Convicted of insulting Lukashenko.
On June 20, 2023, an appellate court hearing was held, and the verdict came into force.
At the beginning of June 2024 he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years in prison.
According to the prosecution , on February 13, 2023, Igor Svirida, while in the Compulsory Enforcement Department (COI), “... provided a department employee with a handwritten explanation of the reasons for non-payment of fines imposed by the court for committing various administrative offenses, in which he deliberately and publicly wrote the text, in the content of which, in an offensive form, he expressed a negative assessment of the president’s personality, presented in the form of an obscene form of speech expression...”
On the same day, when a squad of employees of the Security Department was called to the enforcement department to detain him, he again publicly insulted A.G. Lukashenko. The investigation claims that Igor Svirida was allegedly intoxicated in the premises of the OPI.
During the court hearing, he partially admitted his guilt.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 upon expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained on January 9, 2023 as part of a criminal case opened in Brest based on the events of September 13, 2020, when during a protest, people danced in a circle on the roadway (the so-called “round dance case”).
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Yaroslav Kazakevich, a 27 year old resident of Orsha, accused of facilitating extremist activities.
According to the case materials, on December 8, 2022, the accused made a video file using a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone at the railway station «Orsha-Tsentralnaya», on which an echelon with Russian military equipment was recorded. Then Kazakevich, being in the carriage of a train of regional lines, distributed through the Internet the named video file in the Telegram channel, the information products of which had previously been recognized by the court as extremist materials.
On December 9, 2022, Yaroslav was detained by police officers and arrested by the Orsha district court for 15 days for the production and distribution of extremist materials. He was never released again.
On June 6, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.
Trial outcome 04.04.2023: 2 years of imprisonment under general regime conditions.
Appeal 04.04.2023: the sentence was upheld.
According to the materials of the prosecution , Vadim Myakinnik, near the administrative building of one of the secondary schools in Minsk, saw a red-green flag on a metal bracket on the wall at the main entrance. Grabbing the flag with his hand, he tore it off the bracket, after which, holding in his right hand the staff with the cloth displaced on it, he disappeared and headed in an unknown direction, thereby publicly humiliating the state symbol. These actions were recorded by a surveillance camera.
The educational institution suffered damage in the amount of 25 rubles 20 kopecks.
2 months 1 day imprisonment in a penal colony under strict regime conditions.
The Rogachevsky District Court found that Yulia posted messages and videos on her public page on the social network Instagram that “contained an insult to the president.”
12/02/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Convicted of participating in protests and blocking roads on August 9 and October 25, 2020.
Released on 05/08/2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
On June 16, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released on December 25, 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under the general regime.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison
According to the state prosecution , in June 2021, Dmitry Gorbunov wrote a comment on the Internet under a photograph of Lida police officer Anton Anatolyevich Kotilo with the word “asshole”.
Opposition Telegram channels wrote about Kotilo that he participated in the arrest of activist Vitold Ashurka (the activist later died in prison).
The public insult to Lukashenko, according to the prosecution, also occurred on the Internet in August 2022.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
It is known that on December 10, 2022, Dmitry, while intoxicated, tore the national flag from the building of the Tsevli railway station and broke the pole. This was recorded by CCTV cameras.
The man was detained. Dmitry admitted his guilt.
The hearing of the appeal is scheduled for April 21, 2023 in the Brest Regional Court.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Former student of BSUIR.
He was detained at the end of September 2022 while trying to cross the Belarusian-Lithuanian border.
He is involved in the case together with Anita Bakunovich and Nikolai Kuleshov about illegal border crossing.
He was released in May 2024.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
32 year old Maxim was detained in early February 2023 after returning to Belarus from abroad. He is charged with «people's» art. 342 of the Criminal Code.
In 2020, Maxim worked as a firefighter and warned residents when the Ministry of Emergency Situations went to remove flags.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison
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