Convicted for participating in protests.
According to human rights activists, in the spring of 2023 he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The 36 year old youngest son of the legendary Belarusian businessman from the village of Komarovo, Eduard Voitekhovich, was traveling to his father's funeral from Riga and was arrested by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption right at the border.
He tried to enter Belarus on January 14, 2022, the Belarusian border guards did not let him go for a long time, and then the staff of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption arrived from Minsk and took him to the detention center on the «Okrestina».
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the beginning of October 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of the summer of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
Convicted of calling «Beltelecom» and insulting Lukashenko.
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Anna was found guilty of “insulting government officials.” On November 24, 2022, she was transferred to home chemicals for health reasons.
On 10/07/2023, the term of serving the sentence on home chemicals expired.
1,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the indictment, Yegor Bagdevich, using a special application, prepared 10 videos with excerpts from films and music videos lasting up to 10 seconds, in which the face of a movie character or singer was changed to Lukashenko’s face.
At the end of August and beginning of September 2020, the accused posted videos in a city Telegram group.
At first, Yegor was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of restriction of freedom and sent to an open correctional facility. Then the sentence was changed to 2 years.
According to human rights activists, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Was convicted for three tik tok videos.
Released on August 23, 2022 after the expiration of the sentence.
1 year in prison.
The reason for the case was Ivan's posts on the Vkontakte social network.
07/11/2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted for participating in several protests.
Maxim has elderly parents and a sick grandmother, whom he helped.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2023.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in November 2023.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
An entrepreneur and TikTok blogger from Bobruisk was detained on April 28, 2022 right at his place of work - in his store.
It is known that Andrei is involved in a criminal case for insulting the president. After the arrest, GUBOPiK seized Belyavsky’s TikTok account. Before his arrest, Belyavsky’s account had more than 100,000 followers.
01/05/2024 released after expiration of sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Sergey Oleinikov and Yan Alekseychikov were found guilty of climbing on the roofs of administrative buildings, tearing off state flags from the local House of Culture and the village executive committee, and then throwing them on the ground. At this time they were in a state of alcoholic intoxication. The side of the state prosecution was sure that the men acted in a group of persons by prior agreement and wanted to "express a disdainful attitude towards the state symbols of the Republic of Belarus."
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2023.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony
Alekseychikov and Sergey Aleinikov were found guilty of climbing on the roofs of administrative buildings on the night of January 16-17, 2022 in the agro-town of Pokolyubichi, Gomel region, tore off state flags from the local House of Culture and the village executive committee, and then threw them on the ground. At this time they were in a state of alcoholic intoxication. The side of the state prosecution was sure that the men acted in a group of persons by prior agreement and wanted to "express a disdainful attitude towards the state symbols of the Republic of Belarus."
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2023.
1 year imprisonment in a penal colony
Initially, the 30-year-old man was charged only with being one of the first, on September 29, 2021, to leave a comment on Instagram under a post about the news about the deceased employee of the state security committee: «the earth will be concrete for the bandit».
Soon a video appeared on the channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where the Rogach was forced to confess to the crime and repent on camera. The man was also forced to say that he is a supporter of the LGBT community and promises to improve.
During the investigation, which lasted 11 months, the investigators brought additional charges of insulting a representative of the authorities and organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
According to human rights activists, he was released on October 20, 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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