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.
According to the investigation , from November 2020 to March 2022, the accused, using a mobile phone in chats of Telegram channels recognized by the court as extremist materials, published 17 comments of an offensive nature with obscene language addressed to the judge, internal affairs officers and other government officials, and also Lukashenko.
On April 11, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
She was convicted of insulting A. Lukashenko about household chemicals. After that, she again insulted Lukashenko on the phone by dialing 102. She has a leg disease, cannot move independently, and is disabled.
2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Taxi driver. According to pro-government telegram channels, he was detained for comments on social networks. During his arrest, Sergei’s arm was broken.
On August 2, 2024, an appeal against the verdict will be considered.
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The bass guitarist of the band «TOR BAND».
On January 20, 2023, it became known that the «TOR BAND» group was recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus. Dmitry Golovach and his wife Yulia, Yevgeny Burlo and Andrei Yaremchik were added to the extremist formation of the State Security Committee.
This is the first musical group to be included in the list of extremist formations.
7.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
According to pro-government telegram channels, he was detained for numerous comments on social networks.
On October 31, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
3.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Graduated from BSUIR, systems engineer. For a long time he worked in RUE "Beltelecom" in his specialty.
Has 4 children from different marriages. Recently lived in Brest.
He is involved in the "terrorism" case. According to the prosecution , from July 14, 2020 to January 6, 2022, on the territory of Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other states, "an organized criminal group was created and operated, the main purpose of which was to commit an indefinite number of extremist crimes. The crimes were supposed to to commit persons radically inclined towards the current government, including former active military, law enforcement officers, primarily special forces, hand-to-hand combat athletes, businessmen and others who shared the views of seizing state power by unconstitutional means.
There are 18 defendants in the case, 15 of whom are in custody, and three were convicted in absentia. The process took four and a half months.
12 years of imprisonment in a colony under a reinforced regime
He is being investigated for terrorism.
According to the prosecution , from July 14, 2020 to January 6, 2022, on the territory of Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other states, “an organized criminal group was created and operated, the main goal of which was to commit an indefinite number of crimes of an extremist nature. The crimes should have been committed by persons radically opposed to the current government, including former active military personnel, law enforcement officers, primarily special forces, hand-to-hand combat athletes, businessmen and others who shared the views of seizing state power through unconstitutional means.” The “criminal group” included Prokopyev himself, Vitaly, Anastasia, Vladislav and Olga Voitekhovich, Sergei Lisovsky, Nikolai Roy, Vladimir Savenkov, Sergei Sokolov, Pyotr Yurkevich, Igor Chemyakin and others.
Peter has a disabled child, 14 years old.
On September 29, 2023, the Supreme Court began considering appeals from political prisoners in the “Gaidukevich case.” The proceedings were continued on October 4, 2023. It is known that the verdict came into force and Peter began serving his sentence, the place of imprisonment is being established.
9 years of imprisonment in a colony under a reinforced regime, with the first five years served in a prison.
44-year-old resident of Baranovichi.
It is known that after graduating from BSU, he continued to work in the prosecutor's office of the Frunzensky district. At the time of 2020, Pavel worked as a senior investigator in the investigative department of the city of Minsk.
According to the prosecution , from July 14, 2020 to January 6, 2022, on the territory of Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other states, "an organized criminal group was created and operated, the main purpose of which was to commit an indefinite number of extremist crimes. The crimes were supposed to to commit persons radically inclined towards the current government, including former active military, law enforcement officers, primarily special forces, hand-to-hand combat athletes, businessmen and others who shared the views of seizing state power by unconstitutional means.
There are 18 defendants in the case, 15 of whom are in custody, and three were convicted in absentia. The process took four and a half months. At the trial, the main person involved in the case, deputy Oleg Gaidukevich, acted as a witness (for some reason, not the victim) , who stated that they wanted to set fire to his house - they threw three Molotov cocktails. Then only the cat of the deputy suffered.
9 years of imprisonment in a colony under a reinforced regime
Director of Europcar , a partner company of Uber in Minsk. Dmitry is still in custody. It is known that in November 2020 he was detained under Art. 23.34 Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus for participating in protests. In September 2021, the charge was reclassified to Art. 357 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
He is involved in the case of arson of the house of deputy Oleg Gaidukevich.
According to the prosecution , from July 14, 2020 to January 6, 2022, on the territory of Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other states, "an organized criminal group was created and operated, the main purpose of which was to commit an indefinite number of extremist crimes. The crimes were supposed to to commit persons radically inclined towards the current government, including former active military, law enforcement officers, primarily special forces, hand-to-hand combat athletes, businessmen and others who shared the views of seizing state power by unconstitutional means.
There are 18 defendants in the case, 15 of whom are in custody, and three were convicted in absentia. The process took four and a half months.
11 years of imprisonment in a colony under a reinforced regime with deprivation of the right to hold positions related to the performance of organizational, administrative and administrative duties for a period of five years
Vladimir is accused of posting photos from the August 2020 protest actions in Vitebsk on his social networks.
Vladimir was detained on December 14, 2022 after three more people connected with the ROK'I PUB gastropub were detained (the founders of the institution Ilya Kulman and Pavel Petrunin, the name and post of the third detainee are unknown).
As reported by «Vitebsk Viasna», according to pub visitors, one of the reasons for the detention could be a recent concert by a Belarusian singer performing under the pseudonym Iva Sativa (real name Yana Smolyaga, she is the wife of former political prisoner Levon Khalatryan). But, probably, the concert was an occasion to check the activities of the institution. As it turned out later, the Department of Financial Investigations opened a case for non-payment of taxes. Most likely, Bulavsky, as an organizer of concert activities in Vitebsk, was also detained as part of this case.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Yuri was detained on January 12, 2022 right at the department of the university where he works.
Yuri Bubnov has been the head of the Department of Humanities at the Belarusian University of Food and Chemical Technologies (formerly MGUP) since 1997. His portrait is on the veterans honor board of the Belarusian State University of Technology (formerly MGUP). The man was awarded the badge «Vydatnik adukatsi». In Mogilev, Yuri Bubnov is known as an expert sociologist, one of the founders of the Center for Urban Initiatives and the festival «Dranik-fest».
2 years in prison
The man was convicted for leaving publications in his ok.ru profile that contained humiliating information about Lukashenko. According to the prosecution, their goal was to publicly damage the authority of the state authorities and spread knowingly false information that humiliates Lukashenko.
Anatoly pleaded guilty in full.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the materials of the prosecution, Alexey Yaroshevich, back in April 2021, using a mobile phone on a page on a social network ok.ru posted an image of Alexander Lukashenko and accompanied it with an obscene text message.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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