Human rights activists are aware of several facts of administrative prosecution of Nelly Alferova. The woman spoke about some of them in one of her video messages to Lukashenko and senior government officials in 2021; the details of others were clarified in the courts.
In 2020, the Polotsk resident was an observer in the presidential elections. At that time, the security forces already had special records of her.
At the end of 2021, the woman decided to leave Belarus with her son. In the videos, she talked about the problems she had to face in emigration. The host of the program on the pro-government TV channel "Zvyazda" thanked Alferova for her sincerity and invited her to return home as soon as possible. Belarusian emigrant acquaintances offered the woman both practical and financial help. But she refused and at the same time “looked depressed, broken.” The woman indeed soon returned to Belarus.
At the end of 2023, texts criticizing the current Belarusian authorities periodically appeared on the pages of Nelly Alferova. And at the same time, the woman wrote that she was being secretly stalked, that she found hidden video cameras in her apartment...
Also on the Polotsk resident’s social networks, you can see many reposts from Internet resources recognized as “extremist.” Probably the police noticed this and detained Nellie.
Nikolai was repeatedly tried for “unauthorized picketing,” and in March 2022, the man was arrested for 20 days for calling for participation in the protest on February 27. He was detained at home by five security officers wearing bulletproof vests.
On December 5, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 13.09.2023
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Igor was convicted twice in the summer of 2022 for comments about government officials in Telegram chats and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open facility, as well as to compensation.
In January 2023, a court hearing was held "on replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in an open correctional facility," but its outcome is unknown.
Trial outcome 07.06.2022
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, unknown rubles of compensation.
Trial outcome 13.07.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 6880 rubles of compensation.
Appeal 30.09.2022
the sentence was upheld.
Final verdict by partial addition:
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 6880 rubles of compensation.
According to the first charge, between August 5, 2020, and August 11, 2021, Andrei posted insults against Lukashenko in social media comments at least 20 times. In May 2022, he was sentenced to restricted freedom without referral.
However, he was soon convicted again. According to the second charge, between August 5, 2020, and July 2021, Andrei repeatedly posted derogatory and offensive comments about Natalia Kachanova, Vladimir Makei, and other officials on the social network Odnoklassniki. He was sentenced to restricted freedom with a referral.
The location of his sentence is unknown. Andrei has ailing elderly parents who require care.
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