According to the case materials, in August 2020, a member of the group chat used his mobile phone to post messages from his account containing statements of an inciting nature and calls for physical violence against law enforcement officers.
On August 15, 2020 and February 12, 2021, he posted offensive comments in a Telegram chat about the president, as well as the military commissar of the Gomel region, Andrei Krivonosov.
He was released in June 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted of insulting a government official - the famous traffic police officer from Gantsevichi, Igor Volnich.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in December 2023.
1,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Karaban Denis is accused at trial of leaving the following comment in the VK group “BAD NEWS BELARUS”: “A*uenchik, it’s high time to bring them down.”
The investigation and the state prosecution regard this statement as the commission of a crime under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code, i.e. inciting hostility (against law enforcement officers).
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the beginning of June 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2,5 years of imprisonment.
Convicted for calling 102 in August 2021 and speaking out about the dictator (A. G. Lukashenko).
According to estimates of human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
An activist of the Mothers 328 movement, she sent many complaints about the illegal detention of her son and his sentencing under a criminal article.
She was detained for “slander” and sentenced to 4 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to the IWOT. She served her sentence in IUOT-1. On April 12, 2024, a court hearing was held to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a colony for 10 months.
10 months imprisonment
According to the case materials , in January 2021, Gavrilov purchased and provided two acquaintances, Tatyana and Oleg Birulya, with aerosol cans of paint. After which, from January to February 2021, the latter applied inscriptions and drawings to various infrastructure objects in Soligorsk, "causing them to become damaged." They also applied an inscription to the wall of one of the houses regarding Lukashenko, "in which they accused him of a particularly serious crime, that is, they committed slander."
Then, from August to December 2021, the accused distributed leaflets and other printed materials in Soligorsk . The content of these leaflets was allegedly aimed at inciting social hatred and discord on the basis of a different social affiliation.
At the end of winter 2024, it became known that Tatyana was being transferred to a prison in Zhodino.
Trial outcome 12.12.2022: 6 years of imprisonment under general regime conditions.
Appeal 07.04.2023: the sentence was upheld.
For comments in the Telegram channel. The victims were the chairman of the Volkovysk district executive committee, Mikhail Sitko (the only one who did not file a claim for compensation for moral damage), OMON policemen of the Grodno Internal Affairs Directorate Daria Bondarchuk and Maria Mazurkevich, head of the police department of the Volkovysk district police department Valery Romanchik, head of the Volkovysk district police department Vitaly Osotsky. In total, the victims estimated their moral suffering at 5,000 rubles - while the accused has a pension of 500 rubles. The woman in the last word said that imprisonment would be a "death sentence" for her, but judge Andrei Tolochko sentenced her to 2.5 years in prison.
She was released on September 20, 2022 by pardon.
2.5 years in a general regime colony
Igor is accused of making 7 inscriptions on the facades of buildings from April to December 2021. Two of these inscriptions insulted Lukashenko.
During the court session, the accused fully admitted his guilt.
In the fall of 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
She was convicted of spray-painting images of the white-white flag on various surfaces in the city.
Detained again for comment in 2021.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in January 2024 upon expiration of her sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime and penalty 6400 BYN.
Convicted of insulting the prosecutor of the city of Novogrudok Shlyazhko A.V. in the telegram channel «Karateli Belarus» on November 24, 2020.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to investigators, on August 12, 2020 Oleg Dmitrachenko in vk.ru under the publication: «The official Sergei Stashevsky forced the members of the commission to forge the protocol» in the group «Eto Vitebsk, detka» («This is Vitebsk, baby») left a comment of offensive content.
According to human rights activists, he was released in June 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the case file, Artyom Prigozhaev and Gleb Lyogky on the evening of November 15, 2021, being drunk, tore the national flag of the Republic of Belarus from the building of one of the city's schools and waved it. Then they threw him to the ground, and Gleb threw a cigarette butt at him.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the indictment, in August 2021, he and Yaroslav Geben tore the national flag from one of the stores and took indecent photographs with it and filmed a video.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the case file, Artyom Prigozhaev and Gleb Lyogky on the evening of November 15, 2021, being drunk, tore the national flag of the Republic of Belarus from the building of one of the city's schools and waved it. Then they threw him to the ground, and Artyom trampled on him.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
40 years old, director of a private unitary enterprise, two children.
They are on trial for insulting the president, 3 police officers and a former paratrooper.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in 2023.
| 13.10.2023 | Освобожден по подсчетам |
| 05.10.2023 | Должны были освободить |
2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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