A riot police officer with the Minsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate. Senior police sergeant. A victim in the case of Elena Sborshchikova. Elena was sentenced to two years of restricted freedom without being sent to a closed correctional facility for insulting a government official under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. She was also ordered to pay 1,000 rubles in compensation to the "victim."
A riot police officer with the Minsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate. Senior police sergeant. A victim in the case of Elena Sborshchikova. Elena was sentenced to two years of restricted freedom without being sent to a closed correctional facility for insulting a government official under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. She was also ordered to pay 1,000 rubles in compensation to the "victim."
Svetlana was found guilty in March 2021 of a criminal case opened under the article on insulting a government official. According to the charges, on October 26, 2020, she left the comment "Shoot yourself, b*tch" under a photo of Minsk Regional Executive Committee OMON Sergeant Vitaly Fyodorov on Facebook "with the intent to humiliate the honor and dignity of both the victim personally and the entire Ministry of Internal Affairs." In addition to her restricted freedom, Svetlana was also ordered to pay compensation for moral damages to the "victim."
Trial outcome 24.03.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1500 rubles of compensation.
Elena was found guilty in March 2021 of insulting a government official for her comment, "Small ISIS, a tribunal is just around the corner," addressed to Vitaly Fyodorov, a senior sergeant with the Minsk City Executive Committee's OMON police department, under a Facebook post in which she wrote that he would be happy to kill people. Elena pleaded not guilty at the trial.
Trial outcome 30.03.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
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