The resident of Brest was accused of writing 2 comments under a video with Lukashenko on May 24, 2021, in the Facebook group “People’s Verdict”. One message said “sick person”, the second “schizophrenic”.
On May 16, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she was released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
A taxi driver who was harshly detained by riot police at the end of January 2023 while he was waiting for an order near the bus station. Friends had been waiting for Roman since “days”, as they knew that he was detained for old likes on the Odnoklassniki social network. But then it turned out that the man was detained under Art. 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 21, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to estimates, the human rights defender will be released at the end of 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
20 year old Vladislav was accused of taking photos and videos of military equipment, military personnel, as well as a military airfield in Bobruisk from February 24 to February 25, 2022.
Then Vladislav forwarded at least 9 video files and photos to a telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 27.03.2023: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the prosecution, Dzyuba left publications that humiliated the honor and dignity of Lukashenko and contained an obscene form of linguistic expression in relation to him.
He also posted publications with photos of policemen on social networks, accompanied them with a text with a negative assessment. Among them were images of employees of temporary detention facilities with a swastika, Lukashenko with an improvised gallows.
The man pleaded guilty in full. He said that he had reposted the information on Facebook.com.
All the victims stated that the publication caused them moral harm.
In the spring of 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Trial outcome 08.12.2022: 5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine.
EPAM employee. It is known that Andrei was searched, the reason for the detention was supposedly donations to aid funds.
Andrei was kept for 2 months in a pre-trial detention center, after which the case was closed , since there was no evidence of his guilt, and he was released.
IT specialist.
Ruslan is charged with financing extremist activities.
According to his Linkedin profile, Ruslan has been working for Netcracker for the last 6 years.
Previously, for some time he was a volunteer for the Protection of Birds of the Fatherland.
On June 23, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 04.04.2023: 3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 23.06.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Orthodontist. Detained for comments.
There is a hearing disability. There is a need for replacement hearing aids.
On June 20, 2023, an appeal hearing was held.
Trial outcome 27.04.2023: 3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 20.06.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Convicted of insulting Lukashenko.
On June 20, 2023, an appellate court hearing was held, and the verdict came into force.
At the beginning of June 2024 he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years in prison.
According to the prosecution , on February 13, 2023, Igor Svirida, while in the Compulsory Enforcement Department (COI), “... provided a department employee with a handwritten explanation of the reasons for non-payment of fines imposed by the court for committing various administrative offenses, in which he deliberately and publicly wrote the text, in the content of which, in an offensive form, he expressed a negative assessment of the president’s personality, presented in the form of an obscene form of speech expression...”
On the same day, when a squad of employees of the Security Department was called to the enforcement department to detain him, he again publicly insulted A.G. Lukashenko. The investigation claims that Igor Svirida was allegedly intoxicated in the premises of the OPI.
During the court hearing, he partially admitted his guilt.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 upon expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the case file, Tamara Karavai in December 2022 via a messenger on a social network ok.ru posted slanderous information about Alexander Lukashenko.
At the hearing, Karavai fully admitted her guilt, but refused to testify.
It is known that Tamara Karavai has a dependent juvenile child.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
And the court also decided to apply compulsory safety measures and treatment for chronic alcoholism to the woman at the place of serving her sentence.
He was detained on January 9, 2023 as part of a criminal case opened in Brest based on the events of September 13, 2020, when during a protest, people danced in a circle on the roadway (the so-called “round dance case”).
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Dmitry was detained by employees of the State Security Committee on March 21, 2023.
He was accused of donating to organizations supporting Belarusians. Dmitry is accused of about 10 episodes.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Yaroslav Kazakevich, a 27 year old resident of Orsha, accused of facilitating extremist activities.
According to the case materials, on December 8, 2022, the accused made a video file using a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone at the railway station «Orsha-Tsentralnaya», on which an echelon with Russian military equipment was recorded. Then Kazakevich, being in the carriage of a train of regional lines, distributed through the Internet the named video file in the Telegram channel, the information products of which had previously been recognized by the court as extremist materials.
On December 9, 2022, Yaroslav was detained by police officers and arrested by the Orsha district court for 15 days for the production and distribution of extremist materials. He was never released again.
On June 6, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.
Trial outcome 04.04.2023: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 04.04.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Initially, Vladislav was detained in the administrative case 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for 15 days, during which he was charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus . A photo from marches in Minsk was found on his phone.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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