Political prisoners

Activist from Myadel district.

In December 2021, it became known that Taspaev was sentenced to two years of house arrest for "slander" (Article 188 of the Criminal Code). According to the court schedule, over the past six months, he has been tried twice on administrative charges - for violating animal welfare rules in May 2023 and for violating the procedure for holding mass events in May 2024.

Stanislav's trial, but this time on a criminal case, will begin on October 4, 2024, in the Myadel District Court. As reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office, Stanislav is the administrator of the YouTube channel "Initiative of the Resort Naroch" (recognized as extremist on June 12, 2024), in which "from March 2017 to July 2024, in 36 messages on video recordings, he disseminated deliberately false information about the political, economic and social situation of the Republic of Belarus, the legal status of its citizens, the activities of state bodies, discrediting the country before an unlimited number of people."

The man is fond of photography, and this was one of his sources of income. He also earns money by providing computer services. Stanislav was also a district coordinator of the IT-Country project, which was financed by the IT company Belhard. In addition to his work, Stanislav dealt with environmental issues in Myadel and its environs, and protected nature.

For a long time, Artur worked in power grids — first as an engineer at «Belenergosetproject», and then at «Minskenergo». Arthur is accused of transferring personal data of more than 500 officials by telegram channel.

Convicted of insulting comments on the Internet.

Leader of the independent trade union "Naftan". Olga worked at the enterprise for 16 years and was fired because of her position. In May 2022, she was released after 75 days of arrest for speaking out against the war. She was detained on November 1 again under an administrative article.

Two days later, the court found her guilty of distributing "extremist materials" and sentenced her to 15 days in jail. On November 11, she was sentenced again to 15 days for "an unauthorized picket." The reason for the trial was a drawing with the inscription "No to war," which Olga published on social networks.
On November 21, 2022, it became known that Olga was transferred to a pre-trial detention center in Vitebsk.

In less than 2022, Britikova spent 105 days behind bars, including 75 days in a row in the spring.

She was detained again under Article 361, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus in August 2023. However, in the spring of 2024, Olga was tried under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

On June 11, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

On August 20, 2024, another closed trial was held over Olga. Yevgeny Burunov was appointed to hear her case in the Vitebsk Regional Court. The political prisoner is accused under three articles. It is known that Olga was given another three years in prison.

On December 20, 2024, the Supreme Court heard the appeal. Chairman of the Judicial Collegium Vladimir Davydov. According to the decision of the Collegium, Olga's second sentence was reduced by 1 year. Thus, the total term of the political prisoner is 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. As of early January 2025, Olga was in a pre-trial detention center, but at the end of the month she was transferred to Correctional Colony No. 4.

In addition to imprisonment, Mikhail was awarded compensation for moral damage to the victims and damage caused by a public transport stop in the amount of 49 000 BYN (~ 20 000 USD).

Chairman of the primary trade union organization of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union of Employees of JSC «Grodno Azot».

The reason for the initiation of a criminal case against the trade union leader, according to the state prosecutor, was his conversation with a journalist of the Belsat TV channel, during which he "gave her some information."

Andrei's phone was tapped, and the conversations were recorded by the special services. After his dismissal from the factory, a criminal case was initiated against him.

He is accused of facilitating extremist activities and discrediting the Republic of Belarus. Earlier, the primary organization of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union of Employees of JSC «Grodno Azot» was recognized as extremist. The Grodno Regional Court decided to ban the activities of the organization and its liquidation.

He was taken into custody in the courtroom, before that he was on his own recognizance not to leave.

It became known about the detention of Yevgeny Glushkov, a resident of the village of Zyabrovka in the Gomel region. According to some media reports, on the night of August 10-11, 2022, an incident occurred at the airfield in Zyabrovka, about which the media wrote a lot, then local checks began.

Eugene found an old picture of the airfield in his phone, which he took from a drone. And we also found contacts of different Ukrainians. That was enough to detain him. The guy before his detention worked as a veterinarian in one of the clinics in Gomel, has exceptionally positive characteristics from employers. Before the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Yevgeny lived abroad for a long time. In recent years - in China, where he studied music and planned to stay to live. But due to the coronavirus epidemic, he was left without sources of income and was forced to return to his homeland.

In 2020, he was a member of the «Lida 97%» chat, where he actively wrote messages. He also wrote about his actions in the «Peramoga» plan - he said this in the video of the telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the security forces, he called for strikes, protests, as well as sabotage on the railway.

In the telegram channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus, news was published that criminal cases had been initiated against Dmitry for deliberately disabling communication routes and organizing group actions that grossly violate public order.

Presumably detained for participating in protests in 2020.

On March 14, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.

On February 17, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. the verdict came into force.

Detained in the case of A. Hralovich. The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.

Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which Television News Agency showed in 2021.

It is known that Olga was held for a year in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee, where she was on a hunger strike. Then she was transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1.

«She was completely gray-haired. She was on hunger strike for a long time — she was even fed through the veins on her hands, so they were swollen like forest driftwood».

She began serving her sentence.

The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.

Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which the Television News Agency showed in 2021.

According to the ONT film, Vladimir Trifonov is a guide across the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, through which he had to illegally transfer Alexey Khralovich.

He began serving his sentence.