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Citizen of Germany. It is known that Rico previously worked as a special security officer for the American Foreign Ministry in Berlin. After this position, he moved into the healthcare field, working as a nurse. According to his linkedin page, the man was a military doctor for the Red Cross.
Rico Krieger was found guilty of “committing an explosion in order to influence decision-making by authorities, intimidate the population, destabilize public order (an act of terrorism), committed by a person who had previously committed a crime under Part 4 of Art. 295 of the Criminal Code, by an organized group, that is, in the commission of a crime under Part 3 of Art. 289 of the Criminal Code."
Based on it, Krieger was given an exceptional punishment in the form of death penalty (execution).
Human rights activists also learned that the case of the military doctor concerns the Kalinovsky regiment, namely its structural unit, the foreign mechanized battalion "Western".
It is known that the man left behind a minor child in Germany. It is also noted that at the moment there is no information whether the verdict was appealed or protested, and whether it entered into legal force.
08/01/2024 Rico Krieger was released as part of an exchange between Russia and the West.
On the morning of July 1, the car of pro-Russian activist Sergei Yudaev with Crimean license plates and a large "Z" on the hood was parked near the Polotsk police department and was covered in white paint. A few days later, employees of the regional police department allegedly detained the guilty 53-year-old Ilya Dvoirin - at least, a video of the detention appeared on the official website of the Vitebsk Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A criminal case has been opened against him.
1 year imprisonment without restriction of freedom .
In early October 2022, unknown individuals hung a white-red-white flag and a Ukrainian flag on a power line support in the Moscow district of the capital. The next day, a post appeared on Anton Motolko's Telegram channel with a photo of the flag and the caption: "Minsk residents congratulate the Ukrainian people on the wonderful news from the Crimean bridge. Crimea is Ukraine! Long live Belarus! Glory to Ukraine!" During operational and investigative activities, police officers detained six Minsk residents aged 34 to 36 who allegedly did this. Including Igor.
As propagandist Gladkaya writes, since September 2020, Igor Tikach has left more than three thousand messages in one of the extremist yard chats.
Gladkaya also notes that Savelyev and Tikach allegedly wanted to get visas, renewed their passports, and Igor was already waiting for a call from the Polish consulate. Igor has two minor children and a wife who has serious health problems at large.
On September 14, 2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in December 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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19 year old student of MSLU.
Before the verdict was announced, the girl had been in custody since September 2, 2020. She was found guilty that on March 6, 2022, she pasted a leaflet containing slander against Lukashenko on an advertising banner on one of the streets of Minsk. According to the position of the prosecution, she spread false information about Lukashenko.
The girl admitted her guilt and said that she had printed out a leaflet and pasted it together with her friend to draw people's attention to what was happening in the world. Witnesses reported about the sticker to the police. The girl were identified by CCTV cameras.
The criminal case is related to protest graffiti written with a felt-tip pen in Brest. Earlier, security forces announced the arrest of a 68-year-old pensioner who wrote "No to war" and "Long live Belarus!" at a public transport stop.
Before the trial, the woman was placed under house arrest. After the verdict was announced, the woman's house arrest was lifted.
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According to human rights activists, Oksana was detained at the end of December 2022.
She was a member of the core team of the Coordination Council. In June 2021, she was detained during the premiere of the production “White Rabbit, Red Rabbit” and was released after drawing up a report. In May 2021, her apartment was searched.
Oksana was tried together with political prisoner Bohdan Korovets , founder of the Astronim company and the White Square advertising and marketing festival.
Oksana Zaretskaya’s father has health problems, Bogdan is raising a child with a disability.
According to human rights activists, Oksana felt unwell after the verdict was announced and was hospitalized. The woman spent at least three days in a coma, and after some time she was returned to Volodarka. The pre-trial detention center doctors did not provide proper medical care to Zaretskaya, and did not even take valerian for her in the packages from her relatives.
On April 10, 2024, she was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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According to the pro-government telegram channels, he was detained for displaying a black-and-white and Ukrainian flag in early October 2022.
At the end of October 2022, six men were detained in Minsk for allegedly hanging a sewn white-red-white flag along with the flag of Ukraine on power line supports in Minsk on October 7. These are Igor Tepteev, Yuri Nesterenko, Victor Grinko, Valery Balabeshko, Vladimir Savelyev, Igor Tikach. Only the next day a post appeared on Anton Mot’s Telegram channel with a photo of the flag and the caption: “Minsk residents congratulate the Ukrainian people on the wonderful news from the Crimean bridge. Crime is Ukraine! Long live Belarus! Glory to Ukraine!”
It is reported that it was Yuri who took the photo, which later appeared in Anton Motolko’s tg channel. But Yuri himself said that he sent the photo only to a friendly chat.
On September 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Detained for hanging a white-red-white flag After their detention, the channel in the Zello mobile application through which they communicated during the rally was recognized as an extremist formation.
21.03.2023 | The trial began on March 20, 2023, Judge Kuchuk |
She was detained for hanging a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine in a 19-storey building on Lesya Ukrainka Street.
After her arrest, the channel in the Zello mobile application, through which she communicated during the rally, was recognized as an extremist formation.
On September 19, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Alexander was convicted for the inscriptions on the garage near the local bath. The investigation considered that in April Kasumov twice applied graffiti to the walls of the garage. The first inscription "No to war!" painted over, so he drew "No war!", "Luka", "murderer!"
1.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
Convicted of writing the inscriptions: “Glory to Ukraine”, “Death to Russian invaders”, “Lukashy-fascists” on the facades of buildings in Kobryn.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
At the trial, Vadim explained that he was walking down the street in the evening and saw a flag on a column of a building at arm's length. He pulled the mounting bracket and tore off the flag from the pole, and then, seeing that it was the flag of the Republic of Belarus, he threw it to the ground. When he started to walk away, he touched the shaft with his foot to push it away and not step on it. He explained the reason for his actions as alcohol intoxication.
On September 14, 2023, the police found Kovalev’s body without signs of life in one of the Riga parks. The circumstances of the death are unclear and police are investigating.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
According to the materials of the prosecution, in the evening of March 4, 2022, Olga Kovaleva, using a pink aerosol can, applied several anti-war inscriptions "X ... war" on the walls of residential buildings, heating networks and in the entrance. She photographed some of them. In total, five cases of inscriptions were recorded, which caused damage to the city's housing and communal services for a total of 161 rubles. At the time of the trial, the defendant fully reimbursed this amount.
A fine of 100 basic units (3,200 rubles).
According to the prosecution, on March 1, a man in a state of alcoholic intoxication had the intention to damage property in public places, and therefore put the inscription «NO WAR» in red paint on the surface of a concrete fence.
This significantly reduced the aesthetic characteristics of the concrete fence, entailed the need to carry out work on painting the previously painted concrete fence, thereby causing damage to the «Automobile Plant No. 2» in the amount of 14,59 BYN.
3 months of arrest.