According to official information , in 2020, a man posted a screenshot on social networks that showed a frame from the protests in August 2020 on Sovetskaya Street in Gomel. He accompanied the post with a text in which he called the security forces “subhumans” and expressed the hope that they “will be held accountable for crimes against their people.”
In the fall of 2021, the man was facing an administrative case “for distributing information products containing calls for extremist activity.”
On November 28, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Nichiporko is accused of more than 30 criminal episodes. In particular, in September 2020, he spray-painted fences in the village of Niva in the Berezovsky district, bus stops, garages and buildings in the city of Bereza, pasted leaflets on city poles, painted the entrance doors and the facade of the house of a police officer, stole almost two dozen surveillance cameras, ruined the facades of high-rise buildings with liquid with the content of petroleum products, shredded several state flags of the Republic of Belarus.
Former International Secretary of the BSDP. was detained on October 21, 2021 and until mid-December was kept in the KGB pre-trial detention center as part of a criminal case on terrorism. Then the charge was reclassified to Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. At the trial, it turned out that the term of imprisonment in the KGB pre-trial detention center would not be counted. The term of serving the sentence is considered from December 16, 2021.
On February 20, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 14.05.2022
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
was detained on October 21, 2021 and until mid-December was kept in the KGB pre-trial detention center as part of a criminal case on terrorism. Then the charge was reclassified to Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. At the trial, it turned out that the term of imprisonment in the KGB pre-trial detention center would not be counted. The term of serving the sentence is considered from December 16, 2021.
On February 20, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
According to the case materials, in August 2020, a member of the group chat used his mobile phone to post messages from his account containing statements of an inciting nature and calls for physical violence against law enforcement officers.
On August 15, 2020 and February 12, 2021, he posted offensive comments in a Telegram chat about the president, as well as the military commissar of the Gomel region, Andrei Krivonosov.
He was released in June 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Karaban Denis is accused at trial of leaving the following comment in the VK group “BAD NEWS BELARUS”: “A*uenchik, it’s high time to bring them down.”
The investigation and the state prosecution regard this statement as the commission of a crime under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code, i.e. inciting hostility (against law enforcement officers).
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the beginning of June 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
An activist of the Mothers 328 movement, she sent many complaints about the illegal detention of her son and his sentencing under a criminal article.
She was detained for “slander” and sentenced to 4 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to the IWOT. She served her sentence in IUOT-1. On April 12, 2024, a court hearing was held to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a colony for 10 months.
According to the case materials , in January 2021, Gavrilov purchased and provided two acquaintances, Tatyana and Oleg Birulya, with aerosol cans of paint. After which, from January to February 2021, the latter applied inscriptions and drawings to various infrastructure objects in Soligorsk, "causing them to become damaged." They also applied an inscription to the wall of one of the houses regarding Lukashenko, "in which they accused him of a particularly serious crime, that is, they committed slander."
Then, from August to December 2021, the accused distributed leaflets and other printed materials in Soligorsk . The content of these leaflets was allegedly aimed at inciting social hatred and discord on the basis of a different social affiliation.
At the end of winter 2024, it became known that Tatyana was being transferred to a prison in Zhodino.
Trial outcome 12.12.2022
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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