Detainee Konstantin Bich said in his “repentance” video that he had previously been prosecuted under administrative article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offences, and also received a fine for hanging a white-white flag. According to him, and for insulting a police officer on social networks. Pro-government telegram channels report that the man recently returned to Belarus from EU countries. On November 24, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
1 year of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for making more than 1,200 comments. It is noteworthy that the comments shown by the security forces were written primarily in the Belarusian language and were mainly aimed at supporting Ukraine. All comments shown are from YouTube.
In the video on the security forces’ channels, five SOBR soldiers attack him, and later the man looks beaten: he has a badly black eye and his head is scratched until it bleeds.
Stepan works as a worker at one of the private enterprises in Grodno. The man also regularly goes to the gym and keeps himself in good physical shape, judging by the photos on social networks.
5.5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security prison.
He didn’t buy a ticket on the trolleybus while he was drunk and cursed the president with obscene words. The controller called the police and Sergei was detained.
2.6 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.
According to the prosecution, on the evening of July 31, 2023, Kondratyev, while near the building of one of the dormitories of the Minsk Civil Aviation Plant, grabbed the national flag mounted on the facade of the building by the cloth, and then tore it off the mount, breaking the pole, which is part of the flag. Then, twisting the flag, he took it with him. By doing this, he harmed the authority of the Republic of Belarus.
And material damage to the plant amounted to 130 rubles 82 kopecks.
The man was “identified” from the CCTV footage and was detained on August 14, placed in a pre-trial detention center until trial. It was alleged in court that Alexander was intoxicated.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
Father of political prisoner Nikita Zolotarev . Mikhail was detained on August 8, 2023 and sentenced to 15 days of arrest under Art. 19.11 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (distribution of extremist materials). After the first arrest, he was not released and was sentenced under the same article to another 15 days, and then to another 15.
On September 22, 2023, on the eve of his release after serving his third administrative arrest in a row, he was again found guilty of committing an offense and sent to a detention center for the fourth time.
On October 24, by decision of the KGB, the closed Telegram chat “Gomel for Nikita Zolotorev” was recognized as an “extremist formation,” and its only designated participant was the father of the political prisoner, Mikhail Lapunov.
Human rights activists learned that some time after serving administrative arrests, Mikhail was taken into custody. As of the summer of 2024, he is being held in a pre-trial detention center .
A former military man, a resident of Minsk, who was forced by the special services under torture to participate in a provocation, within the framework of which the latter contacted representatives of BYPOL and offered to carry out direct actions. All negotiations and correspondence were recorded.
On March 19, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
19 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions.
Detained for donations. There is a child under 1 year of age.
On February 6, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
5 years imprisonment in a maximum security colony
Svetlana is a pensioner and cycling activist from Gomel, chairman of the regional public association “VeloGomel”. Previously, Korol worked as a teacher-organizer. In 2020, a woman joined the Gomel Coordination Council.
According to Viasna , security forces detained Korol in 2020 and conducted “preventive conversations.” At home, Svetlana has an old mother and a husband with cancer, whom she cares for.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
2 years imprisonment in a colony
On November 24, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
The Minsk resident was accused of participating in protests in 2020 (8 episodes), entering the roadway and blocking public transport. She indicated a partial admission of guilt, but did not actually admit guilt and did not recant her testimony. The woman said that she took part in the protests as an outside observer, and not as a participant. And she went out onto the roadway solely for the purpose of taking photographs, Inna said at the trial.
Inna Bogdanova has a higher education and worked as a legal consultant at the territorial center for social services for the population. She was kept in custody pending trial.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
2 years imprisonment.
On November 17, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force. However, on December 4, 2023, a new court hearing was held under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On February 13, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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Koval was detained on May 28, 2023 right at the border. He was returning from a competition in Slovakia, and upon entering Belarus, Koval’s phone was asked to be checked. The man himself provided the security forces with his phone and password. During the examination, he was found to have data that was “prohibited” according to the Belarusian security forces. Since that day, Koval has been in captivity.
At the criminal trial, Koval was accused of sending a video to the Nexta Editorial telegram bot on March 27, 2022. The video showed the movement of military equipment on the MKAD ring road (around Minsk). Thus, according to the state prosecution, Koval committed a crime, because the Belarusian authorities consider Nexta an “extremist formation.”
2.5 years imprisonment in a colony
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