The doctor of the 1st qualification category of the ultrasound specialist of the Smorgon Central District Hospital.
He was detained for insulting Lukashenko.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Convicted of participating in protest actions 2020.
Restrictions on freedom with referral to an open-type institution.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
According to the prosecution, from January to December 2021 in various Telegram channels Pavel Voropai posted comments insulting the chairman of the Central Commission for Elections and Republican Referendums Lydia Yermoshina, Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Natalia Kochanova, Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei, Prosecutor General of Belarus Andrey Shved, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Korzyuk, Press Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Olga Chemadanova, Head of Vitebsk Customs Pavel Lobachev, as well as a prosecutor's employee, judges of one of the metropolitan districts and other government representatives.
3.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Ilya was found guilty for burning an effigy of Lukashenko and for participating in the March.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained on June 30, 2021 in the case of undermining the communications hub in Vileika.
According to the prosecution's version, which was announced at the trial, Gulevich and Glotov, dressed in camouflage uniforms and took firearms, ammunition for an act of terrorism, entered the territory of a military facility. Glotov recorded explosive devices that had a damaging effect in a radius of at least 11 meters. After installation, they moved to a safe distance.
According to the expert's conclusion, the initiation of explosive devices took place in slow motion. One explosive device did not detonate simultaneously with the others, later it was defused and seized by the state security agencies.
In addition to imprisonment, Alexey was awarded a fine of 22 400 BYN.
20 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to investigators, he was detained for transmitting data to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. His wife is Ukrainian. He lived in Ukraine and returned to Belarus in 2021 because of his sick parents. He was detained by the KGB, they tortured him all night to make him confess that he had previously fought in Ukraine, they called his wife and promised to send him his head. After that, Yaroslav was released. A year later, he was detained again, now he is in a pre-trial detention center.
On May 4, 2023, he was sentenced under two articles (370 and 295 of the Criminal Code) to 2 years of imprisonment; after the prosecutor's protest, the sentence was doubled. He is in pretrial detention because two more criminal cases have been initiated. He is accused under the article on treason (part 1 of article 356 of the Criminal Code) for "transferring data to the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
In the summer of 2024, it became known that Yaroslav was again transferred to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1.
11 years of imprisonment in a colony.
Advocate. She was detained in early June 2022, two days after her 40th birthday, for leaking data to Telegram channels. The security forces came to detain a woman with machine guns and bulletproof vests - they climbed into the windows and broke down the door.
In March 2023, it became known that she was also charged under Art. 203-1 of the Criminal Code (Illegal actions regarding information about private life) and Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code. According to investigators, she allegedly organized an unauthorized mass event when she held a consultation near Akrestsina in August 2020.
In the wild , she left an elderly father and a 19-year-old son who has been suffering from Crohn's disease since the age of 16.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
He was detained in Bobruisk. Then he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest, but after that he was not released, but was sent to Minsk to the detention center on Akrestsin Street; at the beginning of September he was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1.
Sergei is accused in a criminal case.
Sergei is the cousin of the deputy commander of the Kalinovsky regiment, Vadim Kabanchuk.
On July 4, another closed trial of Sergei Franchuk took place. This time he was accused of insulting Alexander Lukashenko. Franchuk had another six months added to his first sentence of three years in prison.
On September 28, 2023, the appeal was considered after the verdict of the second court. The verdict came into force.
3.5 years in prison in a penal colony.
He is a musician.
Telegram channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus published the news that a 32 year old man allegedly insulted Lukashenko in the comments (the comment consists of only one word «trash», written under the news with a quote from Lukashenko that special services with vast experience are working against us today) .
The second charge also concerns Sergey's Internet activity. According to the prosecution, no later than 14:39 on February 27, 2022, the man sent a photo of the bulletin with two checkmarks to the NEXTA telegram bot. Thus, according to the prosecution, Sergey committed a crime under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Promotion of extremist activity).
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
12 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
A 2nd class lawyer, a former employee of the prosecutor's office of the Frunzensky district of Minsk, worked for some time as an HR specialist in an IT company. Natalia is accused of leaking information to the Black Book of Belarus.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Unknown
He was detained for driving near Pinsk and looking at the location of military units. According to the investigation, Anton sent this data to the Belarusian telegram channel and to someone in Ukraine.
Anton was tried for the issued state secret. The trial was held behind closed doors, so the details of how the meeting was held are unknown.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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