Vladimir was accused of administering the community in vk.com calling for the recognition of the Belarusian language as the only state language in Belarus.
In February 2021, Vladimir Butkovets appealed to the Investigative Committee of Gomel with a request to interrogate him as a witness in the case of a human rights defender Leonid Sudalenko, to whom he repeatedly applied for legal assistance.
In the summer of 2022, Vladimir was dismissed from his job as «politically unreliable».
Vladimir was detained on September 5, 2022, he was sentenced to seven days of arrest under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code for «distribution of extremist materials».
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
On April 18, 2023, the Supreme Court replaced the deprivation of liberty with 3 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to an open-type correctional institution.
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.
Pavel Pashukevich was detained for comments in the telegram chat “Dyatlovo for life.”
On May 18, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
Detained for comments on social networks.
| 15.05.2023 | Сильно избит при задержании: подозрение на перелом двух рёбер. |
5 years imprisonment in a colony
On February 10, 2023, the first trial was held under Articles 369 and 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, the appeal hearing was on April 7, 2023.
On October 16, 2023, a new trial was held under Articles 369 and 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus; no appeal was filed.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
Semyon was accused of participating in the November protest in 2020 and of allegedly paying his subordinates salaries “in envelopes.”
On May 12, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Operator. Pavel collaborated with independent media. Earlier, the journalist was repeatedly detained while covering political actions in Belarus, including after 2020. As part of the criminal case, he was detained on February 9 after a search of his house, during which mobile phones and a video camera were removed. Subsequently, it became known that Pavel was charged under Part 1 of Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code.
| 21.02.2023 | Detained on January 20, 23, placed in the Zaslavsky District Department of Internal Affairs, at 01.01. F. Skorina, 20. They detained the KGB, near the car, in the district of Zaslavl. I received the first 15 days for a repost from the Radio Liberty website from 2017. |
4 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Previously, he was detained under an administrative article for participating in protests. Pro-government telegram channels reported on Andrei's detention. On the “repentant video” , the guy says that he was detained for distributing personal data of police officers, judges and called people to violent actions.
It is also reported that the man "left more than 2 thousand extremist messages, of which at least 100 records contain signs of violations of the law."
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Karpeshko and two of his friends had their own private chat for three people. After the beginning of the military invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine, in March 2022, Michael left a comment in which he wrote about the experience that wars could begin on the territory of Belarus. For this message, the man was detained and convicted.
Witnesses at the trial were two other chat participants – friends of Karpeshko, who had previously been brought to administrative responsibility under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus.
At the trial, the materials of the Karpeshko case indicated that the man had left a message in a «public chat in Telegram».
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
An employee of the Minsk Motor Plant. Detained on November 16, 2022, allegedly for participating in protest actions. Convicted on February 28, 2023.
2,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Former police officer Alexander Sazonov and Evgeniy Vasilevsky were detained almost a year ago - on February 27, 2022 in Minsk, and on March 1, both were punished with administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding mass events).
The Pervomaisky District Court of Minsk sentenced Sazonov to 13 days of arrest and Vasilevsky to 15 days for participating in a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The essence of the accusation is still unknown. Probably, we are talking about the transfer of personal data of security forces to protest chats.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with a general regime.
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