON in uniform jumped out. Detained for participating in protests in 2020.

On December 22, 2022, the Court of Appeal took place.

Elena has 2 juvenile daughters (born in 2014 and 2015).