According to the case materials, in August 2020, a member of the group chat used his mobile phone to post messages from his account containing statements of an inciting nature and calls for physical violence against law enforcement officers.
On August 15, 2020 and February 12, 2021, he posted offensive comments in a Telegram chat about the president, as well as the military commissar of the Gomel region, Andrei Krivonosov.
He was released in June 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Karaban Denis is accused at trial of leaving the following comment in the VK group “BAD NEWS BELARUS”: “A*uenchik, it’s high time to bring them down.”
The investigation and the state prosecution regard this statement as the commission of a crime under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code, i.e. inciting hostility (against law enforcement officers).
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the beginning of June 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
According to investigators, on August 12, 2020 Oleg Dmitrachenko in vk.ru under the publication: «The official Sergei Stashevsky forced the members of the commission to forge the protocol» in the group «Eto Vitebsk, detka» («This is Vitebsk, baby») left a comment of offensive content.
According to human rights activists, he was released in June 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
According to the case file, Artyom Prigozhaev and Gleb Lyogky on the evening of November 15, 2021, being drunk, tore the national flag of the Republic of Belarus from the building of one of the city's schools and waved it. Then they threw him to the ground, and Gleb threw a cigarette butt at him.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome:
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the indictment, in August 2021, he and Yaroslav Geben tore the national flag from one of the stores and took indecent photographs with it and filmed a video.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome:
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the case file, Artyom Prigozhaev and Gleb Lyogky on the evening of November 15, 2021, being drunk, tore the national flag of the Republic of Belarus from the building of one of the city's schools and waved it. Then they threw him to the ground, and Artyom trampled on him.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome:
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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