Edgar was detained in a criminal case opened for comments on the social network VKontakte after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser.
Edgar Shirko previously worked as a librarian, a journalist for the Intex-Press publication, and taught history and social studies at school.
On 13.01.2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in February 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the prosecution, in December 2021, Sergei Kemezh "after reading the information published in the destructive groups of the Vkontakte social network, posted an offensive comment against the commander of one of the military units" . It is alleged that he was registered under an invalid name and used a VPN, but he was still identified.
Sergei was already tried in September 2021 for the fact that on January 25, 2021, on the social network Vkontakte, under the news about the verdict for insulting the commander of the OMON Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk City Executive Committee, he wrote an insulting comment about this policeman. appointed him two years of "chemistry", as well as compensate 3,000 rubles for moral damage. Sergey was also accused of extortion from the wife of a former classmate, for which he was also awarded 2 years of "chemistry". In total, the man was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of "chemistry".
In September 2022, Sergei was included in the "List of extremists".
In the Lida District Court on June 19, 2023, he was sentenced for “insulting a military serviceman” to two years in a general regime colony and 100 basic fines.
2,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
A 44 year old citizen of Latvia, who was temporarily registered in the Minsk region, is accused of calling for restrictive measures aimed at harming the national security of Belarus, inciting other social hostility, insulting a government representative and insulting Lukashenko.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Top manager of the operator life:). He was arrested for distributing the data of law enforcement officers to telegram channels.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
In a story on the Bel State TV channel, it was reported that Alexander transferred about $800 to BYPOL in May 2021. It is worth noting that BYPOL was recognized as an extremist organization in November 2021, that is, at the time of transfer the initiative was not extremist.
It became known that on February 29, 2024, Alexander will be tried again in the Minsk City Court. He is accused under Part 1 of Art. 361-2 (financing extremist activities) and Part 2 of Art. 290-1 (financing of terrorist activities). Now the man faces up to 15 years in prison. On March 15, 2024, the verdict was pronounced.
3 years of imprisonment.
Detained for hanging a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine on the facade of a high-rise building in Minsk.
After his detention, the channel in the Zello mobile application, through which he communicated during the rally, was recognized as an extremist formation.
21.03.2023 | The trial began on March 20, 2023, Judge Kuchuk |
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Detained for hanging a white-red-white flag After their detention, the channel in the Zello mobile application through which they communicated during the rally was recognized as an extremist formation.
21.03.2023 | The trial began on March 20, 2023, Judge Kuchuk |
4 years 9 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Individual entrepreneur. The essence of the accusation is still unknown.
On January 17, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
4,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the version of the prosecution, Pavel from December 2020 to June 2022 in ok.ru on his page he posted publications with images of Lukashenko, in which he humiliated the honor and dignity of the victim using, among other things, profanity.
In December 2020, he posted a digital image with a combination of a red background and a green swastika with an ornament, which violated the National Flag of the Republic of Belarus..
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained for participating in protests in 2020.
On October 20, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony under general regime
Resident of the village of Shchorsy, Novogrudok district. He was accused of reposting a message from the group “Grodno Region of Changes!” on his page on the Odnoklassniki social network. The message itself was dedicated to two employees of penal institutions.
Before the trial, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest was applied to Viktor Pilzhis - from September 12, 2022. This means that Pilzhis was forbidden to leave the house, use the Internet and communications.
In addition to the sentence of two years in prison, the court ordered Viktor Pilzhis to pay two security officials 10,000 Belarusian rubles as compensation for their moral damage.
On December 6, 2022, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
On January 4, 2023, the appeal against the verdict was considered.
On November 2, 2022, in the court of the Bobruisk district and the city of Bobruisk, Judge Pavel Kartinin made a decision on the case "On parole from the main punishment in the form of correctional labor." On February 8, 2023, in the court of the Mozyr district, the subject of the hearing was "bringing the sentence into line with the new criminal law."
On April 19, 2023, Judge Pavel Kartinin made a decision on the case "On the termination of compulsory security measures and treatment."
On February 27, 2024, the Borisovsky District Court assigned the case "On the establishment of preventive supervision", but already on June 11, 2024, Judge Lyudmila Zinkevich considered the case under Part 1 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code (Malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of a correctional institution executing a sentence of imprisonment). On September 6, 2024, the appeal will be considered.
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