For political reasons, fines were issued in the amount of 2835 rubles and 186 days of administrative arrest.
On April 13, he sentenced Alexey Lipena. The man was accused of insulting government officials and threatening to use violence against police officers. About 10 employees were victims in the case. Lipenya received 5 years of chemo.
He sentenced Yevgeny Kurganov, a political prisoner with III degree of disability, to 2 years in a general regime colony for “participation in an unauthorized mass event.”
He sentenced Oleg Asaul to three years in prison for insulting the president and an employee of the Department of Internal Affairs, Demina N.
For political reasons, fines were issued in the amount of 2835 rubles and 186 days of administrative arrest.
On April 13, he sentenced Alexey Lipena. The man was accused of insulting government officials and threatening to use violence against police officers. About 10 employees were victims in the case. Lipenya received 5 years of chemo.
He sentenced Yevgeny Kurganov, a political prisoner with III degree of disability, to 2 years in a general regime colony for “participation in an unauthorized mass event.”
He sentenced Oleg Asaul to three years in prison for insulting the president and an employee of the Department of Internal Affairs, Demina N.
An anarchist activist was detained while crossing the Belarusian border on the night of October 28-29, 2020 and accused of “arson” and “terrorism.”
In September 2022, a new criminal case was opened against Dmitry and he was sentenced to five years in prison. Taking into account the previous sentence, he was finally sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security penal colony.
In August 2023, Dmitry was transferred to prison regime for “violating the rules of the order.”
Trial outcome 22.12.2021
18 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, approximately 11000 rubles of compensation.
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Aleksandr Osipovich is now 48 years old. He is a product of the Minsk Dynamo youth system. At the adult level, Osipovich first played for the Dynamo farm team in D2, from where he was called up to the youth team (he eventually played 15 matches there). He made his debut for the main team of the "white-blues" in mid-1997 - he began to appear regularly in the lineup, and the team won the championship title. Later in his career, he played for Lithuanian "Zalgiris", Polish "Zagłębie", as well as other clubs in Belarus and neighboring countries. After finishing his career, Osipovich became a football agent and also worked as a "football tutor".
At the end of 2022, Alexander was detained by "security forces" in Minsk. Later, human rights activists managed to find out that on January 9, 2023, Osipovich was "tried" under the article under which they punished for "insulting" Alexander Lukashenko (now they have added his family members there). The "sentence" was passed by Oleg Kalyada, who has more than one "political" case under his belt.
According to human rights activists, he has already been released.
Trial outcome 09.01.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Detained for participating in post-election protests and for registering in the Peramoga chat bot. It is known that earlier Andrushkevich was detained on art. 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
Trial outcome 29.08.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
A resident of Minsk. Father of 6 children: 4 boys and 2 girls, aged from 1 to 16 years.
Detained on December 7, 2021 for participating in protests on August 10, 2020 near a supermarket in «Riga», was identified on video. Convicted on June 16, 2022.
Trial outcome 16.06.2022
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions.
Nikita was convicted of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" for his participation in a protest that took place in Minsk on October 25, 2020. He was sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction. Before the trial, he was under a written undertaking not to leave.
Trial outcome 22.09.2021
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Vadim was arrested in June 2021 on charges of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order." The criminal case was opened against him for participating in protests that took place on October 25 and November 1, 2020, in Minsk. In September 2021, he was sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction and released from custody in the courtroom.
Trial outcome 22.09.2021
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Tatyana is a sociologist, expert at the Agency for Humanitarian Technologies and coordinator of the Flying University. She was first detained in August 2021 after a search and placed under arrest for 10 days, but after her release she remained a suspect in the criminal case.
She was detained again on March 23, 2022, the day she came to the Investigative Committee to receive a response to her petition to leave for treatment.
In June 2022, Tatyana was convicted for participating in a protest that took place on October 25, 2020, in Minsk, and sentenced to restriction of freedom with referral to a correctional institution.
She was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 07.06.2022
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Andrei was first convicted in March 2021 for "insulting Lukashenko" and "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom with a referral. However, he didn't have time to serve his sentence in a correctional facility: on May 4, 2021, he was arrested on three additional criminal charges.
In August of that year, Andrei was convicted again – again for insulting Lukashenko – and sentenced to imprisonment.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Rostislav, a former Gorodeya football player, was detained three times — from August 2020 to spring 2021 — and sent to serve administrative arrests. The last time, on May 17, 2021, he was sentenced to 15 days for disobeying the police. However, after serving the sentence, he was not released and was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on charges of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order." A criminal case was opened against Rostislav after a march in Kurapaty, which took place on November 1, 2020. In September 2021, he was sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction and released from custody in the courtroom.
Darya, a TAM.BY manager and RocketData director, was detained on May 18, 2021, as part of a criminal case against TUT.BY, initiated on charges of tax evasion on an especially large scale.
In April 2022, she was convicted under the article "Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them." She was sentenced to imprisonment, but was released in the courtroom, since at the time of sentencing she had already served her entire term in custody during the investigation.
Alexey was detained and convicted twice for comments left about the security forces after the death of Roman Bondarenko on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus". Under pressure, he was forced to unlock his phone. They came to the apartment with a search four times, looking for money, weapons, drugs and prohibited symbols, and also seized the equipment.
In December 2021, Alexey managed to escape from the correctional facility and leave the country.
13.05.2021
Arrived 03.05
13.05.2021
IUTO 24 Grodno. Relatives need help.
Trial outcome 13.04.2021
5 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 6022 rubles of compensation.
Trial outcome 31.05.2021
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 2000 rubles of compensation.
Final verdict by partial addition:
5 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 8022 rubles of compensation.
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