Inessa was convicted on charges of distributing leaflets in the city by posting them, which contained “knowingly false” information that slandered police officers.
Vitaly was found guilty in February 2021 of insulting a government official for a comment he left on the social media site Odnoklassniki about Baranovichi police officer Sergei Kovsh after he read that the officer had participated in the dispersal of peaceful demonstrators during post-election protests and used violence against them.
Trial outcome 19.02.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1587 rubles of compensation.
Maria was found guilty in February 2021 of "desecration of buildings and property damage" for spraying graffiti on the walls of a bus stop, a Tabakerka kiosk, a KBO, and her own home in the village of Bol'shiye Zavshitsy after Ruslan Okostko's arrest.
Yaroslav was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order" in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, people were singing and dancing in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
Trial outcome 25.02.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Lyudmila was found guilty in March 2021 of a criminal case filed under the article "insulting a judge." According to the charges, on December 20, 2020, while at her residence in Minsk, Lyudmila used a personal computer on the website "Mogilev.Online" to post comments under a published article, out of base motives, addressing a judge of the Leninsky District Court of Mogilev regarding her administration of justice. These comments were offensive and degrading, expressed in an obscene manner.
Olga was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "slander" and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Vitaly was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a message on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus" addressed to the commander of the 5th special operations company of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee, D.P. Koroty, which, according to the prosecution, was offensive.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Svetlana was detained and convicted for, according to investigators, scattering about 45 metal screws near the Minsk prosecutor's office on December 13, 2020. As a result, the car driven by the victim Klintsevich ran over them, and two tires were punctured.
Trial outcome 03.03.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Olga was found guilty of insulting a government official for her comments in a Viber group about the actions of Dmitry Voronov, head of the State Automobile Inspectorate department of the Stolbtsy District Department of Internal Affairs, during the dispersal of a peaceful demonstration in Stolbtsy in August 2020.
Trial outcome 09.03.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Vladislav was found guilty in March 2021 of insulting a government official for posting flyers on residential buildings on Moskovskaya and Orlovskaya Streets in Brest. According to the charges, the flyers contained photographs of police officers and texts "contrary to universal morality" and "written in an obscene manner."
Trial outcome 10.03.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 5000 rubles of compensation.
Darya was found guilty in March 2021 of a criminal case brought under the article on insulting a government official for a comment left on the social network VKontakte in the group "My Country Belarus." The comment was directed at Sergei Kolyada, a senior district police inspector at the Pruzhany District Executive Committee, and Tarasevich, a district police inspector at the same department. The comment read: "Scum".
Trial outcome 11.03.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 2174 rubles of compensation.
Svetlana was found guilty in March 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official. According to the charges, on October 26, 2020, she left the comment "Shoot yourself, b*tch" under a photo of Minsk Regional Executive Committee OMON Sergeant Vitaly Fyodorov on Facebook "with the intent to humiliate the honor and dignity of both the victim personally and the entire Ministry of Internal Affairs." In addition to her restricted freedom, Svetlana was also ordered to pay compensation for moral damages to the "victim."
Trial outcome 24.03.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1500 rubles of compensation.
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