Vyacheslav was accused of "uttering phrases degrading the honor and dignity" of A. Lukashenko while intoxicated and in the presence of police officers. Recordings from the police officers' dashcams were later used in court as evidence of Solodkiy's guilt. It is not specified what words Vyacheslav used.
On 18.08.2024, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 09.06.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Safanovich was accused of writing messages in a Telegram chat on October 25, 2020, calling for road closures. According to the prosecution and the court, in his first message, Safanovich "called for active participation in group actions in the Luninets district that grossly violate public order," i.e. Safanovich allegedly committed a crime under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Safanovich was also charged under Part 1 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, i.e. public slander against Lukashenko. As follows from the article of the state publication, Safanovich wrote a second message in the same chat on August 13, 2020, under a photo of a tearful woman leaving Okrestina. The caption to the video was as follows : "Confession of a Belarusian girl who was in the dungeons of Lukashenko's Gestapo. Do I understand correctly that Lukashenko became the second after Hitler to attack the people of Belarus?"
On July 18, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released on December 23, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 02.06.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Valentina was first convicted in May 2021 for “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order” in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. At that time, the participants were singing and dancing in a circle, and a water cannon was used against them.
In April 2024, it became known that Valentina was detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest against falsifications in the presidential elections. In August of the same year, she was sentenced to imprisonment, counting the previously imposed punishment in the form of "house arrest" towards her term.
She was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 07.05.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, unknown rubles of compensation.
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