Journalist of the Belsat TV channel. Together with journalist Daria Chultsova, she became a defendant in a criminal case after a live broadcast from the scene of the brutal dispersal of demonstrators by the security forces on the "Square of Changes" in Minsk on November 15, 2020.
After seven days of administrative arrest, she was not released. Katerina was transferred to a detention center in Zhodzina.
On February 18, 2021, she was sentenced to 2 years in prison and sent to a general regime correctional colony.
On February 10, 2022, Katerina was transferred from correctional colony No. 4 to the Gomel pre-trial detention center in connection with “procedural actions”.
On April 7, 2022, it became known that the journalist was charged with a new charge of "treason against the state" ( Part 1, Article 356 of the Criminal Code ). On July 4, 2022, the case began to be considered behind closed doors by the judge of the Gomel Regional Court Oleg Khoroshko . On July 13, he appointed Katerina 8 years and 3 months in a colony under a reinforced regime.
8 years and 3 months of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Blogger, activist of the anarchist movement. He was detained on November 11, 2020 and brutally beaten. The video of the confession, which he was forced to film under torture, was published by security forces in various Telegram channels.
While serving his sentence in IK-9, he was subjected to numerous penalties, for which in June 2022 he was transferred to the prison regime in Prison-1, Grodno.
In September 2024, it became known that Nikolai would be tried for “malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional institution executing a sentence of imprisonment” (Article 411, Part 1).
5 years of imprisonment in a strict regime
The journalist and consultant for Radio Liberty, as well as the administrator of the telegram channel “Belarus of the Brain,” was detained on June 25, 2020 and convicted of “organizing mass riots.”
15 years of imprisonment under enhanced security conditions
Detained on January 12, 2021. Charges indicted: Art. 342 of the Criminal Code – Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them.
Aleksandrov is a media manager. On January 15, 2021, Deputy Interior Minister Gennadiy Kazakevich said in an official statement that Aleksandrov and Zlobina had been detained "on suspicion of financing protest activities". According to him, Aleksandrov and Zlobina had been involved in the financing of persons taking part in the protests in Minsk since August 2020, including by paying their fines and reimbursing the costs of detention in the Isolation Centre for Offenders (TsIP) and Temporary Detention Facility (IVS). On September 1, 2022, Andrei and Irina Zlobina got married in SIZO-1.
14 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony
Alexander is a famous Belarusian freelance photographer. During his professional career, he received many awards for his work.
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
The creators and editors of the Nexta project: Stepan Putilo, Yan Rudik and Roman Protasevich, are accused of a number of criminal articles, and a lawsuit has been filed against them for a total amount of more than 30 million rubles. Putilo and Rudik were subjected to "special proceedings". Protasevich complied with the terms of the pre-trial cooperation agreement concluded with him in full, therefore he remains under house arrest - he is the only one of the accused who actually participates in the trial. According to the Belarusian state agency BelTA, the defendants are accused of committing at least 1,586 crimes.
Earlier, the KGB put Putilo and Protasevich on the "terrorist list", and Nexta in Belarus is a "terrorist organization".
19 years in prison in absentia.
Belarusian journalist, blogger, director, TV presenter, author and creator of NEXTA channels on social and political topics.
The creators and editors of the Nexta project: Stepan Putilo, Yan Rudik and Roman Protasevich, are accused of a number of criminal articles, and a lawsuit has been filed against them for a total amount of more than 30 million rubles. Putilo and Rudik were subjected to "special proceedings". Protasevich complied with the terms of the pre-trial cooperation agreement concluded with him in full, therefore he remains under house arrest - he is the only one of the accused who actually participates in the trial. According to the Belarusian state agency BelTA, the defendants are accused of committing at least 1,586 crimes.
Earlier, the KGB put Putilo and Protasevich on the "terrorist list", and Nexta in Belarus is a "terrorist organization".
20 years in prison in absentia.
She was detained together with her husband Alexander Lychavko. Snezhana previously worked at TUT.BY, now at Onliner. Alexander is a local historian and journalist from Minsk who, according to the security forces, collaborated with The Village.
On the morning of October 6, they stopped communicating. Later there was information that they were detained. The next day, a telegram channel close to the GUBOPiK posted “repentant” videos with the spouses detained the day before - in the video they say that they were detained for subscribing to telegram channels that the Belarusian authorities recognized as extremist, as well as for participating in protest marches in 2020 year.
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
A defendant in a criminal case initiated after the murder of KGB officer Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser. Before her arrest, she worked at BelTA in a management position.
She was released in the second half of April 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
She is a Journalist, editor-in-chief ABW.by.
She was detained for participating in protest actions 2020.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Former presenter of the program «Zone X» on the TV channel «Belarus 1» and freelance correspondent of the Kazakh TV channel «Khabar 24». The reason for the detention was his story on the channel.
In addition to imprisonment, Dmitry was awarded a penalty of 16 000 BYN.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Editor of the New Chas newspaper. Detained on April 20, 2022 after interrogation in the UK.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
On October 1, 2021, a search was carried out in Mozheiko’s house, a little later he was detained and placed in a detention center on Akrestsina Street as part of an initiated criminal case for an article in a publication about Andrey Zeltser. The Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation and the Union of Journalists of Russia called for the immediate release of the journalist
Mozheiko is the author of an article about Andrei Zeltser, a Minsk resident killed in a shootout with KGB officers. According to the prosecution, Mozheiko “acting on the basis of political and ideological hostility, committed a number of crimes between June 23, 2020 and October 2021.” He also “made and posted on the Internet negative, obscene and unacceptable” statements regarding Lukashenka.
The journalist pleaded not guilty in court.
01/23/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
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