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.
According to the prosecution , from January to December 2021, Pavel Voropai posted comments in various Telegram channels with insults against the Chairperson of the Central Commission for Elections and Holding Republican Referendums Lidiya Yermoshina, the Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Natalia Kochanova, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei, the Prosecutor General of Belarus Andrei Shved, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Korzyuk, the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Olga Chemodanova, the head of the Vitebsk customs Pavel Lobachev, as well as a prosecutor, a judge of one of the capital's districts and other government officials.
He is expected to be released in the spring of 2025.
Trial outcome 30.08.2022
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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
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.
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.
Trial outcome 25.08.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Telegram channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus published the news that a 32 year old man allegedly insulted Lukashenko in the comments (the comment consists of only one word «trash», written under the news with a quote from Lukashenko that special services with vast experience are working against us today) .
The second charge also concerns Sergey's Internet activity. According to the prosecution, no later than 14:39 on February 27, 2022, the man sent a photo of the bulletin with two checkmarks to the NEXTA telegram bot. Thus, according to the prosecution, Sergey committed a crime under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Promotion of extremist activity).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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