Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Tatyana Mikhailovna Kostyuk supports Lukashenko’s regime and politically motivated repressions.
It has secured convictions in politically motivated cases since at least 2017.
She sentenced political prisoner Galina Kovaleva under Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code and sentenced her to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment to be served in a colony under general regime conditions. Galina was accused of coming from Minsk to Mogilev, where she posted texts and images degrading Lukashenko at public transport stops.
She convicted journalist Alina Skrebunova, whom the police accused of creating three stories for the Belsat TV channel, although the girl is not a journalist for this TV channel, she only interviewed people, and the conversation itself cannot be considered media material. The Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs considered the stories about the ban on cycling on Leninskaya Street and the opening of Belarusian-language cafes “Bystry Los” and “Dranik-Feste” illegal. Kostyuk sentenced Alina to a fine of 30 basic units.
She found Igor Mitenkov guilty under Article 369 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to two years of restriction of freedom without sending him to an open institution. Kostyuk also ordered the man to compensate the victim 1,000 rubles in material compensation for moral suffering for a comment on the social network.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Tatyana Mikhailovna Kostyuk supports Lukashenko’s regime and politically motivated repressions.
It has secured convictions in politically motivated cases since at least 2017.
She sentenced political prisoner Galina Kovaleva under Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code and sentenced her to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment to be served in a colony under general regime conditions. Galina was accused of coming from Minsk to Mogilev, where she posted texts and images degrading Lukashenko at public transport stops.
She convicted journalist Alina Skrebunova, whom the police accused of creating three stories for the Belsat TV channel, although the girl is not a journalist for this TV channel, she only interviewed people, and the conversation itself cannot be considered media material. The Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs considered the stories about the ban on cycling on Leninskaya Street and the opening of Belarusian-language cafes “Bystry Los” and “Dranik-Feste” illegal. Kostyuk sentenced Alina to a fine of 30 basic units.
She found Igor Mitenkov guilty under Article 369 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to two years of restriction of freedom without sending him to an open institution. Kostyuk also ordered the man to compensate the victim 1,000 rubles in material compensation for moral suffering for a comment on the social network.
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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.
Ivan, who has two higher educations, previously worked as an artist-designer and then became an animator, director and video editor. He is also an artist and author of short stories. On October 21, 2020, he was detained and convicted on charges of posting calls for destabilization of public order on a Telegram channel, including arson of the KGB and Oshmyany District Prosecutor's Office buildings.
In December 2022, he was retried for "disobeying the demands of the administration." In May 2024, Ivan was again convicted of "malicious disobedience" and additionally imprisoned for 2 years.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 14.03.2023
unknown.
Trial outcome 08.05.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions.
Appeal 26.07.2024
the sentence was upheld.
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.
Vladimir is a blogger and author of the YouTube channel MozgON. He started by discussing economic and social news, later moving on to political topics, covering various actions, including pickets of Sergei Tikhanovsky.
In June 2020, he was detained to serve an administrative arrest, but was later accused of preparing "mass riots" and convicted in the "Tikhanovsky case." According to human rights activists, the defendants in the case are required to pay compensation in the amount of 29 million rubles.
In 2022, Vladimir was transferred to prison regime. In 2023, he was tried twice for "malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of the correctional institution." In the fall of 2023, a third court hearing was held on a new case for "malicious disobedience."
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.
According to propaganda legend, she “knocked on closed doors after the voting ended, and then forwarded the video to an extremist resource.”
Elena in a video on a pro-government channel says that she sent the video to a friend who lives abroad, and the further fate of the file is unknown.
Elena is originally from Mogilev, but studied in Minsk at the Faculty of Architecture of BNTU. She worked as an architect for some time, and then became an artist. She makes various jewelry and ceramic dishes, and also does calligraphy and painting.
Trial outcome 29.05.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
A worker of the Svarmetprofil enterprise Alexander Nikonov, who was detained at the end of June 2023. It is known that he was accused of “insulting A. Lukashenka” and “slandering A. Lukashenko” because he marked “Class” under a post in the public STOP LUKA on the Odnoklassniki social network.
Trial outcome 31.08.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Presumably, the basis for the criminal prosecution was an obscene one-word characterization that the accused bestowed on the head of the vertical of power in comments on one of the social networks. Other details of the case are unknown, it is only known that before the trial, Yegorenkov was held in a pretrial detention center from the end of March 2023.
According to human rights activists, he was released on July 22, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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