He was detained in early March, near the village of Voronovo, Grodno region, trying to leave Belarus for Lithuania. When police officers inspected his mobile phone, they found subscriptions to Telegram channels recognized by the authorities as "extremist". Initially, the court arrested Viktor Zolotarevsky under the article on dissemination of extremist materials (Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), but later he was charged under criminal articles for registering in the chatbot "Plan Peramoga" and a video sent to the Telegram channel Nexta. The video showed a conversation between Ukrainian soldiers and relatives in Gomel.
Zolotarevsky lived in Minsk and worked in the carriage depot of the Minsk branch of the Belarusian Railways, living in a hostel.
After his arrest he was fired.
There is a possibility that he was released on pardon.
According to the case file, Tamara Karavai in December 2022 via a messenger on a social network ok.ru posted slanderous information about Alexander Lukashenko.
At the hearing, Karavai fully admitted her guilt, but refused to testify.
It is known that Tamara Karavai has a dependent juvenile child.
Trial outcome 29.03.2023:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
And the court also decided to apply compulsory safety measures and treatment for chronic alcoholism to the woman at the place of serving her sentence.
Initially, Vladislav was detained in the administrative case 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for 15 days, during which he was charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus . A photo from marches in Minsk was found on his phone.
Trial outcome 27.03.2023:
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Dmitry was found guilty that from November 25, 2020 to April 4, 2021, he left offensive comments in the telegram channel «Karateli Belarusi» towards the authorities. Investigators found at least 15 such statements, for which the man was tried.
29.05.2023
При поступлении в ИУОТ -49 г. Шклова был сразу поставлен на профучет с формулировкой "склонен к экстремизму и деструктивной деятельности"
Trial outcome 15.02.2023
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
39 year old Irena is a specialist of the Minsk City Agency for State Registration and Land Cadastre, she was detained in the summer of 2022. It is known that the woman has 4 minor children. Slander was charged with four articles of the Criminal Code.
Trial outcome 28.03.2023
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Convicted of participating in protest actions on August 10 and 16, 2020.
In addition, in July 2021, the accused allegedly assisted an extremist formation when he sent messages to the chatbot of one of the Telegram channels recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus with unreliable data regarding one of the company's managers, as well as data about his private life.
At the hearing, the accused admitted his guilt in part. At the same time, he pointed out that he had no intention of promoting extremist formation.
Trial outcome 02.03.2023:
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The man, according to the materials of the prosecution, posted publications in Telegram in which he gave a negative assessment of Lukashenko — profanity was used in the messages. In them, the accused allegedly also called for violence against military man of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, law enforcement officers, incited national and social enmity: «Russian invaders participating in the forcible seizure of foreign state territory by military force».
Trial outcome 31.03.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The circumstances of the case are still unknown to human rights defenders, since the court session was closed. It is known that Konstantin was detained in early November 2022 and was in pre-trial detention center № 3 all the time.
Trial outcome 27.02.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
He was detained for a chat-roulette conversation with Yuri Komar.
During the conversation, he asked Ukrainians for weapons, and to Komar's question: «Are you going to kill supporters of the current government?»; he answered: «Yes».
Dmitry was detained together with a friend — white-red-white flags were put on their heads, and then they were forced to wash the floor with these flags.
An appeal hearing was held on September 19, 2023. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 19.06.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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