- Associations
- Detained under 18 years
It is known that the boy had successfully competed in district intellectual games competitions among schoolchildren. Oleg was 16 years old at the time of his arrest. He was beaten for six hours while being transported to the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GUBOP) building. There, after he asked, "Why are they interrogating me without a lawyer present?", he was beaten again.
He finished school in a pre-trial detention facility.
One of Five detained members of the closed chat "Sayuz Belarusiana Natsianalnaga Shchyta" (The Belarusian National Movement), whose detention the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported in early November 2022. The Ministry of Internal Affairs had designated the chat an extremist group a week earlier. The ministry reported that a criminal case had been opened against the detainees under the article on the creation of an extremist group. The group had united in a Telegram group, which was designated an extremist group in early November. They allegedly "were supposed to find perpetrators to destroy infrastructure and organize attacks on law enforcement."
During his imprisonment, Oleg spent 129 days in solitary confinement. He was first placed there on the second day after arriving at the adult prison colony. He was constantly denied visits and parcels.
He was released in June 2025, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
A businessman from Mogilev, his home was searched. A regional state television channel claimed that Tychinsky "was a supporter of Ukrainian Nazi groups" and that he "drove with Ukrainian nationalist symbols in his car." The latter refers to the official flag of Ukraine.
As a result, a criminal case was opened against Vladimir. He is accused of filming the movement of Russian military Z-type equipment on his mobile phone in April 2022 and sending the video to media outlets, which the authorities deemed "extremist."
On October 24, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the spring of 2025, having served his full sentence.
Vladimir was detained on May 9, 2023 at the Terespol-Brest border crossing when returning to Belarus. His phone was checked and then he was detained.
There are several known administrative courts against Vladimir. So, on May 10, 16, 26 and June 7 he was tried under Part 2 of Art. 19.11 Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of extremist materials) and was sentenced to arrest. The last time he was sentenced to 15 days
Searches were carried out at the place where he and his relatives lived. Since his arrest, Vladimir has been kept in the temporary detention center of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Brest.
On the night of June 22-23, 2023, Vladimir was released into a temporary detention facility.
Vladimir was detained again on October 28, 2023 in the Drogichinsky district. There was a preliminary search and seizure of office equipment; after checking his phone, he was detained under Art. 19.11 part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of information products included in the republican list of extremist materials, as well as production, publication, storage or transportation for the purpose of disseminating such information). It is known that Vladimir was arrested because of old subscriptions.
The trial date is still unknown. Since his arrest he has been held in the temporary detention center of the Ivanovo region .
On December 11, 2023, it became known that Vladimir was free.
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
According to the investigation, on the night of March 20, a 20-year-old man tore down four state flags in the agro-town of Loshnitsa. He damaged the flags and broke the poles.
After this, Mikhail was detained by police officers. It turned out that he was a citizen of a foreign state with a residence permit in the Republic of Belarus. He arrived in the Republic of Belarus about 10 years ago and was assigned to work at one of the enterprises in the Minsk region.
Antipov filmed his actions on his phone and posted the photos on his social network page.
The defendant's mother testified in court. Suspecting that her son had committed illegal actions against the flags, she demanded that he contact the police and also reported the incident to the local police inspector.
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
She was detained in January 2023 and convicted of insulting A.G. Lukashenko.
On June 22, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
On March 30, 2024, she was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
The driver of the Svetlogorsk municipal housing unitary enterprise "Svetoch" Vladimir was detained by the police at work on January 6 of this year. First, an administrative case was filed against him, and in the Svetlogorsk district court he was arrested under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code.
Then he was charged with allegedly “inciting racial, national, religious or other social hatred or enmity.” People who have spoken unkindly about government officials on the Internet are tried under this article.
According to human rights activists , he was released in November 2023 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony
At first, Oleg was convicted under an administrative article, part 2 of article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution of extremist materials) for sending a telegram post from the Mustache Lukashenko channel in private messages to a friend. For this, the man was sentenced to 10 days of arrest. And already on March 22, 2023, the man was placed in a pre-trial detention center on criminal charges for comments about Lukashenka and the Belarusian military. According to human rights activists , there was such a comment about the military: "pi * duki" (it was with the asterisk sign that the comment imputed to Oleg was).
During Prokopchuk's stay in a pre-trial detention center, he had a third child, but this did not affect the court's decision.
On August 1, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released in January 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Operator-setup worker. He was detained after a family celebration, during which a domestic conflict occurred and the police were called. According to the prosecution, Konstantin, while sober, spoke disrespectfully about Lukashenko A. in front of the police officers, using obscene language. For this, he was detained and taken into custody.
On 25.08.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released on February 24, 2025.
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- Parents of minors
At the trial, Ruslan said that in April 2022, while browsing the news feed on the Odnoklassniki social network, he saw a post featuring Lukashenka, under which there was a text about overpriced medicines. Succumbing to emotions, he left a comment of an offensive nature in his address.
A native of Gomel, the commander of the second department of the fire rescue unit No. 26 of the Frunzensky district of Minsk. He was detained on February 7, 2023 in Minsk at the duty station.
On September 15, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison
Vyacheslav was accused of "uttering phrases degrading the honor and dignity" of A. Lukashenko while intoxicated and in the presence of police officers. Recordings from the police officers' dashcams were later used in court as evidence of Solodkiy's guilt. It is not specified what words Vyacheslav used.
On 18.08.2024, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Presumably, the basis for the criminal prosecution was an obscene one-word characterization that the accused bestowed on the head of the vertical of power in comments on one of the social networks. Other details of the case are unknown, it is only known that before the trial, Yegorenkov was held in a pretrial detention center from the end of March 2023.
According to human rights activists , he was released on July 22, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
