Vladimir Zhikhar has been in custody since September 13, 2020. He is charged under three articles: roadblocking, violence against police, and even robbery.
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According to investigators, a 31-year-old resident of Žodzina made a homemade incendiary device consisting of a mixture of gasoline and kerosene and firecrackers in the evening of October 7th, 2020. After that, on the night of October 8th, he came to the building of Žodzina prosecutor's office, where on the porch he set fire to the manufactured device in order to demonstrate his disregard for the activities of law enforcement agencies.
14.07.2021
Following the results of the appeal court, the verdict remained unchanged.
18.06.2021
07/06/2021 Court of Appeal appointed
19.05.2021
03/20/21 according to the results of the commission, he was recognized as an extremist
Trial outcome:
5.5 years of imprisonment under a strengthened regime.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Grodno journalist, member of the Union of Poles of Belarus, publicist. The journalist and activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus was accused of inciting hatred and calling for sanctions. Andrey was detained on March 25, 2021. The indictment against the journalist states that Poczobut in the media called the USSR attack on Poland in 1939 an aggression. In addition, he was accused of statements in defense of the Polish minority in Belarus, articles in Gazeta Wyborcza about Belarusian protests in 2020, and a text in Magazyn Polski written in 2006 and dedicated to Anatoly Rodionik, one of the commanders of the Polish anti-communist underground in the Grodno region.
Pochobut spent more than 1.5 years in a pre-trial detention center. In October he was added to the “terrorist list.” It is known that Poczobut was offered to write a petition for pardon, but he refused.
Today he has been in the punishment cell almost continuously for six months. In IK-1 (Novopolotsk) he is regularly put under pressure, deprived of visits and transfers. Also, there are no calls from Andrey.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Arrested in relation to the 'Pinsk case' after protest meetings on August 9, 2020.
Trial outcome:
Sentenced to 5 years in prison
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Convicted for participation in the events on August, 10 in the area of the supermarket 'Riga' in accordance with Article 293 of the Criminal Code.
Trial outcome:
4,5 years in a medium-security prison
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
A citizen of Minsk on trial for slamming by hand three slams on a traffic police car. He is charged under Articles 342, 364 and 218 of the Criminal Code. Sentenced on February 23, 2021.
Trial outcome:
Sentenced to 4 years in prison
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
He was convicted of trying to stop a protester from being detained during a protest that took place on July 14, 2020 in Minsk.
Trial outcome 24.12.2020:
4 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The journalist and consultant for Radio Liberty, as well as the administrator of the telegram channel “Belarus of the Brain,” was detained on June 25, 2020 and convicted of “organizing mass riots.”
Trial outcome 14.12.2021:
15 years of imprisonment under enhanced security conditions
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Detained and convicted for participating in protests that took place in Brest in 2020.
Trial outcome 12.07.2021:
4.5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
He was detained and convicted for participating in a protest that took place from August 9 to 10, 2020 in Pinsk.
Trial outcome 30.04.2021:
6 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
He was detained on October 9, 2020 in connection with the case of setting the Tabakerka on fire, painting advertising structures, stopping a freight train, and slashed tires on a police officer’s car in the city of Bobruisk.
10.08.2022
From a letter dated 08/05/2022: I left the ShIZO (there were up to 9 people in the room). I was able to call my father for the first time in 2 years. The conversation lasted 4 minutes.
26.07.2022
From a letter dated 13.07.2022: from 14.07 he must go to the ShIZO for at least 20 days. Since then there have been no letters.
15.03.2022
From a letter dated 03/13/2022: the otovarka was reduced to 2 basic ones, before that they were also deprived of a long meeting.
12.12.2021
From a letter dated December 8: Detachment 8 was deprived of parcels for 4 months, 3 months did not receive letters even from relatives.
The letter from Vitaly came in response to a letter not from a relative from the letter.bel service.
13.10.2021
On 10/13/2021, a return letter was received with a note that Vitaly is not in this prison
23.08.2021
From a letter dated August 16: appeal on August 26, 2021 in the regional court of Mogilev.
24.06.2021
Date of birth: 07/03/1993.
14.06.2021
From a letter dated June 4: spent several days in a punishment cell. He is registered as an extremist.
14.05.2021
In a letter dated 05/01/2021, he reports that he spent several days in a punishment cell (room 3 * 4 m, very cold).
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The banker, a prominent public figure and presidential candidate, was detained along with his son while on his way to the Central Election Commission to submit the collected signatures.
Victor was convicted under articles 235 and 430 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Artyom worked as an optician at the Optik plant in the city of Lida. He graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum in Grodno and Lida Polytechnic College. He was detained in the case of a “radical” telegram chat.
On July 19, 2021, he was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment under enhanced security conditions, and on May 23, 2022, Artyom was convicted again for participating in protests and another 1.5 years of imprisonment was added to him.
Trial outcome 23.05.2022:
6.5 years of imprisonment under enhanced security conditions
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Detained on January 12, 2021. Charges indicted: Art. 342 of the Criminal Code – Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them.
Aleksandrov is a media manager. On January 15, 2021, Deputy Interior Minister Gennadiy Kazakevich said in an official statement that Aleksandrov and Zlobina had been detained "on suspicion of financing protest activities". According to him, Aleksandrov and Zlobina had been involved in the financing of persons taking part in the protests in Minsk since August 2020, including by paying their fines and reimbursing the costs of detention in the Isolation Centre for Offenders (TsIP) and Temporary Detention Facility (IVS). On September 1, 2022, Andrei and Irina Zlobina got married in SIZO-1.
Trial outcome 06.10.2022:
14 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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