A figurant of the "round dance business" in Brest. On April 22, 2022, the sentence ended.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
In March 2021 , the guy was arrested during a couple and taken to the Lida pre-trial detention center. The next day, security forces came to the dormitory where he lived, interrogated the neighbors and confiscated their equipment. The freshman was accused of violence against police officers in August 2020.
08.11.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
Trial outcome 06.01.2023: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment under general regime conditions.
resident of Bobruisk. Dmitry has two children, he is deprived of parental rights and pays alimony. The man was taken into custody in the courtroom on June 10, 2021 after the verdict was announced.
According to human rights activists, in June 2022, Dmitry completely served his sentence.
1 year in prison .
resident of Molodechno, has two minor children. According to the indictment, on August 9, Biryuk publicly insulted Alexander Lukashenko on the Central Square in Molodechno (at that time a protest was taking place), thereby humiliating his honor and dignity. April 23, 2021 taken into custody during the announcement of the verdict.
According to human rights activists, in October 2022 he served his sentence in full.
1.5 imprisonment .
Convicted on April 14, 2021 for insulting the head of the Grodno OMON Kravtsevich.
06/07/2023 was released after the expiration of the sentence.
2 years of restriction of freedom.
A resident of the agricultural town of Lapichi. According to the accusation, Gennady insulted the police officer T. Pakhomenko in the comments, because on the video in the networks this officer beat the detained people standing at the wall.
Gennady was fired from his job after being detained. Has children.
The court awarded the payment of compensation for non-pecuniary damage to the "victim" 1087 rubles
According to estimates by human rights activists, he was released in July 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
2 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution.
On September 3, 2020, after the death of Gennady Shutov (whom he knew!), Yuri decided to express his opinion about what was happening. Being drunk, the man thought, they say, why walk with flags, I’ll take it and call 102, I’ll speak out. And dialed the police number. On the same day, the man was detained and beaten. As Yuri explained, his ribs and jaw were broken. And in addition, he received an arrest for a period of 7 days. When asked in court whether he filed a complaint about the beating, he answered in the negative: they say, he is not an important person, and he "knew what he got for." He fully admitted his guilt under the article for "insulting the president".
28.12. 2022 released after the expiration of the sentence.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with a referral.
resident of Baranovichi, worked as a driver before his arrest. By the verdict of the court of the Baranovichi district and the city of Baranovichi. Mikhail Dobysh was found guilty of the fact that on September 17, 2020, in the premises of a grocery store, in order to obstruct legal activities and out of revenge for the performance of his official activities, an employee of the internal affairs bodies, police major I. Mitsura, made a threat of violence against I. Mitsura, expressed in " psychological impact and intimidation, suppression of his will when personally uttering verbal threats about the use of physical violence, while the victim had real reasons to fear the implementation of these threats. On July 25, 2022, the punishment regime was tightened, Mikhail was transferred to a colony until the end of his term.
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
3 years of restriction of freedom . The final term after the trial on July 25, 2022 is 10 months in prison.
A resident of Zhlobin, who was detained on June 2 as part of a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order.
He was detained on August 10, 2020 and severely beaten during the arrest. Nikolai then ended up in the hospital with a traumatic brain injury, where he lay for two weeks. Then he was twice summoned for interrogation in criminal cases of insulting the flag and riots.
On September 23, 2022, he was released after the expiration of the sentence.
1.5 years in prison .
A resident of Pruzhany, a defendant in the Brest "round dance case", initiated by the events of September 13, 2020 in the city (when the protesters took to the roadway, and they were dispersed by a water cannon).
1 year and 7 months of imprisonment in a penal colony .
In September 2022, Oleg was released after the expiration of his sentence.
became a defendant in the case of mass riots in Brest on August 10.
During the investigation of the case, Romanov left the country and was in Russia, and in Belarus he was put on the wanted list. He was detained on the evening of June 4 in the Ivyevsky district while trying to cross the Belarusian-Lithuanian border to move to the European Union.
On June 8, he was transferred to a pretrial detention facility.
07/20/2024 released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
3.5 years in prison under enhanced regime.
defendants in the case of mass riots in Brest on August 10.
Detained on April 2, 2021 and taken into custody in a pre-trial detention center pending trial.
05/02/2024 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3.5 years in prison under enhanced regime.
Inhabitant of Leeds. He was an observer at the elections, and after the elections he helped the victims and those dismissed for political reasons.
He was on a hunger strike for 32 days in jail. He did not admit his guilt. They awarded 6,000 rubles for moral damages to the "victim". There are 3 children in Igor's family, one of them has cerebral palsy.
In IK-1, strong pressure was put on Igor, torture was used.
On August 25, 2022, a trial was held to toughen the punishment for Igor: by decision of judge Vitaly Lapko, the political prisoner was transferred to a prison regime in Mogilev.
09.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
06.07.2021 | Awarded 10,000 rubles. moral damage |
Convicted on March 15, 2021 for the events of December 6, 2020. Allegedly, he left a dent in the special transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
32-year-old Alexander Bazhkov was accused of deliberately writing inscriptions on the building of the colony in Orsha while intoxicated. As "the means of committing the crime" he used "an unidentified brush, gloves, and red paint." His actions caused damage of 77 rubles 50 kopecks.
3 months of arrest . He began serving his sentence on June 28, 2021. Released September 29, 2021.
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