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Sergei and his wife were detained in November 2023. Before the trial, Sergei was in custody, and Tatyana was under recognizance, since the family had two minor children.
According to the prosecution , in August 2020, Sergei and Tatyana took part in an unauthorized mass event, together with the protesters they marched through public places in the city, the central square, and Zhilibert Park. At the same time, they showed a pre-made poster measuring approximately 2.5 x 3 meters, on which a text containing slanderous information against the president was written in black and red colors, thereby deliberately spreading slanderous information against him in connection with his execution powers of the head of state.
The accused Sergei Chizh fully admitted his guilt at the court hearing. He explained that the poster was heavy, and it was soon rolled up, and after the procession, Sergei burned it.
Tatyana Chizh did not admit guilt to the charges, explaining that she was depressed due to the serious illness of her mother, who is disabled.
They were identified from photographs from the Internet.
Trial outcome 26.02.2024: 3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 01.02.2024: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 02.04.2024: unknown.
Trial outcome 17.01.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 29.03.2024: unknown.
Detained for financing extremist activities, namely helping political prisoners and their families.
Trial outcome 16.07.2024: 3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 04.10.2024: unknown.
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According to his page on the social network Vkontakte, Zykun graduated from BSMU (Minsk Medical University) in 2016. Lives and works in Brest as a urologist at a regional hospital. In the winter of 2023, he was detained for donations. The “authorities” obliged to pay financial assistance to the orphanage in multiple amounts. After this, the doctor was under the close attention of security forces. The administration put pressure on him in every possible way through the deputy chief physician for ideology.
According to the prosecution , Oleg Zykun deliberately and illegally distributed personal data of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The personal data itself was presumably taken from the Telegram channel “Nexta” (because similar information was posted there). And then he “distributed” them on the local network at work, which was discovered in the summer of 2023. By the summer of 2023, Zykun himself had no idea that in his folder on the local work network there was a file with the names and telephone numbers of Ministry of Internal Affairs employees. But this list was found as part of an administrative case in July 2023 during an inspection of the man’s equipment.
At the trial, Zykun admitted his actions. But he did not admit the intent to disseminate data from employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (which the state prosecution insists on).
1.5 years of restriction of freedom in a colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 04.01.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 26.03.2024: unknown.
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Catherine's trial will begin on May 15, 2024. She is being tried under three articles of the Criminal Code. The minimum punishment is 4 years in prison.
Trial outcome 22.05.2024: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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Tamara has 4 minor children.
Tamara, under Article 342, Part 1, was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 1 year, to this punishment the court partially added the unserved part of the sentence imposed by the verdict of the Leninsky District Court of Minsk dated June 30, 2022 under Part 2 of Art. 206 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus , and the final punishment was imposed in the form of imprisonment for a period of 2 years 6 months, to be served in a correctional colony under general regime conditions.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
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On March 6, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
Katerina has a little daughter waiting at home.
Trial outcome 22.12.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 06.03.2024: unknown.
The essence of the case and the verdict were commented on by the assistant prosecutor of Brest on state television. From the video and the prosecutor’s commentary, it follows that Sankovskaya was charged with the following: in 2020 and 2021, in one telegram chat she published an image of the state flag of Belarus, and in the background there was a Nazi swastika (this was a “desecration of state symbols”), and also again in Telegram messenger published an “insulting” message about Yuri Karaev (remember that from June 2019 to the end of October 2020 Karaev was the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after which he took the post of Assistant to the President for the Grodno region), and also in the Telegram messenger published several messages about A. Lukashenko, which were also considered “offensive.”
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The first episode happened back in January 2022. Then Baranovsky made a transfer from his bank account to an unnamed structure recognized as an extremist formation. The exact amount of the transfer is unknown. In April 2022, Baranovsky made a donation to the account of the Kalinovsky Regiment. It is known that the man was detained in the spring of 2023 by employees of the Office of the State Security Committee for the Mogilev region.
Trial outcome 22.11.2023: 5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 09.01.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Programmer from Brest. Recently I lived in Poland. Detained after arriving in Belarus. On November 8, 2023, a telegram channel close to the Brest GUBOP released a “repentance video” with a man, where he said that he was detained for “numerous offensive comments.”
Solomiyuk was tried under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for publicly insulting A. Lukashenko. Before the trial, the man was also charged with Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting government officials), but due to the expired statute of limitations, this article was removed. As a result, the man was tried for several online comments that negatively assessed Lukashenko.
On April 23, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 14.02.2024: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 23.04.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 08.12.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 30.01.2024: the sentence was upheld.
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In a confessional video on a pro-government channel, Alexander says that he was detained for sending a video of military equipment to a chat. At that time, he was allegedly scared, so he posted the video out of emotion. “In this chat there was a narrative that hostilities were about to begin between Belarus and Ukraine,” says the engineer.
The video shows screenshots from the chat. The explanation for the video with military equipment says that it is moving along the M1 highway towards Brest. It is unknown when this was filmed.
Alexander works as an energy engineer.
Trial outcome 18.01.2024: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 26.03.2024: unknown.
Trial outcome 23.10.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 19.12.2023: the sentence was upheld.