In 2020, an audio recording was published on YouTube in which Stashevsky put pressure on teachers from the election commission to falsify the voting results by mutually swapping the number of votes for Lukashenko and Tikhanovskaya. After this, he was removed from the post of head of the Oktyabrsky district administration of the city of Vitebsk and appointed deputy head of the Republican Center for Hydrometeorology, Radioactive Pollution Control and Environmental Monitoring.
In 2020, an audio recording was published on YouTube in which Stashevsky put pressure on teachers from the election commission to falsify the voting results by mutually swapping the number of votes for Lukashenko and Tikhanovskaya. After this, he was removed from the post of head of the Oktyabrsky district administration of the city of Vitebsk and appointed deputy head of the Republican Center for Hydrometeorology, Radioactive Pollution Control and Environmental Monitoring.
Alexander was convicted for a comment under a post about Sergei Stashevsky, head of the Oktyabrsky District Administration in Vitebsk, who, according to the publication, forced teachers to rewrite election protocols. This was not the first trial in Vitebsk for insulting Stashevsky.
According to human rights activists, Alexander was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 21.07.2021
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Artem was convicted for a comment left on VKontakte under a video about official Sergei Stashevsky, who was reported to have forced members of the election commission to falsify protocols. Artem was initially given "house arrest", but after a prosecutor's protest, the sentence was changed to "chemistry" with a referral to a correctional facility.
He was released in October 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Prosecutor's protest 19.03.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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