Artyom was detained on 23.11. 2021. He came to the Republic of Belarus for one day to pass the certification at work and was detained right at the office. From November 23, he was in a temporary detention center, on December 2, 2021 he was transferred to SIZO-1. Allegedly blamed for riots in 2020
Trial outcome:
3 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.
A history teacher. He was detained on November 2, 2021 after returning from work in Poland and placed in a temporary detention facility in Minsk. He is a defendant in a criminal case for organizing or actively participating in group actions that grossly violate public order. Arthur has very poor eyesight.
On March 4, 2022, he was released in the courtroom.
Gleb is a defendant in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests on August 10, 2020 in Brest against falsifications in the presidential elections. During the investigation, he left the country, and upon returning to Belarus, he was detained while trying to cross the border into the European Union. In November 2021, he was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
He was released in July 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
A citizen of the Russian Federation, a volunteer of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's initiative group. He was detained on June 6, 2020 in Belarus, on November 26 Andrei Novikov was simply taken to the border with Russia, stamped with a ban on entry to Belarus for 10 years. He has a wife and two children in Belarus.
Andrei Novikov was detained again on April 13 in the village of Prusa, where he had secretly arrived to visit his wife and children. Novikov was charged under Article 371 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ("Illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus"). The charge under Article 342 of the Criminal Code has not been dropped against him either.
On October 31, 2022, he was released upon completion of his term and handed over to the FSB of the Russian Federation upon deportation from the Republic of Belarus.
Anna, director of the Polish School LLC in Brest, was detained in March 2021 upon her return to Belarus as part of a criminal case on the "glorification of war criminals". The reason for the investigation was an "illegal mass event" in memory of the "damned soldiers" that took place on February 28 in a building rented by the Brest Forum of Polish Local Initiatives and the Polish School.
At the end of May 2021, Anna was released and deported to Poland.
Vitalia was detained upon her return to Belarus as part of a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against the falsification of the presidential elections that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest. She was convicted of participating in "mass riots." According to the case materials, the total damage amounted to about 24 thousand Belarusian rubles.
She was released in December 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 21.05.2021
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, approximately 1850 rubles of compensation.
David was detained upon his return from Poland as part of a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against fraud in the presidential elections that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
On January 21, 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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