According to the court , Andrei Timonin, Valeria Ivchina, Mikhail Pishchalo, Svetlana Kotova and Denis Kotov took part in marches in Minsk in August and September, “went out onto the roadway” and “blocked traffic.”
All defendants admitted guilt.
Trial outcome 13.06.2024
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He was found guilty of posting a post on Facebook that allegedly humiliated the honor and dignity of Lukashenko. Tomczyk admitted guilt. A forensic examination testified that the publication contained “lexemes that contained nickname nominations” for Lukashenko.
Before the trial, Tomchik’s property was seized, including a TV, smart speakers, a vacuum cleaner, a washing machine and a multicooker. The judge decided to lift his arrest.
Trial outcome 18.04.2024:
2 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional institution
According to the indictment , Fedor, "acting on the basis of ideological hatred, using a mobile phone, with the intent to provide funds to a group of citizens united under the name "Honest People" and a recognized extremist group, transferred 52 rubles 88 kopecks to bank accounts, which at the exchange rate of Sberbank at that time amounted to 20 dollars." For the same reasons, Fedor Shvedov transferred 26 rubles 07 kopecks (equivalent to 10 dollars) to the organization "Belarusian Council of Culture." Fedor transferred another 26 rubles 20 kopecks to the organization "BY_help".
Fedor graduated from Grodno State University in 1998. He lives with his family in Oshmyany. He and his wife have three children - two adults and one minor. He was a star of the Belarusian "What? Where? When?" even before he got into the TV version of the program.
On July 5, 2024, the appeal was heard.
Trial outcome 19.04.2024:
3.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open prison correctional facility
Sergei was accused of writing several messages in the Telegram messenger. The hearing took place in the building of the Berezovsky Cooperative Industrial Plant. After the trial, prosecutor Alexander Krutko gave the workers a lecture "and reminded them of their responsibility for extremist crimes."
Sergey is 58 years old, he is originally from Ivanovo and lives in Bereza.
He was under house arrest before the trial.
Human rights activists learned that he began serving his sentence in an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 26.03.2024
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Vladimi reposted several publications on Odnoklassniki allegedly insulting Alexander Lukashenko, “acting with the aim of discrediting and causing damage to the authority of state power.” These were a video from the public “Belarus Political”, text and photos from the public “STOP LUKA”. He did not block access to the page.
He was released from custody in the courtroom.
Trial outcome 21.03.2024:
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
He was detained by a traffic police officer on November 18, 2023, while riding a bicycle (according to a traffic police officer, while intoxicated) and taken to the Pruzhanskaya Central District Hospital, where he insulted Lukashenko. Before the trial he was under recognizance not to leave.
As follows from the published verdict , Maxim Gurinovich was accused of writing an offensive comment on the Odnoklassniki social network in the group “Belsat TV Channel” under the news about the verdict of a single mother. The news said that a single mother allegedly insulted policeman R. Kutsko with an “offensive symbol” and for this she was sentenced to 2 years of “domestic chemicals.” Gurinovich’s own comment was also about this same Kutsko, and the news was accompanied by a photograph of “police officers in uniform.”
For his moral suffering from Gurinovich’s comment, policeman Kutsko asked for 2 thousand rubles in moral compensation. Maxim paid 400 rubles of this before the trial, so he filed a lawsuit for the remaining 1,600 rubles. The judge granted this claim: Gurinovich will have to pay Kutsko another 1,600 rubles in moral compensation, and also pay a fine of 50 b.v. (2000 rubles). Maxim’s phone was confiscated to the state “as a means of committing a crime.”
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