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Convicted of insulting a government official .
On January 24, 2023, a trial to commute Sergei's sentence was held in the Kamenets District Court. Judge Oksana Shkel rejected the Correctional Institution's motion to transfer him to a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2025.
According to the investigation, Alexander Pugach from October 2020 to March 2022 insulted the head of state, as well as government officials, including the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus, in connection with the performance of their official duties in Telegram.
Judge Ruslan Tsaruk appointed, in addition to imprisonment, compensation for moral damage in the amount of 10 000 BYN and 3 200 BYN.
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In early September, the Telegram channel of the volunteer initiative "Lists of Detainees" published information about the detention of an entire family : Yan, Anastasia and Ales Papkovich. Anastasia was released. And Yan and Ales were transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1. During the detention, Ales' phone and equipment were taken away. As a result, one photo from the 2020 march was found. For it, the guy was given 2 years in prison.
Ales has been interested in music since childhood, - says the brother of the political prisoner. - He knows many Belarusian performers, played with some of them. For example, he performed with cover bands in Minsk clubs, performed with the group "D-Major" as a violinist. The last two years before his arrest were especially creative for Ales - he wrote several lyrics for songs, music for them, made recordings. Ales sings in Belarusian.
10.06.2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Stepan is 23 years old, he is a resident of Novolukoml. He was accused of having made extremist inscriptions on the pipeline of the Lukoml power station in March of this year, and two months later painted images of white-red-white and blue-yellow flags on the surface of an artillery piece installed on the territory of a military burial in the village of Starie Lavki of the Chashniki district.
She was detained in the Zeltser case (for comments); the charge was later reclassified .
On November 1, 2022, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
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He was the director and head coach of the branch of the kickboxing and Thai boxing club "Patriot" in Borisov.
Sentenced to 2 months of arrest for posting a caricature of A.G. Lukashenko on the VKontakte social network on August 17, 2020, which allegedly "in its semantic content reflected a negative assessment of the personality" of A.G. Lukashenko, as well as "sharp criticism of the socio-political situation". According to the expert who conducted the "forensic cultural examination", the caricature discredited the state power in the person of A.G. Lukashenko.
After his release, Nikolai was brought to administrative responsibility in May 2023 for storing Belsat's publication on a page on the Odnoklassniki social network. Nikolai did not admit guilt. He was sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
He was convicted for posting a comment about police officers in a public chat in September 2021.
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.
According to the prosecution , from May to November 2021, Alexander "posted offensive comments about Lukashenko on various Internet resources."
The man also left offensive texts in obscene language regarding the Chairman of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus Ivan Tertel, the Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission Lyudmila Yermoshina, deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus, as well as a prosecutor.
According to human rights activists , he will be released at the end of May 2025.
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.
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Ivan Muravyov is 43 years old. At one time, he was at the origins of the STV TV channel, but for the last ten years he has been engaged in managing the famous hookah bar «Kaliannaya No. 1» on Karl Marx Street.
Detained the Investigative Committee in a hookah bar. Muravyov did not participate in the protests of 2020 (but he had an administrative arrest. He turned out to be a random victim who was dragged out of the car by law enforcement officers during the protests).
The trial was held behind closed doors.
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
He was accused that on September 20, 2020, he took part in a protest action and went out on the roadway on Timiryazev Street in Minsk.
The Prosecutor, in the interests of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise «Minsktrans», a lawsuit was filed for compensation for property damage in the amount of 47 716,07 BYN.
At the court hearing, Levchuk fully admitted his guilt.
In this criminal case, he was detained from February 15, 2022 to February 25, 2022, from March 17, 2022 to March 20, 2022, and from May 16, 2022 until the announcement of the verdict (August 11, 2022) was in detention.
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.