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54-year-old Sergei is accused of facilitating extremist activities. He is invited to return to Belarus and come to the department of the Investigative Committee for the Grodno region.
The Investigative Committee began the process of special proceedings against the ex-director of the Grodno children's hospice Olga Velichko. “Special proceedings are proceedings in a criminal case against an accused who is outside the Republic of Belarus and is avoiding appearing before the body conducting the criminal proceedings.” That is, special proceedings are actually the first step towards trials in absentia of those who are abroad, recently legalized in Belarus. In July 2022, Alexander Lukashenko signed a law on amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, which allow Belarusians who are abroad to be tried in absentia and even sentenced to death.
Resident of Postavy and owner of the training hall "ReZhim".
It is known that in 2021, Vitaly’s house was searched; it was carried out in connection with a criminal case for insulting the delegates of the Supreme Council from the Postavy district. The insult allegedly took place on one of the social networks.
In 2024, the Investigative Committee began “special proceedings” against Vitaly. The special jurisdiction mechanism allows the Belarusian authorities to try defendants in absentia if they remain abroad.
2 years imprisonment in absentia
Mikalai was detained in November 2023 as part of a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Minsk on August 28, 2020 against the results of the presidential elections and violence in the country. He was convicted of participating in the protest under the article "on organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
In August 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding against Mikalai “on replacing the restriction of freedom without sending him to an open-type correctional facility.”
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Grodno human rights activist and journalist Vladimir Khilmanovich has not lived in Belarus for two and a half years. But on December 1, 2023, a search was conducted in the apartment of Vladimir Khilmanovich’s wife, where he lived from 2014 to 2021, and a criminal case was opened.
According to the prosecution, "members of the informal politicized migrant group of people from Belarus "Nadzeya", formed under the influence of Internet resources, acting on the grounds of political and ideological hatred, on December 19, 2021, between 18:00 and 20:00 local time, threw chicken eggs at the facade of the embassy building in London and placed an installation of offensive content at the entrance to the embassy building. Having waited for three embassy employees to arrive at the scene of the crime, the defendants verbally insulted and used physical violence against them. The victims suffered bodily harm and beatings."
The incident with the attack on the embassy was examined by the British police, which, according to the Prosecutor General's Office, refused to extradite the defendants to the Belarusian side. The accused are outside Belarus, they are being tried in absentia. Their property, remaining in the country, has been seized.
According to the prosecution, "members of the informal politicized migrant group of people from Belarus "Nadzeya", formed under the influence of Internet resources, acting on the grounds of political and ideological hatred, on December 19, 2021, between 18:00 and 20:00 local time, threw chicken eggs at the facade of the embassy building in London and placed an installation of offensive content at the entrance to the embassy building. Having waited for three embassy employees to arrive at the scene of the crime, the defendants verbally insulted and used physical violence against them. The victims suffered bodily harm and beatings."
The incident with the attack on the embassy was examined by the British police, which, according to the Prosecutor General's Office, refused to extradite the defendants to the Belarusian side. The accused are outside Belarus, they are being tried in absentia. Their property, remaining in the country, has been seized.
According to the prosecution, "members of the informal politicized migrant group of people from Belarus "Nadzeya", formed under the influence of Internet resources, acting on the grounds of political and ideological hatred, on December 19, 2021, between 18:00 and 20:00 local time, threw chicken eggs at the facade of the embassy building in London and placed an installation of offensive content at the entrance to the embassy building. Having waited for three embassy employees to arrive at the scene of the crime, the defendants verbally insulted and used physical violence against them. The victims suffered bodily harm and beatings."
The incident with the attack on the embassy was examined by the British police, which, according to the Prosecutor General's Office, refused to extradite the defendants to the Belarusian side. The accused are outside Belarus, they are being tried in absentia. Their property, remaining in the country, has been seized.
According to the prosecution, "members of the informal politicized migrant group of people from Belarus "Nadzeya", formed under the influence of Internet resources, acting on the grounds of political and ideological hatred, on December 19, 2021, between 18:00 and 20:00 local time, threw chicken eggs at the facade of the embassy building in London and placed an installation of offensive content at the entrance to the embassy building. Having waited for three embassy employees to arrive at the scene of the crime, the defendants verbally insulted and used physical violence against them. The victims suffered bodily harm and beatings."
The incident with the attack on the embassy was examined by the British police, which, according to the Prosecutor General's Office, refused to extradite the defendants to the Belarusian side. The accused are outside Belarus, they are being tried in absentia. Their property, remaining in the country, has been seized.
Head of the «School of Practical Mediation». Mediator from Grodno. He was twice recognized as the «Best Mediator of the Year» (2016-2017) by the Center for Mediation and Negotiations (Minsk).
Khotyanovich specializes in disputes in the field of construction, real estate, consumer, commercial and corporate disputes, as well as in family mediation.
In a video posted on the telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a man was forced to admit that in 2020 he participated in rallies in Minsk, spoke negatively to police officers and their families, had a subscription to telegram channels recognized in the Republic of Belarus as extremist.
