On January 9, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court considered the case of two Homel residents - Vladislav Yatsenko and Kirill Plakushchev. According to the investigation, one of them repeatedly posted publications in one of the social networks calling for participation in the battalion of Kastus Kalinouski, «Azov» and other formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And I also transferred 21 EUR for Kastus Kalinouski's battalion. And both guys were accused of putting cynical inscriptions and drawings on the walls of buildings. The court estimated the damage at 130 BYN.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
On January 9, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court considered the case of two Homel residents - Vladislav Yatsenko and Kirill Plakushchev. According to the investigation, one of them repeatedly posted publications in one of the social networks calling for participation in the battalion of Kastus Kalinouski, «Azov» and other formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And I also transferred 21 EUR for Kastus Kalinouski's battalion. And both guys were accused of putting cynical inscriptions and drawings on the walls of buildings. The court estimated the damage at 130 BYN.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Andrey is registered in the urban settlement. Ushachi (Vitebsk region), but in recent years he lived and worked in Russia. On September 23, 2022, he was detained in Moscow and placed in custody due to the fact that the Belarusian security forces had put Andrei Nikolaevich on the international wanted list.
As was announced at the trial in Brest, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office refused to extradite Protasevich to Belarus due to the absence of a crime under Russian laws in his actions.
However, he was expelled from Russia under the procedure of “violation of migration legislation” and transferred to Belarus. In Belarus, Andrei Nikolaevich has been in custody since November 7, 2022. Sentencedto three months of arrest for commenting on social networks.
It is known that Andrei had another trial, under Art. 368 part 1 (insulting Lukashenko). The result is unknown.
April 2, 2024 Andrey had a hearing of his appeal. It is known that Andrei began serving his sentence.
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It is known that Alexey Alekseychik worked as a transplant doctor at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology for more than 20 years. He is considered one of the best specialists of the center, who has performed many bone marrow transplant operations.
In the spring of 2022, law enforcement officers gained access to the internal chat of employees of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center, where they discussed the political situation in Belarus, the work of the independent trade union «Panacea» and much more. It is assumed that the detention of the transplantologist is connected with this chat.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Vladimir was accused of leaving an offensive comment on the vk.com social network under a post about Lukashenko. The post included a photo of the latter and the text of his speech on the topic of military operations on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. Vladimir left a comment from his sister's page and phone number when he was visiting her.
The man fully admitted his guilt. The sentence has entered into force and the guy is serving his sentence.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In the period from August 2020 to July 26, 2022, Alexander administered the telegram chat «Zhyve Luninets!», for which he was detained on July 27, 2022.
On November 24, 2022, by the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the telegram chat «Zhyve Luninets!» was recognized as an extremist formation on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
The trial of Alexander took place on February 9, 2023, where he was accused under 5 articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus: Part 1 of Article 361-1, Part 1 of Article 342, part 2 of Article 367, Article 369, part 3 of Article 361.
It is known about Alexander Sumar that in 2006 he worked in the Luninetsky district police Department as a forensic expert. In recent years, he lived in Moscow (Russia).
9 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Rodion lived abroad for some time in several countries, and then decided to return to Belarus.
Shortly after returning home, he was detained by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption. The comments for which he is accused are dated 2020.
Perhaps the guy was found out a long time ago and started a case against him, but they waited until he returned to Belarus to detain him. Law enforcement officials claim that «he faces from 5 to 12 years in prison» — probably we are talking about a criminal case for «Incitement hostility and discord».
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the prosecution , Yevgeniy, while at his place of residence, on March 1, 2022, posted an offensive message against Alexander Lukashenko in a group on the Telegram social network. This follows from the conclusion of the forensic linguistic examination.
Previously, the man was brought to administrative responsibility for storing extremist information products on his mobile phone.
On March 24, 2024, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Andrei was convicted of slandering Lukashenko and participating in protests 2020. The circumstances of the case are unknown, as the court session was held in closed form.
On March 22, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Nikolai is accused of "financing terrorist activity", under which article he faces 8 to 12 years in prison.
The man's last known place of employment was the Republican Olympic Training Center for Track and Field.
On June 6, 2023, he was sentenced under Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code to 6 years in a maximum security penal colony and a large fine. Other details of the case are unknown.
On September 1, 2023, Judge V. Cherevach was to consider the appeal of the political prisoner in the Supreme Court. At the moment, the first sentence has entered into force, so when the second was issued, Vasilevich was already considered to have a previous conviction.
On September 12, 2023, another trial of Nikolai took place in the Pervomaisky District Court. This time, he was accused of "financing terrorist activity." In total, Svetlana Cherepovich sentenced him to 9 years and 6 months in a maximum security penal colony for his donations, as well as a fine of 600 basic units. The pro-government film states that he made at least 54 donations to solidarity funds.
On November 14, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
9.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
Pro-government channels posted “repentant videos”, where Pavel says that he worked in the Department of Security until 2018, was detained for transferring personal data of Department employees to the Black Book of Belarus. The data was taken from the telephone directory book.
At home he left a wife and small children (1 year and 3 years).
6 years in prison under conditions of enhanced regime.
Sergey Kudritsky, who worked as a sales specialist, was detained on June 24, 2022 and placed in custody until trial, and his wife, a leading specialist of one of the departments of MTBank, Margarita, was released on a large bail, since there is a minor child in the family.
According to the materials of the prosecution, Sergei and Margarita took an active part in an unauthorized mass event in Minsk on August 30, 2020.
It became known in court that Sergei was also detained on June 9, 2020. Then a bag of marijuana was allegedly found in his belongings. So the investigation had another article — 328, the charge on which was considered at the same time.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
For several months he was in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee, then in the pre-trial detention center № 1 in Minsk, later he was transferred to the pre-trial detention center in Grodno.
Nikolay is a former customs officer, an activist of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party «Gramada». He is accused of helping those who wanted to illegally cross the Belarusian-Lithuanian border for money, as well as creating an extremist formation or participating in it.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Daniil, who worked at the Grodno branch of Beltelecom, was detained for several comments on social networks in early October 2022 and placed in custody pending trial.
On April 11, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with a general regime.
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