A pensioner, a resident of Grodno, Jozef Nemero participated in a protest march in Grodno on September 6 and defended a woman from the brutal actions of the riot police. At the same time, he pushed one of the policemen. This was the reason for the initiation of the case. First, he was sentenced to 2 and a half years of "home chemistry", and then his sentence was changed to 1 year and 6 months in prison.
1 year and 6 months colony
A resident of Orsha, has two minor children. Convicted under Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official). He was found guilty of insulting the head of the Orsha Inspectorate for Juvenile Affairs Vishnevsky in a comment in the chat "Orsha 97%" in a telegram. On September 15, 21, he was pardoned.
| 01.06.2021 | I am registered as prone to extremist and other destructive activities |
Sentenced to 1.5 years of restriction of freedom with direction to an open type correctional facility
Aliaksandr was accused of trying to drive a car over two employees of the Volkovysk police in order to interfere with their work during an unauthorized event on August 9 after 11 pm. At the end of March, the Volkovysk district court sentenced Potapovich to 2 years and 6 months of “chemistry”. But the state prosecutor decided to challenge the verdict of the court of first instance, and on June 1, the Grodno regional court made a new decision to replace the sentence with 2 years and 6 months in prison.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
2. 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
According to the prosecution, Sinkevich, in the period from August 31 to October 30, 2020, being the administrator of the Minsk. Road closure. Chat”, posted articles in it with instructions for blocking traffic. In addition, according to the public prosecutor, he was engaged in the search for persons for illegal actions and directly supervised them.
According to estimates by human rights activists, in the summer of 2022, he fully served his sentence.
2 years in prison under enhanced regime.
Vyacheslav Ulasevich was found guilty of the fact that on April 3, 2021, at about 5.25-5.26 in the morning, he removed the flag from the building on Lenin Street while intoxicated. After that, he carried it for some distance and threw it on the ground, which caused the shaft to break into three parts and the cloth was damaged: the damage in the amount of 2 rubles 44 kopecks was fully compensated by the accused.
1 year restriction of freedom with a referral. Released on June 9, 2022 after the expiration of his sentence.
Activist from Gomel. He was arrested on May 28th. The police searched his apartment. Released on July 18, 2022 after the expiration of the sentence.
Activist from Gomel. Security forces conducted a search in his apartment, where he lives with his parents. Before this, Stanislav Mochalov was arrested three times under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus for participating in rallies. Stanislav was accused of participating in a hitch at the Solidarity March on September 20 in Gomel. He refused to sign a petition for pardon and defends his rights, even in difficult conditions of imprisonment, despite health problems. Stanislav was left without care for a minor daughter and elderly parents, his father is disabled.
On December 30, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
3 years in prison.
Ruslan was accused of distributing leaflets in the city by posting them, which contained “knowingly false” information that slandered the police officers.
On May 4, 2023, he was released under an amnesty, 3 weeks before the end of his term.
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
Detained on April 14, 2021 at the border with Lithuania. He is accused of insulting Balaba, the commander of the Minsk OMON, in the “Vitebsk_South” chat.
On November 7, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
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| 01.07.2021 | Dropped out of SIZO-2, return letter marked |
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
A 53-year-old resident of Pruzhany, convicted of insulting the president. She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.
1 year in prison .
Resident of Krasnopolye (Mogilev region), fourth-year student of the Gomel State Technical University. Convicted of insulting the president.
On September 25, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
| 30.08.2021 | Postponed consideration of the replacement of punishment until the end of the term |
| 30.08.2021 | They have not removed the violation for not shaving for five months, although there are reports of encouragement |
| 30.08.2021 | At the commission on the replacement of punishment, the entire administration refused to transfer to home chemistry |
| 29.08.2021 | Do not remove from prof. Accounting for half a year |
| 30.05.2021 | Registered as an extremist |
1.5 years of restriction of freedom .
Convicted of insulting a government official.
In March 2022, Aleksey was replaced with a penal colony for a period of 8 months and 23 days.
According to human rights activists, in December 2022 he served his sentence in full.
| 22.11.2021 | On March 21, 2021, he was put on preventive records as prone to extremist and other destructive activities, as well as hostage-taking, attacks on the administration and manifestations of aggression. |
| 02.09.2021 | 03/22/2021 was registered as prone to extremist and other destructive actions, as well as prone to taking hostages, attacking the administration and displaying aggression |
2.5 years of restriction of freedom .
Ilya Gagiev was detained on March 11, 2021. A young man from a large family: in addition to him, there are three more children in the family. His mother is a bedridden person with a disability. Ilya's 22-year-old sister takes care of her when, like him, he is the only breadwinner in the family: his younger brothers, who are 18 and 16, do not work. Ilya Gagiev is accused of being on the roadway of Pobediteley Avenue in the city of Minsk from 16:00 on August 9 to 3:10 on August 10, 2020.
| 27.05.2021 | Testimony in court: Nothing. Well, I’m showing that I’m only for, and not suprats our arrangements. Kali would I have intended to have a chymtsі ўzelnіchats, I would have a creature. About the hitch in which he stood: hell of people, like a flock of pobach, admiring the peragar, there the pit became a shameful flock of them. |
3 years of chemistry with a referral to an open institution .
A resident of the Vitebsk region, was detained and convicted for commenting on the social network Vkontakte under a photo of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Konstantin has 3 small children (4 years, 3 years and 9 months).
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.
On June 18, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
On May 23, 2021, Sofya Sapega and Roman Protasevich were detained in Minsk - they were flying from Athens to Vilnius, but the plane made an emergency landing in Belarus after a false report of a bomb on board. The trial was held behind closed doors. As a result, the girl was charged under two articles (initially there were seven).
During the trial in Grodno, Sophia was ordered to pay compensation to the victims for moral damage in the amount of 167,500 rubles (more than 65 thousand dollars) and a court fee of 7,488 rubles.
06/07/2023 was pardoned.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
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