The verdict was based on Alexei's comments on the Internet.
Immediately upon arrival at the colony, Alexei Semenko was thrown into a punishment cell - a place where prisoners are tortured under inhumane conditions.
Trial outcome 12.03.2025
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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Alexander was arrested in September 2024 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them." In March 2025, he was convicted of participating in protests that took place in 2020.
Trial outcome 11.03.2025
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
2 years 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.
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.
Sergei was convicted under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and sentenced to restricted freedom with referral to an open-type institution.
Trial outcome 11.03.2025
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In December 2024, Roman Yemelyanov was already subjected to repression in an administrative politically motivated case. He was accused of violating the procedure for organizing and holding mass events under Part 1 of Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. At the same time, there have been no mass events in Chechersk in recent years, except for those organized by the authorities. This persecution was probably for some posts on social networks, which the punitive structures of the ruling regime interpret as pickets, since people express some opinions through them.
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.
First,Ivan was arrestedfor15 days, thenplacedin a pretrial detention facility on a criminal case.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
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Irina has been working for JSC Peleng, the largest design and engineering enterprise in the optical-electronic industry, for over 15 years. Most recently, she held the position of Category 1 Design Engineer in the SCS Research and Design Department in the Production Systems Support Sector.
Most likely, the woman was detained during a special operation on Peleng, which began last summer.
Trial outcome 12.03.2025
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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Businessman, head of the auditing company Ernst&Young.
Pavelwas detainedand placed in a pretrial detention center on charges of one of the political articles.It is known that the criminalcasewas openedfor the eventsof 2020.In2020, at the height of the beating of citizens by the police,a letter signed by Lashchenko was issued to the heads oflaw enforcementand government agencies , in which he expressed doubt in the figures voiced by Yermoshina, and also called on everyone to come to their senses and return to the rule of law.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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When in June 2024 the KGB of Belarus declared the Media IQ project an extremist group, it named Pitkevich among its participants. Around the same time, Polina's accounts were last online.
Polina Pitkevich was born in 1994. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University (2016). She was fond of theater and for some time played as an actress in the Laboratory of Social Theater in Minsk. As a journalist, she wrote on cultural topics. Polina is also known for her love of animals - on her social media pages, you can find many ads about helping homeless tailed ones. According to friends, Polina had more than one rescued cat living in her house.
Trial outcome 07.03.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
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5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.09.2024
unknown.
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Maxim Solop is 36 years old. He is originally from Brest. In 2012, he graduated from the Physics Department of the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. He worked as an engineer at the Brest Information Computing Center for Export-Import Transportation of the Belarusian Railway.
Maxim loves traveling and active recreation, and also engages in various sports and leads a healthy lifestyle.
His trial will begin on February 24, 2025, in the Brest City Court. Maxim is accused of "calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of Belarus" (Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code).
Trial outcome 26.02.2025
unknown.
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4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
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Andrey, the owner of the Grodno ethnic store "Tsudounya," was arrested on February 6, 2025, in connection with a criminal case related to the 2020 protests and later sentenced to restricted freedom.
He founded the store in 2015. After the 2020 elections, the business faced fines and the threat of losing its premises, but Andrei remained in Belarus and continued to support it, believing it was important for the preservation and development of Belarusian culture.
Trial outcome 16.05.2025
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
62-year-old employee of the computer science and communications laboratory of the Mozyr Oil Refinery.
Igor Shukanov was demonstratively and harshly detained on August 1, 2024. The GUBOP came for him from Minsk. He was detained right at his workplace. Then, in a factory UAZ-Patriot, he was taken outside the plant's checkpoint. Not far from the bus stop, in the parking lot near the main checkpoint of the plant, where there were people at the time, the GUBOPikovites staged a demonstrative beating of Shukanov - they pulled him out of the UAZ, threw him face down on the asphalt, pressed his knee on his head, and handcuffed him.
It is noteworthy that on the morning of that day Igor was tried under an administrative article for disseminating "extremism." He was given a fine and released - only to be arrested a few hours later.
Trial outcome 26.02.2025
unknown.
Appeal date unknown
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.
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