Svetlana Victorovna Bratanova
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Svetlana Victorovna Bratanova
She handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where she imposed punishment in the form of a fine in a total amount of at least 1,530 rubles and in the form of administrative arrest for at least 12 days. She sentenced Yuri Tereshkevich to two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony for insulting Lukashenko and found him guilty under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code. She imposed a sentence on Sergei Chernooky in the form of restriction of freedom without sending him to an open correctional facility for a period of two years and compensation for moral damages in favor of the victim in the amount of 1,000 rubles for insulting a traffic police officer Igor Volnich from Gantsevichi.
She handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where she imposed punishment in the form of a fine in a total amount of at least 1,530 rubles and in the form of administrative arrest for at least 12 days. She sentenced Yuri Tereshkevich to two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony for insulting Lukashenko and found him guilty under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code. She imposed a sentence on Sergei Chernooky in the form of restriction of freedom without sending him to an open correctional facility for a period of two years and compensation for moral damages in favor of the victim in the amount of 1,000 rubles for insulting a traffic police officer Igor Volnich from Gantsevichi.
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The trial itself was held in a show trial, outside the court building, in front of students from the Polytechnic and Agricultural Colleges. Konopatsky and Molchan were taken into custody in public view after the verdict was announced.
The essence of the claims against Molchan and Konopatsky was that in the summer of 2021, in the village of Dyatlovichi (Luninetsky district of the Brest region), the state flag was removed from a store. According to the prosecution, the young people then burned the flag in the forest. Thus, according to the prosecution and the judge, the crime of "desecration of a state symbol" occurred.
He was expected to be released in December 2024.
The trial itself was held in a show trial, outside the court building, in front of students from the Polytechnic and Agricultural Colleges. Konopatsky and Molchan were taken into custody in public view after the verdict was announced.
The essence of the claims against Molchan and Konopatsky was that in the summer of 2021, in the village of Dyatlovichi (Luninetsky district of the Brest region), the state flag was removed from a store. According to the prosecution, the young people then burned the flag in the forest. Thus, according to the prosecution and the judge, the crime of "desecration of a state symbol" occurred.
He was expected to be released in December 2024.
Safanovich was accused of writing messages in a Telegram chat on October 25, 2020, calling for road closures. According to the prosecution and the court, in his first message, Safanovich "called for active participation in group actions in the Luninets district that grossly violate public order," i.e. Safanovich allegedly committed a crime under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Safanovich was also charged under Part 1 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, i.e. public slander against Lukashenko. As follows from the article of the state publication, Safanovich wrote a second message in the same chat on August 13, 2020, under a photo of a tearful woman leaving Okrestina. The caption to the video was as follows : "Confession of a Belarusian girl who was in the dungeons of Lukashenko's Gestapo. Do I understand correctly that Lukashenko became the second after Hitler to attack the people of Belarus?"
On July 18, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released on December 23, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Alexander was detained at his parents' place in Luninets on June 7, 2021, after which he was transported to Minsk, then to Zhodino, where he was taken into custody as part of a criminal case initiated after the march to Kurapaty, which took place on November 1, 2020 in Minsk. Two months later, he was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and sentenced to restriction of freedom with referral to a correctional facility.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In November 2024, as part of a special proceeding against Alexander, a court hearing was held in absentia to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.