Artem Zubryakov is an employee of «Belagro». He was detained at the end of September 2022 together with colleagues. It was reported that criminal cases were opened against 4 of the detainees, and about 20 were detained. Telegram channels supporting the state power of the Republic of Belarus published news in which they wrote that the company's employees had been actively protesting since 2020.
During a search of the office in the fall of 2022, paraphernalia and furniture in red and white colors were seized.
Artem Zubkov noted that he was detained for sign up to telegram channels recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus and forwarding materials from these channels.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Convicted for participating in protests in 2020. Tkachenko was identified from photographs and videos found on the Internet, as well as from telephone connections provided to the security forces by the man's mobile operator.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility
The pro-government telegram channel contained information on a case whose circumstances fit Gulin's description. According to that report, at night there was a drunken company near the FAP, and one of them pulled the national flag hanging there. The flag was torn, the wooden flagpole was broken.
1 year of restriction of liberty with referral to an open correctional institution.
According to pro-government telegram channels, four people were detained - they are called a "sleeper cell of extremists" who had "external connections" with Belarusian volunteers fighting in Ukraine. Among them is Dmitry.
All of them are from Gomel and, judging by their posts on social networks, have been friends for a long time, participating together in an international game of Beer Pong in Gomel. After the brutal detention , the friends were forced to record a “repentance video” and say that they created a chat where they corresponded with each other, and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they allegedly insulted Lukashenko several times in correspondence, and also wrote “wrong” comments. Another accusation is that the guys “had external connections” with Belarusian volunteers who are fighting for Ukraine. Apparently, this was the basis for initiating a criminal case under the article “promoting extremist activities.”
On May 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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According to pro-government telegram channels, four people were detained - they are called a "sleeper cell of extremists" who had "external connections" with Belarusian volunteers fighting in Ukraine. Among them is Igor.
All of them are from Gomel and, judging by their posts on social networks, have been friends for a long time, participating together in an international game of Beer Pong in Gomel.
After the brutal detention, the friends were forced to record a “repentance video” and say that they created a chat where they corresponded with each other, and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they allegedly insulted Lukashenko several times in correspondence, and also wrote “wrong” comments. Another accusation is that the guys “had external connections” with Belarusian volunteers who are fighting for Ukraine. Apparently, this was the basis for initiating a criminal case under the article “promoting extremist activities.”
On May 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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According to pro-government telegram channels, four people were detained - they are called a "sleeper cell of extremists" who had "external connections" with Belarusian volunteers fighting in Ukraine. Among them was Vladimir.
All of them are from Gomel and, judging by their posts on social networks, have been friends for a long time, participating together in an international game of Beer Pong in Gomel.
After the brutal detention, the friends were forced to record a “repentance video” and say that they created a chat where they corresponded with each other, and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they allegedly insulted Lukashenko several times in correspondence, and also wrote “wrong” comments. Another accusation is that the guys “had external connections” with Belarusian volunteers who are fighting for Ukraine. Apparently, this was the basis for initiating a criminal case under the article “promoting extremist activities.”
On May 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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An employee of the IT company «Game Stream». The telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs published news with a video from the search in Ksenia's house.
According to law enforcement officials, in 2020-2021, through donations on Facebook, she made 9 payments to solidarity funds totaling 425 USD. Now a criminal case has been opened against her under the article «financing of extremist activities».
It is reported that during the search, a white-red-white flag, 20,000 USD and office equipment were found and seized from Alkenova.
4 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
On 25.08.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
In September 2024, it became known that another criminal case had been opened against Evgeny.
2.5 years in prison
On April 04, 2023, the trial began in closed mode.
It is known that prior to his arrest, Nikolay Davydov worked as a leading design engineer of JSC «Gomselmash».
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained in early March, near the village of Voronovo, Grodno region, he tried to leave Belarus for Lithuania. While examining his mobile phone, police officers found subscriptions to telegram channels, recognized by the authorities as “extremist”. First, the court arrested Viktor Zolotarevsky under an article on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), but later he was charged under criminal articles due to registration in the Peramoga Plan chat bot and a video sent to the Nexta telegram channel. The video showed a conversation between the Ukrainian military and relatives in Gomel.
Zolotarevsky lived in Minsk and worked in the carriage depot of the Minsk branch of the Belarusian Railway, lived in a hostel.
After the arrest, he was fired.
2.5 years in prison in a penal colony.
Detained together with his wife in the case of sabotage in Machulishchi.
Human rights activists received information that on March 3, Maxim Lopatin was detained by employees of the State Security Committee in the case of sabotage in Machulishchi. The man is being held in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.
Lopatin was severely beaten during the arrest. A film was released on ONT, which tells about some high-profile detentions, including the mention of Maxim. Allegedly his friend is a psychotherapist Evgenia Tochinskaya, who lives in Poland, asked to bring a Ukrainian agent Shvets from Stolin to the Lagoy highway on February 27.
The video shows that the man has dentures on his jaw, which may mean that it was broken. After splinting, there should be a serious stage of rehabilitation with eating and drinking water through a tube.
On March 23, Maxim's wife, Lyudmila Lopatina, was also detained.
The couple has two juvenile children.
Activist from Baranovichi. Igor has a disability of the 3rd group, because. 10 years ago, he got into an accident and had his leg amputated. He was arrested on February 23, 2023, sentenced to 15 days, then transferred to a pre-trial detention center under a criminal article.
According to the investigation, in different periods of time from May 1, 2020 to May 23, 2022, Shumilov published four posts in Odnoklassniki with satirical images, in which the investigation considered insulting Lukashenka and government officials, as well as slandering Lukashenka. It is known that on one of the images Lukashenka, together with the listed persons, is depicted as prisoners who are kept in a prison cell. At the trial, Igor fully admitted his guilt. He explained that the publications on his page appeared only after he "liked" these posts. He himself did not understand at that time that these drawings could be regarded as an insult.
4.5 years in prison in a penal colony.
According to the materials of the prosecution, Vladislav Bohan took an active part in the post-election protest held in the city on the night of August 9-10, 2020, blocked the way to vehicles, disobeyed the lawful demands of police officers, shouted slogans.
1.5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Bodybuilder, local historian. Previously, a man was detained for participating in protests. On March 16, 2023, he was arrested for “distributing extremist materials” and sentenced to 10 days. The man did not come out and was transferred to a pre-trial detention center. The original charge was for insulting Lukashenko.
In May 2024, he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a new criminal case; his trial began again on May 7, 2024. In addition to him, Andrei Stabulyanets and Denis Tsybulsky were also involved in the case, who was convicted a year ago for participating in protests in Minsk (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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