Convicted of failing to report a crime.
Dmitry was found guilty of failing to report a well-known person who committed a particularly serious crime and the location of such a person in the case of blowing up a police car at the Central police Department building in Minsk.
3 months of arrest.
On January 30, 2023, 18 year old Maxim was sentenced to 1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime. He was found guilty under part 1 of Article 130, Article 369 and Article 391 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
At the time of detention on May 10, 2022, the guy was a juvenile.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Pavel is a resident of Gomel, studied at the Francysk Skaryna Gomel State University. An active player in the quiz.
With the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the man on his vk.com page actively spoke out against the war. Later, his page was blocked by the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.
Pavel's anti-war statements in social networks could be the reason for accusing him of inciting other social hostility.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in September 2023.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Ilya and his friend Vladislav Mazurov were accused of the fact that on October 27, 2022, the guys, being drunk, tore down the national flag of the Republic of Belarus, hanging on the club building in the a-t. Temny Les. At the same time, they broke the flagpole. Then, returning from the a-t. Temny Les at the place of residence, the guys arranged a photo session with a flag.
According to human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
3 months of arrest.
Vladislav and his friend Ilya Kovalev were accused of the fact that on October 27, 2022, the guys, being drunk, tore down the national flag of the Republic of Belarus, hanging on the club building in the a-t. Temny Les. At the same time, they broke the flagpole. Then, returning from the a-t. Temny Les at the place of residence, the guys arranged a photo session with a flag.
According to human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
3 months of arrest.
It is known that during a search at home in connection with the case, a white-red-white flag was taken from Vlasyuk, which was later included in the materials of the criminal case.
According to the prosecution, an online comment written on April 22, 2022 under a video of Alexander Grigorievich’s speech was considered a public insult to Lukashenko. This message contained obscene language.
In October 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
In a video published by security forces , Stepan reports that he was detained for distributing extremist materials and insulting police officers on the Internet.
01/24/2024 released after expiration of sentence.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
On May 2, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. In the fall of 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
However, as a citizen of the Russian Federation, after his release he was most likely deported.
1 year imprisonment in a colony
According to the video of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a criminal case was opened against Mikhail for insulting Lukashenko. In total, representatives of law enforcement agencies counted 860 comments of Mikhail against the current government of the Republic of Belarus.
Before the trial, Mikhail was under house arrest, on the day of the verdict he was taken into custody in the courtroom
According to human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Anatoly came to Belarus to be examined: he was diagnosed with cancer.
At first, the man was convicted under administrative article 19.11 (distribution of extremist materials) before his arrest. But even before the end of this arrest, he was charged under article 368 of the Criminal Code for insulting Lukashenko, and put in prison.
10.23.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained in the «Zeltser's case*» 01.10.2021.
*Zeltser's case - detentions and arrests of people for comments and likes on social networks in support of IT manager Andrey Zeltser. Zeltser defended himself with a gun and was killed by a officer of the State Security Committee during detention. A officer of the State Security Committee was also killed.
In the summer of 2023 he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Evgeny Vasilevsky was detained almost a year ago in Moscow, from March 25 to April 7, 2022, he was sentenced to 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 essence of the accusation is still unknown. Probably, we are talking about the transfer of personal data of security forces to protest chats.
In the fall of 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Dmitry was detained on September 21, 2022 by GUBOPiK officers. The teacher was forced to read his own poems on camera and make excuses - he allegedly went to protests in August 2020, wrote messages on Facebook and VKontakte. Screenshots from his social networks criticizing the actions of the authorities also appeared on pro-government channels.
Children's poet and prose writer, winner of the Writers for Children competition (2017). He is a member of the International Union of Writers "New Contemporary", the Belarusian Literary Union of Writers "Polotsk Branch". Teacher at the Smart School private school.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years in prison
On March 3, 2023, the regional court considered the appeal against the verdict. At the moment, the details of the case, as well as the results of the trials, are unknown.
In the fall of 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
It is known that Yakov was sentenced to imprisonment. He has already served his sentence and currently lives in Poland.
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
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