Alesya was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, people sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
Maxim was arrested in May 2022 and convicted in August of that year in a criminal case under the article "Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" for participating in post-election protests that took place in 2020.
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unknown years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility.
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He was convicted for his participation in the 2020 protests.
On June 12, 2024, Yegor's trial was rescheduled for malicious disobedience to the prison administration. He faces an additional year of imprisonment.
According to calculations , he was supposed to be released in the fall of 2025 .
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Alexey Avsyukevich was 41 years old. He worked as a worker - at the "Teplovye Seti" owned by Grodnoenergo and at other enterprises in Grodno. Alexey was in the "Besporadki" database . He was included in the police list of extremists on October 28, 2022. This usually happens immediately after a criminal sentence comes into force.
Alexey died on October 11, 2024.
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A Ukrainian citizen born in Chernihiv. Zakharenko is also charged in the case with Larisa Krupa. The women are charged with failure to report a crime (Part 2 of Article 406 of the Criminal Code) and espionage (Article 358 of the Criminal Code). The trial will be held behind closed doors.
Natalia traveled to Belarus in the second half of 2022. She helped Ukrainians who were stuck in Belarus and unable to leave the country on their own. She traveled to Belarus in her own car. Zakharenko helped evacuate approximately 30 people from Belarus.
During another trip to Belarus, the woman disappeared. She stopped communicating on July 17, 2023.
It is known that, in addition to the prison term, the court ordered the confiscation of Natalia's minibus.
Her friend, Larisa Krupa, a Belarusian from Mozyr, was fined 100 basic units (4,000 Belarusian rubles) for "failure to report a crime."
The circumstances of the charges are unknown, as are the details of the trial - the court was closed.
On May 24, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
On the evening of June 28, 2024, news broke of the release of five political prisoners from Belarusian prison colonies. Ukrainian authorities secured the release of their citizens in a prisoner exchange. Natalia Zakharenko, Pavlo Kupriyenko, Lyudmila Goncharenko, Kateryna Bryukhanova, and Mykola Shvets, a defendant in the "Machulishchi case," were released. The terms of the exchange were not disclosed. The Vatican was reported to have participated in the release. The released political prisoners were brought to Ukraine on June 28; their photo from Zhulyany Airport was published in the media.
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