Alexandra was detained after returning from Poland. She was convicted under eight articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, including “participation in an extremist formation” and “promoting extremist activities.”
In March 2024, an appeal was considered, as a result of which Alexandra’s term of imprisonment was reduced by one year, without the right to appeal.
It became known that on May 31, 2024, she will be retried under Articles 369 and 361 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
9 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony
39 year old Irena is a specialist of the Minsk City Agency for State Registration and Land Cadastre, she was detained in the summer of 2022. It is known that the woman has 4 minor children. Slander was charged with four articles of the Criminal Code.
6 years imprisonment in a colony.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The man has a higher education and works as a driver in a private company. Has six children, of which three are juveniles. One of them is two years old.
Dmitry was accused of leaving offensive comments in a telegram chat in January 2022 against the Minsk prosecutor, the captain of the Minsk traffic police, the captain of the Bobruisk militia of the special purpose detachment, the judge of the Leninsky district court of Grodno, the police major, the deputy head of law enforcement and prevention of the police department of the Frunzensky district of Minsk, police sergeants of the special purpose detachment Mogilev Regional Department of Internal Affairs .
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained for comments on social networks. Maxim is waiting for his 10-year-old son at home.
7 years imprisonment in a colony.
A 34-year-old resident of Bobruisk. After 10 days in the Okrestina detention center, he was transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1.
The man was charged with donating to an organization recognized as terrorist in Belarus. He faces 8 to 12 years in prison.
Dmitry Sluk did not appeal the verdict and was transferred to one of the Belarusian colonies to serve his sentence.
On June 24, 2024, the conditions of detention were tightened, and Dmitry was transferred to prison regime.
8.5 years in prison
Detained for comments on social networks.
On July 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
1.5 years imprisonment in a colony
Born in Ukraine. European Kickboxing Champion. Presumably detained for wanting to fight in Ukraine.
At the trial, Pavel stated that he initially reacted to the war in Ukraine on emotions, but later abandoned the idea of military operations. In addition, Pavel is charged with illegally crossing the state border with the Russian Federation in the Republic of Belarus of potent substances (stanozolol 100 tablets), illegal purchase and storage of ammunition (16 cartridge cases from 9mm cartridges, 12 cartridges of 9mm caliber).
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Maxim is a Minsk resident. Has a higher education. The man is divorced. He once worked as a security guard, later as a builder. Then he opened an individual entrepreneur and erected monuments in the cemetery. I've been unemployed lately.
Friends recall that Maxim served his military service in one of the Minsk “special forces” units.
Maxim is accused of blowing up a police car near the Central District Department of Internal Affairs.
The incident happened on the night of January 7-8, 2022, not far from the building of the Central District Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk. A criminal case has been opened for blowing up a car under Article 289 (repeated act of terrorism).
Investigators later added that on the night of January 13, he allegedly damaged the Tabakerka kiosk and a trash can in the same way.
On May 26, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
15 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to the materials of the investigation, from February 2021 to October 2022, from February 2021 to October 2022, Nikolai Korol posted messages in various instant messengers in which he outlined slanderous fabrications against Lukashenko, publicly insulted him, as well as the leaders of the Central Election Commission and the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly, a number of other state servants and a judge.
On October 11, 2022, he, in order to facilitate the activities of the destructive Telegram channel, whose information products were previously recognized by the court as extremist materials, produced and sent a message about the movement of military aircraft in the Brest region.
Nicholas has a wife and a one-year-old son.
4 years in prison
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Sergey is originally from Kherson, Ukraine, but has lived in Belarus almost all his life. He has worked in various blue-collar jobs all his life. He has two minor children.
The man was detained in February 2023. In a pro-government video, he says that he left comments on Telegram and registered with the Plan Peramoga chatbot. He was first convicted in October 2023 for "inciting other social hatred" (Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code).
On 08.12.2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
Sergei's next trial will begin on September 27 in the Minsk City Court. He is charged under four articles - "participation in an extremist group" (Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code), "incitement of other social hatred" (Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code), "insulting a government official" (Article 369 of the Criminal Code), and "insulting Lukashenko" (Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code). Sergei faces up to five years in prison in addition to his previous term.
Trial outcome 05.10.2023: unknown years of imprisonment under general regime conditions.
Appeal 08.12.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Dmitry Stepanov was put in jail before the trial. At first, the man was tried under administrative articles — and then a criminal case was opened for creating an extremist formation and managing it (Part 1 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). The term extremist formation refers to the local Brest telegram chat «GOBK».
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
The man was accused of participating in protests in 2020 and entering the roadway. "Together with other people, they stood in a clutch, clapped their hands, shouted loudly, shouted various slogans," the court order says.
At the rally, the police pushed Kirill back with a metal shield and cut his head until it bled with a rubber truncheon.
Komarov fully admitted his guilt and repented of his deed.
Kirill has a specialized secondary education and has a minor child as a dependent.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Former employee of BelVEB bank. Vasily was detained in early July 2022. Pro-government telegram channels claimed that he was detained for allegedly leaking personal data of security forces, teachers and doctors. In the “repentance” video, Ermakov said that he participated in rallies in Minsk and passed information about Interior Ministry employees to the “Black Book of Belarus” bot, “using his official powers.”
Vasily was severely beaten, he even lost consciousness, his ribs were broken. They were transferred to pre-trial detention center-1 from the hospital.
He has 1 child.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony under a reinforced regime.
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