Convicted for commenting on a telegram channel under a photo of a police officer of the Central District Department of Internal Affairs in Brest.
| 05.09.2021 | 10.8.2021. Registered as a salon for extremist and other destructive activities. |
3 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
resident of Mogilev, convicted of insulting Lukashenko.
On May 24, 2022, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Pavel Churkin was detained again in the spring of 2024 on suspicion of collaboration with the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. This was discussed in the program “Everything is on point” on the state TV channel “BELARUS 4 Mogilev”.
During the arrest, Churkin said on camera that he was filming the deployment of Iskanders in order to later transfer the footage to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This task was given to the Belarusian by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
To confirm that Churkin was recruited by the Ukrainian intelligence services, the authors of the story show a video where a man on camera reads something similar to the text of an oath to Ukraine.
The host of the program says that Churkin is now suspected of treason against the state (Article 356 of the Criminal Code).
1 year in prison.
In September, Ilya Gapon left a message in the chat , of which he was a member, that he considers the use of force to be the most acceptable scenario for confronting law enforcement officers.
3 years of imprisonment with serving under the general regime.
According to the accusations , on April 2, 2021, intending to publicly insult the deputy prosecutor, he sent an email to the prosecutor's office of the Vitebsk region. It began with the word "Korenko" and ends - "Immortal" and had a negative form of evaluation of an official, represented a "swearing segment". On that day, intending to publicly insult the first deputy chairman of the district executive committee, he sent a letter to the district executive committee in which he insulted the official. It was aimed at creating a negative image of a representative of power. The letter began with the word "Lyutynsky" and ended with the words "everything is possible", as well as another letter.
He also violated the terms of the permit to carry weapons and illegally stored explosives: smoke powder, which is suitable for the formation of an explosion.
3 years in a strict regime colony
Arrested on suspicion of planning to set fire to logging equipment. Natalia told the court that she found herself in a difficult situation: in August 2020, an acquaintance was detained, she lost her father, and experienced difficulties at work. She also said that she really was a member and wrote comments in the OGSB chat and confirmed that she really had the intent to destroy logging equipment in the forestry. Natalya was detained on the evening of June 8, 2021, right at the forestry enterprise, where she arrived on assignment along with her alleged accomplice Gordeev, who in fact carried out the task of state security agencies .
In addition to imprisonment, Natalya was fined 400 basic units (12,800 rubles).
14 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
He was detained on August 4, 2021 as a suspect in a criminal case on participation in mass riots.
4 years in prison under enhanced regime.
Artyom was detained on August 4 by the GUBOP officers. During the arrest, the Gubopovtsy greeted Artyom with the phrase "Welcome to the Gestapo!", after which they beat him, put him in the "swallow" and threatened with rape so that he would tell the password to his phone. The court of the Zavodskoy district of Minsk appointed him a 15-day arrest, after which he was never released. He was charged under Art. 342.1 for participating in protests and transferred to SIZO-1.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Arrested in March 2021 for posting stickers in the city . According to the prosecution, from October 1 to March 22, he was engaged in activities aimed at "systematic damage to property." Using aerosol paint, he applied the inscriptions on the property of UE Vitebskvodokanal: "Long live Belarus!", "3%", "Red partisan", "Go away", etc. Sergei faces up to 15 years in prison. Sergei left two minor children in the wild.
9 years and 15 days in prison in a penal colony
The man is being tried for a November 15 message in the Telegram chat "Banda Luka" in which he allegedly calls for mass riots. At the trial, Krylov does not admit guilt. The man is being held in custody and faces a sentence of five to fifteen years in prison.
He served his sentence in IK-22, and was transferred to another correctional facility in December 2023. The location is being specified.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to open institutions.
Former director of the BelaPAN news agency. He was detained on July 18 after a search and interrogation at the Investigative Committee. On August 28, 2021, he was transferred to SIZO-1.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony.
director of the news agency BelaPAN. On the morning of August 18, 2021, they came to her with a search. Then they took me to the agency's office for a search, and then for interrogation. Searches also took place at the homes of other BelaPAN journalists.
4 years in prison
Dmitry Belikov was found guilty that on September 20, 2020, he joined the rally as part of a group of 800 people, took an active part in it, disrupted the operation of transport, and he also had a white-red-white flag with him.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Builder-finisher.
On April 8, 2022, the prosecutor's office sent the case against activists of the "Busly Lyatsyats" initiative to court. Some episodes of the criminal case are related to damage to the car of a Borisov district judge in March 2021 and to a window in an apartment where "an employee of the Minsk prosecutor's office lives with a young child" in April 2021.
There are three children in the family.
In September 2024, it became known that Andrei would be tried for “malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional institution executing a sentence of imprisonment” (Article 411, Part 2).
15 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
A resident of the Minsk region. The reason for the arrest was a visit to the entrance where a police officer lives. He served in the 103rd unit in Vitebsk, collaborated with Baypol.
10/17/2023 transferred to prison regime.
On September 27, his trial will begin in the Leninsky District Court of Mogilev under Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code.
| 28.12.2021 | On December 10, 2021, he was sent to colony IK-3, Vitebsk region. Info from the administration of Sizo-1 |
6 years in prison
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