Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 14 decisions awarding at least 22 days of administrative arrest and fines of at least 290 rubles in fines and at least 17 years of restriction or imprisonment.
On July 5, 2023, she sentenced concrete carpenter Ruslan Shukalo to two years of imprisonment for a comment about Lukashenko under a post in Odnoklassniki about inflated prices for medicines. Judge Evgenia Melnik found him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting Lukashenko)
On June 22, 2023, on-site, I considered the case against Pinsk resident Kirill Borisov. The young man was accused of publicly insulting Alexander Lukashenko under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code. Sentence: two years of restriction of freedom with assignment to an open correctional facility (“chemistry”).
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 14 decisions awarding at least 22 days of administrative arrest and fines of at least 290 rubles in fines and at least 17 years of restriction or imprisonment.
On July 5, 2023, she sentenced concrete carpenter Ruslan Shukalo to two years of imprisonment for a comment about Lukashenko under a post in Odnoklassniki about inflated prices for medicines. Judge Evgenia Melnik found him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code (insulting Lukashenko)
On June 22, 2023, on-site, I considered the case against Pinsk resident Kirill Borisov. The young man was accused of publicly insulting Alexander Lukashenko under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code. Sentence: two years of restriction of freedom with assignment to an open correctional facility (“chemistry”).
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 14.02.2025
unknown.
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1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 06.12.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
A former journalist for Media-Polesye, Yevgeny was severely beaten during the protests.
On August 10, 2020, Yevgeny went to the protests as a journalist. He was detained , first beaten by police in the Pinsk City Executive Committee restroom, then in a police van. He was then taken to the Pinsk City Police Department's shooting range, where Ales Romanovich saw him badly beaten. He was then placed in the Pinsk temporary detention facility, and then taken to the pretrial detention center of the Ivatsevichi colony, where security forces had housed some of the detainees.
A week after the beating, the journalist still had bruises. It was reported that traces of the beating remained on his face even a month later, including deep scars. Media-Polesye also reported at the time that its employee had suffered an eye injury.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the fall of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
Kirill's sentence, handed down in the summer of 2023, was announced in a local state television report. The report stated that the criminal case was based on a Telegram comment containing obscene language directed at Lukashenko, written in 2022. Kirill was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
In December 2024, a new court hearing was announced regarding the issue of replacing the restricted freedom sentence with a prison term in a penal colony. The outcome of the hearing, as well as Kirill's presence, remains unknown.
At the trial, Ruslan said that in April 2022, while browsing the news feed on the Odnoklassniki social network, he saw a post featuring Lukashenka, under which there was a text about overpriced medicines. Succumbing to emotions, he left a comment of an offensive nature in his address.
Trial outcome 19.06.2023
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the prosecution, on December 31, 2022, Vladimir posted a negative, obscene comment in a closed public chat on the social network VKontakte under a graphic image of Lukashenko. The content of the comment is unknown to human rights activists.
At the court hearing, he fully admitted his guilt and refused to testify. Until the trial, he was under a travel restriction. He was also known to have been repeatedly charged with administrative offences for "disseminating extremist materials."
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
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