According to the case materials , the accused subscribed to Telegram channels in 2022 and took an active part in their activities through Telegram bots. In particular, while on the territory of Gomel, he took photographs and videos of the movement of military equipment. Then he sent such material with comments about the route of the cars to Telegram channels through bots that supported his activities. The information products of the Telegram resources used by the accused were recognized by the court as extremist materials.
On January 09, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 08.11.2023
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 09.01.2024
the sentence was upheld.
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Koval was detained on May 28, 2023 right at the border. He was returning from a competition in Slovakia, and upon entering Belarus, Koval’s phone was asked to be checked. The man himself provided the security forces with his phone and password. During the examination, he was found to have data that was “prohibited” according to the Belarusian security forces. Since that day, Koval has been in captivity.
At the criminal trial, Koval was accused of sending a video to the Nexta Editorial telegram bot on March 27, 2022. The video showed the movement of military equipment on the MKAD ring road (around Minsk). Thus, according to the state prosecution, Koval committed a crime, because the Belarusian authorities consider Nexta an “extremist formation.”
Trial outcome 14.09.2023:
2.5 years imprisonment in a colony
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According to the USC for the Mogilev region, Ruslan forwarded the video to the VKontakte public DVIZh, which was recognized by the Belarusian authorities as “extremist”. It is worth noting that the video itself lasts only 12 seconds and nothing actually happens in it - the train with military equipment just stands at the station.
After a while, the man was detained by the KGB. He was charged under part 1 of article 361-4 (assistance to extremist activity) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. The man faces up to 6 years in prison.
Trial outcome 24.07.2023:
unknown
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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.
Trial outcome 20.01.2023:
9 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
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Oleg is accused of posting three messages on the Internet that a plane was flying over Gomel, showing the time and geolocation. And then I added a video about the movement of Russian buses of the «PAZ» brand.
Oleg has a son. Before his arrest, he worked as a taxi driver, volunteered in several charitable organizations.
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He is an employee of the «Mozyr Oil Refinery». Vadim once worked at the «Mozyr oil refinery», and then left for Poland.
For the first time, employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption detained him right at home after returning to Belarus — for allegedly going to rallies in 2020, and after the war began, photographing military equipment and sending pictures to telegram channels.
According to human rights activists, when Vadim was detained, they beat him, seized his phone and spoiled his documents. After restoring the documents and re-obtaining a Polish visa, Mozyryanin went to the police station to find out the fate of the seized phone. There he was detained again and six protocols on administrative offenses were drawn up, and then a criminal case was opened under the article.
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He was accused of having made a publication on the «Belarusian Gayun» telegram channel about the movement of Russian troops.
On December 6, 2022, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome:
Unknown
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He was detained on April 27, 2022. On April 29, he was sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
About a week after the journalist's detention, a fragment of a video from his interrogation and information about the reason for Gontsarevich's detention appeared in the telegram channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus: he allegedly photographed Russian military equipment and sent pictures to the media, recognized by the Belarusian authorities as extremist.
Trial outcome:
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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According to the version of the telegrams of channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, he was detained for a photo of railway transport. He was previously arrested under an administrative article. A citizen of Moldova.
Trial outcome:
Unknown
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A former teacher from Khoyniki was accused of videotaping the movement of a column of military equipment, and then sent the recording to the telegram channel «Belaruski Gayun».
Trial outcome 06.12.2022:
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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It is reported that the man was detained for the events of August 2020, but law enforcement officers found photos of military equipment in his phone, which he uploaded to the telegram channel «Kalinkovichi for Life» on February 23.
Trial outcome:
Unknown
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Maxim was detained after Belarusian security forces gained access to the correspondence of the Gayun monitoring project bot, where people sent information about the movements of Russian troops. Soon, the GUBOPiK Telegram channel showed the first person detained due to the leak - Maxim Nikitenko. He is 42 years old, a native of Mozyr. In recent years, he worked at the Mozyr Oil Refinery.
The girl is a citizen of Ukraine, originally from the city of Kherson. She studied in China, graduated from the university there in 2015, and in 2016 moved to Belarus. In Belarus she worked as a translator from Chinese.
Ekaterina was detained while crossing the Belarusian border. They demanded that she give her phone for verification; she provided it to the employees along with the passwords. Belarusian security forces found that on March 30, 2022, she sent 2 videos to the chatbot of the Zerkalo editorial office. The video showed the movement of Russian military equipment near Minsk, which she herself captured.
On December 12, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
On the evening of June 28, 2024, sudden information appeared about the release of five political prisoners from Belarusian colonies. The Ukrainian authorities achieved the release of their exchange citizens as prisoners. This is how Natalya Zakharenko, Pavel Kuprienko, Lyudmila Goncharenko, Ekaterina Bryukhanova, as well as Nikolai Shvets, a defendant in the “Machulishchi case,” were released. The terms of the exchange were not disclosed. It is noted that the Vatican took part in the liberation. The released political prisoners were brought to Ukraine on June 28 - their photo from the Zhulyany airport appeared in the media.
Trial outcome 13.10.2023
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
As you know, Sergei Mozol was detained on March 9, 2023. First, he was tried twice for reposting under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offences, and was sentenced to 5 and 15 days of arrest. And on March 29, 2023, the man was placed in custody on a criminal case.
The basis for the criminal case was that on March 11, 2022 Mozol sent one message to the telegram bot “NEXTA Editorial”: “Stolin, Brest region. Border with Ukraine. I confirm that missiles were fired from a fighter jet.” According to the prosecution, in this way Sergei Mozol deliberately contributed to the activities of the “extremist formation NEXTA.”
However, at the trial, Mozol said that he learned about the status of an “extremist formation” from the telegram channel “NEXTA” “only 4 months ago” (that is, in February 2023). When I found out about the status, I unsubscribed (and also unsubscribed from “BYPOL”, “Belaruski Gayun”, “Real Belarus”).
On September 05, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 23.06.2023
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Inhabitant of Baranovichi. He was arrested in mid-February 2023. The man was charged with the fact that on March 8, 2021 on Instagram he posted a story “with the face of Lukashenka in a female guise” and the text: “Since March 8, daragia of a woman. The cruelest health and only pleasant ashchushcheny. For this, they were accused of publicly insulting Lukashenka.
Vladislav was also accused of sending videos and texts to the Nexta editorial chatbot several times (for example, videos of Russian military aircraft and trains with Russian military). This was qualified as "other assistance to extremist activity" under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code.
On September 05, 2023, the appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 21.06.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
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