Convicted of insulting Lukashenko A.G.
On 03/01/2024 he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Accused of attacking journalist Azarenka and participating in protests in 2020.
According to the prosecution , Artem Zabelenkov was on Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk on October 11, 2020, where he demanded to stop filming a pro-government TV channel. He also allegedly “used violence against journalist Grigory Azarenka and threatened television cameraman Andrei Ivanenko with violence.” In addition, Artem Zabelenkov is accused of taking an active part in group actions on October 11, 2020, together with other persons, grossly violating public order, resulting in disruption of transport and enterprises.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The defendant is known to have previously run a "banned" blog on YouTube. The case of insulting a representative of the authorities was brought against him back in 2021.
Released from criminal liability due to the expiration of the statute of limitations
Detained for 400 episodes with comments on social networks.
According to the prosecution materials , an employee of the Alliance-Plastic enterprise, Evgeniy Gukov, during the period from October 20 to November 20, 2020, repeatedly posted in the telegram chats “Gagarina Street” and “Vitebsk-97” a video with Alexander Lukashenko’s speech on the channel “Pul Pervogo” ", which was accompanied by offensive and obscene comments using an obscene form of speech.
Also on October 28, on one of the Telegram channels, Evgeniy insulted former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuri Karaev.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year 10 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The man was detained in July 2022. It is known that he worked as a driver at the Gomelsteklo enterprise.
A video of Mikhail’s arrest appeared in pro-government public pages, where the man himself says that he allegedly posted a photo of Lukashenko in “indecent form” on Odnoklassniki. And in the pro-government public, the man was also accused of distributing “extremist materials.”
In the spring of 2024 he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to human rights activists , Yuri was convicted, among other things, for liking and commenting on photographs, posts and videos on social networks.
At the beginning of April 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Detained for comments on the Zeltser case. Former internal affairs officer.
Released after the expiration of the sentence on October 22, 2022.
1 year 7 months in prison
Former lecturer of the Radio engineering College.
Timofey left an offensive comment on social networks regarding the death in September 2021 as a result of a shootout of IT specialist Andrei Zeltser and an employee of the State Security Committee.
In early March 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
04.09.2022 | When the main case was closed (articles 130 and 369), he was also charged with article 293 part 1 for commenting |
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Maxim was detained at the end of September 2020 as part of a criminal case initiated after the murder of IT specialist Andrei Zeltser and State Security Committee employee Dmitry Fedosyuk in the Minsk apartment.
The Court of Appeal reduced Vadim's term by three months.
2 years 9 months in prison.
Convicted for comments.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2023.
1.5 years of imprisonment.
A former student of the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy, he was detained at the end of May 2022.
According to the prosecution , on the evening of August 9, 2020, Ganichev participated in an unauthorized mass event in Zhlobin. At approximately 9:40 p.m., he entered the roadway as part of a crowd, and people densely filled the area between the buildings. At approximately half past one in the morning, protesters obstructed traffic, clapped their hands, shouted loudly, whistled, shouted slogans, and demonstratively refused to comply with the legal demands of government officials.
These actions led to disruption of normal transport, including public transport. In addition, a 24-hour store was forced to close for several hours.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the case materials , in the fall-winter of 2020, Koloshuk left three comments in the telegram channel “Couloirs KUKU”.
On November 17, he, “sharing the ideas of social intolerance towards government officials,” spoke negatively about Alexander Lukashenko.
On December 8, as the court found, Koloshuk insulted the judge of the Frunzensky district court, Krevskaya, in comments, and two days later, the prosecutor of the Gomel region, Viktor Morozov.
January 15, 2021 in the telegram channel “MCB. May Country Belarus” Artyom Koloshuk left a negative review about the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus Pavel Muraveiko.
It is known that before his arrest, Koloshuk lived with his grandmother and worked in Moscow. He also has health problems - he cannot hear in one ear.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1). 8 months years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
2). 2 years and 8 months of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Taking into account the previous punishment, in the form of 8 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony, the final sentence is 2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
From the day of detention, on May 5, Koloshuk will be credited with days of stay in jail for a day and a half.
He is an employee of a hardware factory.
Convicted for a video in which he condemns Lukashenko's actions during the war. The video was accidentally uploaded by his daughter to social networks.
In the fall of 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
1 year and 3 months of imprisonment.
Anesthesiologist-resuscitator at the Minsk Scientific and Practical Center for Surgery, Transplantology and Hematology.
In the “repentance” video, a 35-year-old woman says that she was detained because of comments on the Internet - she allegedly insulted police officers.
She was convicted at the end of December 2022.
She was released in May 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
18.03.2024 | Адвокат Пархимчик Галина Сергеевна https://dissidentby.com/prisoners/galina-sergeevna-parhimchik |
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Trial outcome 12.08.2022: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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