Gomel City Prosecutor's Office. Senior Assistant Prosecutor. Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Olesya Valentinovna Zhuravleva is an employee of government agencies involved in politically motivated repression. Responsible for initiating criminal cases against citizens who spoke out against falsifications and violence, and refusing to initiate criminal cases of violence, murder, and property damage by law enforcement officers. She served as the state prosecutor in the case of Grigory Vasilenko, who replaced the red-and-green flag with a white-red-white one. He was sentenced to two years of restricted freedom and sent to an open facility. She acted as a victim in the case of Vladimir Nepomnyashchikh. The man was initially charged under Article 369 of the Criminal Code for publicly insulting Olesya Zhuravleva, assistant city prosecutor. The article was later replaced with Article 366 of the Criminal Code, classifying his actions as "violence or threat against a public official." Vladimir was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, and Zhuravleva received a thousand rubles, which were collected from the man.
Gomel City Prosecutor's Office. Senior Assistant Prosecutor. Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Olesya Valentinovna Zhuravleva is an employee of government agencies involved in politically motivated repression. Responsible for initiating criminal cases against citizens who spoke out against falsifications and violence, and refusing to initiate criminal cases of violence, murder, and property damage by law enforcement officers. She served as the state prosecutor in the case of Grigory Vasilenko, who replaced the red-and-green flag with a white-red-white one. He was sentenced to two years of restricted freedom and sent to an open facility. She acted as a victim in the case of Vladimir Nepomnyashchikh. The man was initially charged under Article 369 of the Criminal Code for publicly insulting Olesya Zhuravleva, assistant city prosecutor. The article was later replaced with Article 366 of the Criminal Code, classifying his actions as "violence or threat against a public official." Vladimir was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, and Zhuravleva received a thousand rubles, which were collected from the man.
Kirill, an engineer, was found guilty in May 2021 of criminal hooliganism committed by a group of persons for replacing the red-green flag with a white-red-white one during a protest on August 16, 2020, in Gomel.
Trial outcome 12.05.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Georgy was arrested and sentenced to two years of imprisonment in an open-type correctional facility for replacing the national flag with a white-red-white one.
On February 15, 2022, he was again detained in a "chemistry" by KGB officers and charged with a new crime. According to the case materials, while in the correctional facility, Vasilenko posted offensive comments about Lukashenko in a group chat.
In June 2022, he was re-sentenced to one and a half years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. Taking into account the unserved sentence, the judge sentenced him to a total term of one year and seven months.
In July 2023, Georgy was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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