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Valeria was detained on June 30, 2021 after a search of her house. The search was carried out by the KGB. She was placed in a temporary detention center, from there she was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1 on Volodarsky.
The case was considered behind closed doors, so the details are unknown.
10 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
The trial was held behind closed doors at the request of the prosecution in order to ensure the safety of the injured OMON officers. It is known that Viktor Prusov was detained on September 27, 2020 during one of the protest actions in Gomel, in the detention center he was informed that a criminal case had been opened for resisting police officers (Article 363 of the Criminal Code). Then the case was closed, but the prosecutor's office returned it for further investigation, during which the episode was reclassified under Art. 364 of the Criminal Code. Victor was again taken into custody on June 17, 2021.
On April 25, 2022, the second trial took place, where Viktor was sentenced to 1.5 years in a colony, in total with the first term was 3,5 years.
3,5 years in prison .
Director of a private printing house from Minsk. He was detained for "printing unregistered newspapers, stickers and protest leaflets using the company's equipment."
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4 years in prison .
Yan, as well as two other defendants in the case (Ilya Polonyankin and Petr Gretsky) were found guilty of "active group actions" at the protests. Namely, that they "joined hands (became in a clutch), actively urged other citizens to participate in an unauthorized mass event, threw an unidentified object towards the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs." Jan Dailida pleaded not guilty.
3.5 years restriction of liberty with referral to an open correctional facility ("chemistry")
4 years in prison
Nikolai Denisevich was immediately detained on October 23 for the events of October 18, 2020 . After 3 days, he was released on bail. But on April 21, the man was again detained and taken into custody.
4 years in a general regime colony .
The 35-year-old head of the department for the storage and accounting of documents of the enterprise was contacted by employees of the GUBOPiK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In their opinion, from last fall to February, a Minsk resident handed over to the administrators of telegram channels the personal identification information of more than 10 employees of the internal affairs bodies and high-ranking representatives of state power.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
6, 5 years of imprisonment in a colony with deprivation of the right to hold positions related to the performance of organizational and administrative duties for a period of 5 years.
Person involved in the case of "mass riots" in Brest.
Arrested on February 25, 2021 and taken into custody in SIZO-7 pending trial.
On June 11, Vyacheslav and 11 other defendants in the case began to judge.
4 years in prison in a penal colony
On August 10, during a protest, Andrei was severely beaten by riot police . He wanted to take a woman away from the riot police, after which he was seized by seven security officials and severely beaten. At the police department, the police called an ambulance, as Andrei was covered in blood. He ended up in the hospital: he had a head injury, hematomas all over his body, he had stitches. On the fact of beating Kondrasyuk, an application was submitted to the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case.
This case was never initiated, but at the end of 2020 Andrey himself was prosecuted for participating in mass riots. In December, he was detained for 72 hours, but then released on bail. Andrei's house was searched. On April 26, 2021, he was again detained and placed in a pre-trial detention center.
4 years of imprisonment in conditions of a reinforced regime .
Defendant in the case of mass riots, initiated by the events in Pinsk on the night after the elections on August 9. On May 31, the trial of him and 12 other defendants in the criminal case began.
4.5 years in prison .
According to the indictment, from September 20 to September 27, 2020, a man posted 13 messages in the Telegram chat of the Punishers group, in which he “negatively assessed” and “incited illegal criminal actions” against police officers, military, civil servants and their families. Thus, one of the messages contained the text: “We are [beaten], and we give them flowers.”
4 years in a penal colony (taking into account the unserved part of the sentence under another sentence)
A resident of the Baranovichi district, according to the prosecution, during a protest action on August 9, Zhdanko interfered with the lawful activities of servicemen of the Internal Troops. He took a piece of paving slab and threw it towards the military, who were dispersing the protest, and hit one of the soldiers in the shoulder. This bodily injury did not lead to short-term health problems.
3.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Aviation Academy student. Khomichkova’s case concerns the events of July 14, 2020, when the Central Election Commission refused to register candidates for the presidential elections. According to the indictment, Vladimir Khomichkov was detained for participating in an unauthorized mass event on the steps of the KFC restaurant at the intersection of Nemiga Street and Pobediteley Avenue. Then he became involved in a criminal case.
Vladimir's regime was tightened to imprisonment for a period of 1 year.
4 years restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional institution ("chemistry")
A 20-year-old citizen of the Russian Federation was detained on May 5 in Minsk, a search was conducted in a rented apartment and placed in a KGB pre-trial detention center. The guy was charged under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (organization of actions grossly violating public order), according to which he faces up to three years in prison. In November 2021, the article was changed to 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Transferred in June 2022 to enhanced regime for 3 years.
11 years in prison .
He was arrested on January 2, 2021. He was accused of participating in a telegram chat of a “radical direction”.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
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