He was found guilty of facilitating extremist activities under part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code. The case was considered by Judge Oleg Khoroshko.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Valentin Fedorenko sent 160 text messages from a push-button phone to the Polish number of the Belsat TV channel. For this, he was accused of facilitating extremist activities. Valentin, who suffers from a mental illness, faced up to six years in prison. According to the source of Radio Svaboda, Valentin suffers from an incurable mental illness. The diagnosis was made back in the 1980s. After that, the pensioner did not go to the doctors. At the trial, the examination confirmed that the disease is incurable and only remission can occur. Fedorenko was sent for a new forensic examination.
In the messages, the man wrote about the movement of Russian military equipment in Gomel and the takeoffs of Russian aircraft from the airfields of the Gomel region. At the court hearing, Valentin admitted his guilt and repented. He stated that he did not know that the Belsat TV channel was an extremist formation.
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Detained in the case of A. Hralovich. The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.
Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which Television News Agency showed in 2021.
It is known that Olga was held for a year in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee, where she was on a hunger strike. Then she was transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1.
«She was completely gray-haired. She was on hunger strike for a long time — she was even fed through the veins on her hands, so they were swollen like forest driftwood».
She began serving her sentence.
7,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.
Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which the Television News Agency showed in 2021.
According to the ONT film, Vladimir Trifonov is a guide across the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, through which he had to illegally transfer Alexey Khralovich.
He began serving his sentence.
14 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was convicted for his participation in the 2020 protests.
On June 12, 2024, Yegor was again scheduled for trial for malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of the correctional institution. He faces an extension of his prison term for another year.
4 years imprisonment in a colony
Since 1996, he has been actively involved in the life of Catholic youth. He participated in local and parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2004. He was one of the initiators of the formation of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party. But since 2011 he has withdrawn from active participation in political life.
He was convicted, among other things, for posting information about the «Freedom March» on his page on August 15, 2020, on August 17 he posted information in which he analyzes the mistakes of the last march, on August 20, 2020 he posted information about how to act when suppressing protests by law enforcement officers. He left more than twenty such messages.
Artyukhov was also accused of direct participation in one such action in Minsk in August 2020.
Nikolay admitted his guilt in the commission of the acts incriminated to him in full at the court hearing, did not deny the authorship of the texts and messages that he left on the social network vk.ru and facebook.com.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Arthur is from Pinsk. He studied at the Slonim Medical College, graduated with honors and upon graduation was assigned to Grodno. He entered the Grodno State Medical University, in addition to this he worked as a paramedic for a visiting team in an ambulance.
According to pro-government telegram channels, he was detained for registering in the Peramoga plan, and also participated in “unauthorized mass events.”
On August 17, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
At the end of October 2022, six men were detained in Minsk for allegedly hanging a sewn white-red-white flag along with the flag of Ukraine on power line supports in Minsk on October 7. These are Igor Tepteev, Yuri Nesterenko, Victor Grinko, Valery Balabeshko, Vladimir Savelyev, Igor Tikach. Only the next day a post appeared on Anton Mot’s Telegram channel with a photo of the flag and the caption: “Minsk residents congratulate the Ukrainian people on the wonderful news from the Crimean bridge. Crime is Ukraine! Long live Belarus! Glory to Ukraine!”
It is reported that it was Yuri who took the photo, which later appeared in Anton Motolko’s tg channel. But Yuri himself said that he sent the photo only to a friendly chat.
On September 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
2 years imprisonment in a colony
In the summer of 2023, a trial was held to toughen Oleg’s sentence. After the appeal court, on September 5, 2023, Oleg was transferred to a colony.
3 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
3.5 years in prison.
Head of pre-billing and tariffication department of MTS.
According to the investigation materials , Kuzmin had access to personal information of MTS clients and from August 9, 2020 to April 8, 2021, “leaked” it to the telegram channels “Black Book of Belarus”, “Punisher of Belarus” and “All Violations!”
There were 57 victims - security forces, propagandists, officials, judges, prosecutors and members of their families. In addition, the investigation believes that “joint actions of Kuzmin with other persons” resulted in disruptions to the work of transport and enterprises “causing damage to Minsktrans in the amount of just over 22,500 rubles.”
Among the victims are, in particular, an employee of SB. Belarus today” Lyudmila Gladkaya , as well as member of the Belarusian Communist Party and deputy Sergei Klishevich .
7 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony
Andrey Fomin is 29 years old, he hails from Mogilev, but lived in Minsk. The guy graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. In the video of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was forced to say that he was the editor and author of articles for the «Vestniki» newspaper network. According to information from activists of the ByProsvet initiative, Andrey did not have access to newspaper accounts and did not know those who distribute them in Belarus.
As a result, the guy was charged for participating in the March on August 30, 2020 and transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1. Andrey fundamentally did not want to leave his country, he is writing a book, six cats are waiting for him at home.
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
At the beginning of October 2022, in the Moscow district of the capital, unknown persons hung a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine on a power line support. During operational search activities, police officers detained six Minsk residents aged 34 to 36 years who allegedly did this. Including Victor . Only the next day a post appeared on Anton Mot’s Telegram channel with a photo of the flag and the caption: “Minsk residents congratulate the Ukrainian people on the wonderful news from the Crimean bridge. Crime is Ukraine! Long live Belarus! Glory to Ukraine!”
Former employee of BelVEB Bank.
On September 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
At the beginning of January 2023, in one of the pro-government telegram channels, a video appeared with the detention of Sergei by GUBOP and AMON officers, who allegedly administered courtyard chats, including “Grodno Center 97%”; participated in protest rallies and called on others to participate in them, as well as to use violence against police officers, literally, “burn paddy wagons.”
5 years of imprisonment with serving the sentence in a correctional colony under enhanced security conditions.
As it became known from the court ruling, Anastasia, after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, moved from Belarus to Poland. While in a neighboring country, she tried to donate $16.71 from her Belarusian bank account via Internet banking to the Kalinovsky regiment, but the transaction did not go through.
Later, the political prisoner decided to return to Belarus, where she was detained. It should be noted that at the time of the transfer of funds by Anastasia, the Kalinovsky regiment was not recognized as an "extremist formation."
3 years in prison
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