Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
Accused of attacking journalist Azarenka and participating in protests in 2020.
According to the prosecution , Artem Zabelenkov was on Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk on October 11, 2020, where he demanded to stop filming a pro-government TV channel. He also allegedly “used violence against journalist Grigory Azarenka and threatened television cameraman Andrei Ivanenko with violence.” In addition, Artem Zabelenkov is accused of taking an active part in group actions on October 11, 2020, together with other persons, grossly violating public order, resulting in disruption of transport and enterprises.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Ivan Muravyov is 43 years old. At one time, he was at the origins of the STV TV channel, but for the last ten years he has been engaged in managing the famous hookah bar «Kaliannaya No. 1» on Karl Marx Street.
Detained the Investigative Committee in a hookah bar. Muravyov did not participate in the protests of 2020 (but he had an administrative arrest. He turned out to be a random victim who was dragged out of the car by law enforcement officers during the protests).
After being detained, Ivan was held for 5 days in the Okrestina, after which he was transferred to a prison in Zhodino. Before the trial, he spent several days in pre-trial detention center-1.
Trial outcome 15.08.2022:
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the prosecution , from January to December 2021, Pavel Voropai posted comments in various Telegram channels with insults against the Chairperson of the Central Commission for Elections and Holding Republican Referendums Lidiya Yermoshina, the Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Natalia Kochanova, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei, the Prosecutor General of Belarus Andrei Shved, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Korzyuk, the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Olga Chemodanova, the head of the Vitebsk customs Pavel Lobachev, as well as a prosecutor, a judge of one of the capital's districts and other government officials.
He is expected to be released in the spring of 2025.
Trial outcome 30.08.2022
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Timofey left an offensive comment on social networks regarding the death in September 2021 as a result of a shootout of IT specialist Andrei Zeltser and an employee of the State Security Committee.
In early March 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
04.09.2022
When the main case was closed (articles 130 and 369), he was also charged with article 293 part 1 for commenting
Maxim was detained at the end of September 2020 as part of a criminal case initiated after the murder of IT specialist Andrei Zeltser and State Security Committee employee Dmitry Fedosyuk in the Minsk apartment.
The Court of Appeal reduced Vadim's term by three months.
Anesthesiologist-resuscitator at the Minsk Scientific and Practical Center for Surgery, Transplantology and Hematology.
In the “repentance” video, a 35-year-old woman says that she was detained because of comments on the Internet - she allegedly insulted police officers.
She was convicted at the end of December 2022.
She was released in May 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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