He was arrested on September 18, 2021. First, he was sentenced to 10 days of arrest in an administrative case, but then he was not released, but transferred to a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case.
Sergei was charged with organizing or actively participating in group actions that grossly violate public order.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
A resident of Vitebsk, was detained at the end of September 2021 in a criminal case on the creation of an extremist group (yard telegram chat).
4.5 years in prison in a penal colony
resident of the Kamenets region. According to the position of the state prosecution, Vitaliy Bondaruk committed crimes under these articles by posting comments and one video on social networks from August 2020 to March 2021.
5 years in prison .
A resident of Lida, a military pensioner. Sergei is suspected of preparing an attempt on Gaidukevich and other officials, as well as of illegally importing and storing weapons for allegedly preparing terrorist acts.
On September 29, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
14 years of imprisonment in a colony under a reinforced regime with deprivation of military rank
Former military man, signalman. Director of a company for the installation and repair of electric garage doors and barriers.He was detained on September 29, 2021. On April 8, 2022, the prosecutor's office sent a case to court against activists of the Busly Lyatsyats initiative. Some episodes of the criminal case are related to damage to the car of a judge of the Borisov district in March 2021 and a window in the apartment where “an employee of the Minsk prosecutor’s office lives with a young child” in April 2021.
Alexey has three children, one of them is a minor.
14 years in prison in a penal colony.
Detained on November 1, 2021 in St. Petersburg for the events in Belarus. In Russia, she worked as a waitress and lived in two countries. The last time the girl was at home about a year ago. According to the investigation, from September 2020 to November 2021, the suspect administered three Telegram channels. In May 2022, the Russian court refused to grant Belarusian Yana Pinchuk temporary asylum in Russia.
On August 9, 2022, she was extradited from the Russian Federation to the Republic of Belarus despite the ban on extradition by the UN Human Rights Committee.
12 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
An employee of the Mogilev branch of Beltelecom. Arrested at the workplace on October 28, 2021. He is preliminarily accused of distributing data to employees of law enforcement agencies.
6.5 years in prison.
At first he was on Akrestsina. Then he was arrested under the Criminal Code. Relatives note that Denis is a good, honest, fair and sympathetic guy. On pro-government channels, Denis is called the “chief visual editor” of the videos of the Supratsi movement. In the video, Salmanovich says that he was detained by police because he “was a member of destructive telegram channels”, “collaborated with Busly Lyats” and participated in protests in 2020.
The Court of Appeal reduced the term of serving the sentence from 10 to 9.5 years of imprisonment.
10 years in prison in a penal colony .
According to the materials of the case, Igor, using a laptop, sent several e-mails to the e-mail box of the official Internet portal of the President of the Republic of Belarus, where he expressed threats of violence against the President. He also sent an e-mail, available for viewing to third parties, including employees of the presidential administration of the Republic of Belarus, in the text of which he expressed insults against government officials in connection with the performance of their official duties - employees of the internal affairs bodies of the Republic of Belarus Ivan Kubrakov and Dmitry Balaba. The man also sent a similar message with threats of violence, destruction and damage to property to employees of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus. Igor also participated in protests during the post-election protests in Minsk in 2020.
According to the conclusion of the medical examination, during the period of committing the crimes, Karpitsky suffered from a mental illness, but he could realize the actual nature and social danger of his acts and manage them. He does not need compulsory security measures and treatment. Has a minor child.
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Resident of Ilyich village, Rogachevsky district. Detained under Articles 130 and 369 of the Criminal Code. On September 1, 2022, a verdict was passed: the political prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison in a general regime colony.
On April 26, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court began proceedings on a new criminal case initiated against a political prisoner. The political prisoner was transferred to pre-trial detention center-3 .
Based on the results of the second trial, Andrey was sentenced to 5 years in prison in a general regime colony. The trial took place behind closed doors on May 22, 2023.
5 years of imprisonment in a colony.
citizen of Ukraine. Arrested on May 17, 2021. On October 19, the state prosecution demanded punishment for Stanislav under two articles - Part 2 of Art. 293 and part 3 of Art. 205 of the Criminal Code ("Theft") - by drawing up: 5 years in a penal colony + a fine of 100 basic ones.
5 years in prison under enhanced regime.
He is a pensioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Graduated from Masherov VSU.
He was charged under Articles 342, 368 and 369 of the Criminal Code. He is in custody during the trial.
Yakov is interested in journalism, physics, religion, philosophy, cars.
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Vileika activist. Since August 9, 2021, he was held for “24 hours” in the Smolevich and Vileika isolation wards. On 10/20/2021 it became known that he was placed in a temporary detention center in Akrestsin and a criminal case was opened against him.
On July 18, 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
On February 15, 2024, the activist stopped communicating. Later it became known that Kudik is in a local temporary detention center, where he is serving 15 days of administrative arrest. But he was not released after the end of his sentence; he was detained as part of a criminal case.
4 years of imprisonment in a colony under strict security conditions
Resident of Novogrudok. Detained for the comment “It’s time for us to take up arms.”
In January 2022, Ruslan was sentenced to three years in prison in a general regime colony.
On August 2, 2022, another trial of Ruslan Kuzmich took place under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official) and Art. 370 of the Criminal Code (outrage of state symbols).
3.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Director of a construction company. Have a baby. He was detained on October 1, 2021, his house was searched. On April 8, 2022, the prosecutor's office sent the case against the activists of the "Busly Lyatsyats" initiative to the court. Some episodes of the criminal case are related to the damage to the car of the judge of the Borisovsky district in March 2021 and the window in the apartment where “an employee of the Minsk prosecutor’s office lives with a young child” in April 2021.
On June 9, 2023, it became known that Aleksey was placed in the PKT. According to human rights activists, on June 15, 2023, a trial was held in Bobruisk to change the regime and conditions of detention for Alexei, which decided to transfer Gameza to a prison regime for a period of three years in Mogilev.
At the end of June 2023, the political prisoner was transferred to a prison in Mogilev.
14.5 years in prison in a penal colony.
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