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.
Trial outcome 15.12.2023
19 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 19.03.2024
the sentence was upheld.
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An EPAM employee. Arrested for donations. Dmitry's daughter was nine months old at the time of his arrest.
On February 6, 2024, the appeal was heard. The verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 07.12.2023:
5 years imprisonment in a maximum security colony
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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.”
Trial outcome 14.09.2023:
2.5 years imprisonment in a colony
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It is known that Danilchik was detained in Slonim in August 2023 and initially arrested for 15 days, after which a criminal case was opened .
According to the prosecution materials, Danilchik “repeatedly posted in extremist chats on the Telegram messenger and in public chats on the YouTube video hosting service information of an offensive nature against Lukashenko, degrading his honor, personal dignity and authority. From February 2022 to July 2023, he posted on the Internet in messages and comments that are indecent in form and derogatory in intent towards government officials in connection with the performance of their official duties."
Trial outcome 30.05.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 18.07.2024
unknown.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown.
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He was detained in early May 2023, when he came to deliver a parcel to his brother Maksim Lopatin, who was detained in the Machulishchi case. Before that, the man lived in Lithuania. He was detained in the same case of sabotage in Machulishchi and charged under Article 289 of the Criminal Code. Later, the article was reclassified to 361-2 of the Criminal Code (financing of extremist activity).
At the trial, Andrei did not admit guilt.
On July 5, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 19.04.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 05.07.2024
unknown.
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8 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.
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It became known that, after the elections in August 2020, Lapikov posted on his Instagram page a post with a photograph of Alexander Lukashenko in the uniform of the SS (a paramilitary formation of the Nazis, responsible, among other things, for crimes against humanity). The publication was accompanied by a poem, the text of which is currently unknown.
On December 5, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 07.09.2023:
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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His trial began on September 4, 2023 in the Minsk City Court. This is the same Minsk resident whom people “recaptured” from arrest at a picket to collect signatures on May 31, 2020, after he shouted “Ganba!” by traffic police officers. Now Evgeniy is being tried in a criminal case.
On November 17, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 07.09.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 17.11.2023
unknown.
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According to pro-government media, he was convicted of sending the data of three of his former colleagues to one of the “extremist” Telegram channels.
On October 24, 2023, a court hearing was held on the subject of “the release of the convicted person from a sentence of imprisonment, the execution of which was suspended.”
Trial outcome 08.09.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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He was detained for participating in the 2020 protests and for active public criticism of the illegal actions of government agencies and the regime as a whole. Later, his daughter and son were detained for participating in protests; they later managed to travel abroad. Also three more people were detained together in Alexander, who were convicted at the end of May for participating in protests.
Trial outcome 23.11.2023:
6.5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.
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A pharmacist by education, Dmitry is accused under six articles of the criminal code.
According to the state prosecution , from August 2020 to February 2023, the man transferred 68 euros to the accounts of the Belsat information resource, as well as 68 euros and 78 dollars to the accounts of the Bysol Solidarity Fund. In addition, for more than a year he transferred money from a media resource - "whose materials are recognized as extremist", as well as 33 euros to the accounts of the Kastus Kalinouski Regiment.
The defendant made photocopies of departmental documents that were sent to the pharmacy and sent them to Telegram channels, which Lukashenko's servants call "extremist groups." During the first court hearing, it became known that the documents included information about the verification of military registration cards of those liable for military service, about the disappearance of some Ukrainian-made medicines from the Belarusian market, an appeal from the Belarusian Union of Women in connection with the situation at the border, and a decision by the Ministry of Health. In addition, the man recorded a video from the pharmacy's outdoor surveillance cameras showing the movement of Russian military equipment and also sent it to Telegram channels.
On 28.11.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 04.09.2023:
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
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Former head physician of the Belarus sanatoriums in Lithuania and Russia. According to pro-government media, he was detained in the summer of 2021. He is accused of treason against the state for “collecting data about Belarusians who were vacationing in sanatoriums.” In addition, Belarus 1 claims, Kobel collected “information about Lukashenko’s residence in Sochi.”
On November 24, 2023, an appeal took place in his case, and in December he was sent to a colony to serve his sentence.
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Convicted for participating in protests, as well as for comments on social networks.
Trial outcome 16.08.2023:
unknown
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In 2019, the man became the city chess champion, and also won the quick tournament in Osipovichi. On July 19, 2023, the court sent Yarotsky for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
Freelance journalist from Pinsk, owner of the website and TikTok page “about Stolin”.
Alexander lived alone in Polesie for a long time, so his detention became known by chance. Concerned people became worried that he had not been in touch for a long time. It turned out that Alexander was placed in Brest pre-trial detention center-7. According to unverified information, he is charged with “assisting extremist activities.”
Alexander is also the father of the guy who “dismantled” the water cannon in Minsk during the 2020 protests.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs , the man made videos with incriminating evidence, showed them to local entrepreneurs and demanded money for “silence.” He also allegedly “promoted the activities of an extremist telegram channel whose administrators are located abroad.”
On May 28, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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