According to the state prosecution , in June 2021, Dmitry Gorbunov wrote a comment on the Internet under a photograph of Lida police officer Anton Anatolyevich Kotilo with the word “asshole”.
Opposition Telegram channels wrote about Kotilo that he participated in the arrest of activist Vitold Ashurka (the activist later died in prison).
The public insult to Lukashenko, according to the prosecution, also occurred on the Internet in August 2022.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 17.03.2023:
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
It is known from the prosecution materials that Kushnarev, using a mobile phone from August 2020 to February 2022, repeatedly posted publications on his page on the ok.ru, which contained insults to the President, the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus and the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus in connection with the performance of their duties.
At the same time, at the discretion of the court, deliberately false and untrue data were given in the publications, discrediting and degrading the honor and dignity of the victims.
Citizen of the Russian Federation. According to the indictment , in August 2022, Shakirov intentionally posted a comment containing signs of verbal aggression in a duly recognized extremist Telegram group (chat) in order to obstruct the lawful activities of an employee of the internal affairs bodies and out of revenge for the performance of official duties by the head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, N. N. Karpenkov.
On June 9, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
It is known that on December 10, 2022, Dmitry, while intoxicated, tore the national flag from the building of the Tsevli railway station and broke the pole. This was recorded by CCTV cameras.
The man was detained. Dmitry admitted his guilt.
The hearing of the appeal is scheduled for April 21, 2023 in the Brest Regional Court.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
The man was accused of leaving a comment in Belarusian in the corporate chat of one of the social networks of a large freight transportation company, in which he explained that: “our flag is white-red-white”; and called today’s: “sunrise over a swamp.”
Pavel wrote the comment while he was in Western Europe on a flight after which he returned to Belarus.
Pavel Dubov from Minsk, married, has a child under three. The man filed an appeal against the sentence to the regional court.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 16.03.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Convicted for comments and reposts of videos on social media that were allegedly offensive and defamatory towards government officials Lukashenko A.G.
In early June 2022, he illegally collected information about the private life and personal data of an employee of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate, after which he published it in the Telegram chat "Novaya Borovaya 98%."
After the trial, he was held in Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 and transferred to another pretrial detention center to await his appeal. The appellate court ruled that Roman's sentence was reduced by six months.
He was released in the winter of 2026.
Trial outcome 10.03.2023
4 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 16.05.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
He owns his own business in the construction industry. Alexander was convicted under the article "Organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" for participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020 and was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open facility.
He was pardoned in November 2024.
Trial outcome 21.02.2023
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Dmitry was found guilty that from November 25, 2020 to April 4, 2021, he left offensive comments in the telegram channel «Karateli Belarusi» towards the authorities. Investigators found at least 15 such statements, for which the man was tried.
29.05.2023
При поступлении в ИУОТ -49 г. Шклова был сразу поставлен на профучет с формулировкой "склонен к экстремизму и деструктивной деятельности"
Trial outcome 15.02.2023
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
39 year old Irena is a specialist of the Minsk City Agency for State Registration and Land Cadastre, she was detained in the summer of 2022. It is known that the woman has 4 minor children. Slander was charged with four articles of the Criminal Code.
Trial outcome 28.03.2023
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
32 year old Maxim was detained in early February 2023 after returning to Belarus from abroad. He is charged with «people's» art. 342 of the Criminal Code.
In 2020, Maxim worked as a firefighter and warned residents when the Ministry of Emergency Situations went to remove flags.
Dmitry was found guilty of failing to report a well-known person who committed a particularly serious crime and the location of such a person in the case of blowing up a police car at the Central police Department building in Minsk.
The man has a higher education and works as a driver in a private company. He has six children, three of whom are minors. One of them is two years old.
Dmitry was accused of leaving offensive comments in a Telegram chat in January 2022 regarding the Minsk prosecutor, the captain of the Minsk traffic police, the captain of the Bobruisk OMON police, the judge of the Leninsky District Court of Grodno, a police major, the deputy head of law enforcement and prevention of the Frunzensky District Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk, and OMON police sergeants of the Mogilev Regional Department of Internal Affairs.
He is expectedto be released on March 14, 2025.
Trial outcome 02.03.2023
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 07.04.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 10.05.2023
unknown.
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