It is known that an appeal hearing took place on November 1, 2023, and the verdict came into force.
Ruslan was tried for a comment on a Telegram channel that allegedly encouraged participation in the Marches. Ruslan admitted his guilt. He said that he had indeed posted the comment under the influence of emotions, as he had read comments from other users on the channel. He also noted that he had once attended a protest.
It is known that Ruslan was detained on the border with Russia: the time and circumstances are unknown. Before his detention, he worked as a technician-mechanic.
According to human rights activists, he was released on November 7, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
A resident of Loyivshchyna was detained at the end of August 2023 for insulting police officers while filming a video and then posting the video with insults on the Internet.
After the verdict, she was released in the courtroom due to the recalculation of the time spent in the pre-trial detention center.
Maxim is currently undergoing compulsory military service in a military unit in Borisov.
According to the prosecution , Maxim, “acting jointly and in concert in a group of people from approximately 21:00 on August 9 to 1:30 on August 10, 2020, “stood on the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, clapped his hands, loudly shouted, whistled, shouted various slogans, while refusing to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”
In Zhlobin, according to the investigation, on the day of the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus on August 9, 2020, at about 10 p.m., an aggressive crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered in the area of the city square.
According to the prosecution , Artur Panchenko, “acting jointly and in concert in a group of people from approximately 21:00 on August 9 to 1:30 on August 10, 2020, “stood on the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, clapped his hands, shouted loudly, whistled, shouted various slogans, while refusing to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”
In Zhlobin, according to the investigation, on the day of the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus on August 9, 2020, at about 10 p.m., an aggressive crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered in the area of the city square.
Arthur served under contract in a military unit as a senior fire rescuer of the military fire protection and rescue team in Zhlobin.
According to pro-government media, he was convicted of sending the data of three of his former colleagues to one of the “extremist” Telegram channels.
On October 24, 2023, a court hearing was held on the subject of “the release of the convicted person from a sentence of imprisonment, the execution of which was suspended.”
Trial outcome 08.09.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
January 2023 security officials drew attention to the pages of the pensioner in social networks: there they found subscriptions to “extremist” information resources, reposts from them, as well as images of white-red-white flags and “chase”, caricatures of Lukashenko and Putin reprinted from various sources. The woman's home was searched and her mobile phone was confiscated.
Trial outcome 30.08.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The reason for the criminal case was the reaction of “class” to a publication in Odnoklassniki in the STOP LUKA public page in April 2022, where an illustration of Alexander Lukashenko’s gravestone with the inscription “Lukashenko (Brechlo) Alexander Grigorievich. 08/30/1954-2022 was posted. To the one who LIES to his PEOPLE. From SOUTH UKRAINIANS."
It is known that Evgeniy was detained in July of this year. He was accused of “publicly insulting Alexander Lukashenko.”
Evgeniy’s wife and little daughter are waiting for him to be free.
Trial outcome 24.08.2023:
2 years in a penal colony under general regime conditions
According to the prosecution, after viewing a photograph posted in the public domain on Odnoklassniki with fixed text, where the honor and dignity of Lukashenko’s personality was humiliated in an indecent form and he was accused of committing a particularly serious crime (murder), Kozlovskaya posted the photograph on her page on the same social network, open for free viewing and copying to an unlimited circle of readers.
In court, Olga said that she sent a letter to Alexander Lukashenko, in which she apologized to him.
According to human rights activists, she was released in December 2023 upon expiration of her sentence.
Trial outcome 24.08.2023:
6 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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