A former law enforcement officer, then worked at EPAM before being detained.
He was detained in October 2021 under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Inciting social discord) for transmitting the data of security forces to the telegram channels «Karateli Belarusi» and «Chernaya kniga Belarusi» («Punishers of Belarus» and «Black Book of Belarus»).
Trial outcome:
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
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The girl was charged under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Inciting social hostility) for transmitting the data of security forces, teachers, judges to the telegram channel «Chernaya kniga Belarusi» («Black Book of Belarus»).
Trial outcome 23.12.2022:
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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An employee of the Mogilev branch of Beltelecom. Arrested at the workplace on October 28, 2021. He is preliminarily accused of distributing data to employees of law enforcement agencies.
Trial outcome 05.12.2022:
6.5 years in prison.
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street art artist, an IT specialist, was detained in mid-July 2021 for transferring data from representatives of law enforcement agencies to the Black Book of Belarus telegram channel.
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An employee of the Ministry of Education. Sergei is accused of leaking data to the ChKB.
They detained Sergei brutally: several security forces suddenly ran into him when the man calmly walked around the courtyard of a high-rise building.
According to the pro-government telegram channels, a resident of Minsk wrote comments in "extremist" chats calling for forceful resistance to the internal affairs bodies (the security forces showed several messages dated August 2020), and also sent personal data to the bot of the Black Book of Belarus channel several judges.
39 year old Irena is a specialist of the Minsk City Agency for State Registration and Land Cadastre, she was detained in the summer of 2022. It is known that the woman has 4 minor children. Slander was charged with four articles of the Criminal Code.
Trial outcome 28.03.2023
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Evgeny Vasilevsky was detained almost a year ago in Moscow, from March 25 to April 7, 2022, he was sentenced to administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding mass events).
The essence of the accusation is still unknown. Probably, we are talking about the transfer of personal data of security forces to protest chats.
In the fall of 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 23.01.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
He worked as an international transportation manager for the Minsk company Transglobal.
Sergey was very active in commenting on various messages in more than 30 groups. The Telegram account was more or less decently protected, but he had not changed it since 2018.
The security forces accuse him of "threatening government officials on the Internet" (he left 43 thousand comments). And also of transferring some information about his former classmate, a security officer, to the "Black Book of Belarus". 58 criminal cases have been opened against him.
On September 29, 2023, he was sent to pretrial detention center No. 4 (Mogilev). On October 27, Sergei's appeal was considered in the Minsk City Court. In late autumn 2023, it became known that Sergei had been transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1 as part of a new criminal case. The trial under Article 369 (insulting a government official) was scheduled for December 7, 2023, in the Minsk Moskovsky District Court, Judge Tatyana Pirozhnikova.
Trial outcome 10.08.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.10.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 08.12.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Local historian, teacher of history of the highest qualification category, researcher of archaeological sites, toponymy, history of settlements, life and work of famous people of the Miory region, head of the museum association "Heritage of the Miory Territory". Vitold was allegedly detained for insulting comments and "leaking" data into the Black Book of Belarus. Together with him, his son Anton Yermalenok was detained.
Pavel Belikov is the director of a large advertising studio "Legalitbay". He was detained together with his wife. In the security forces' video, Pavel says that he allegedly printed protest leaflets at a printing house owned by "Legalitbay". The man also says that he allegedly wrote to "protest" Telegram channels, including "The Black Book of Belarus". He allegedly passed on information about police officers and the prosecutor to the latter. His wife works for an IT company. She was detained for having a protest sticker on her car. In the video, she says that she "participated in the protests", but no confirmation of this is provided.
in the telegram channel of the pro-government department, she is called the administrator of the “extremist formation Black Book of Belarus.” Yanina also leads the YouTube channel "Dzikae palyavanne".
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