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
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Convicted under Article 147 of the Criminal Code for allegedly tripping up a riot policeman. He was severely beaten and hospitalized. At the trial he spoke of inhuman torture he was subjected to while in detention.
Trial outcome:
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.
Journalist of the Belsat TV channel. Together with journalist Daria Chultsova, she became a defendant in a criminal case after a live broadcast from the scene of the brutal dispersal of demonstrators by the security forces on the "Square of Changes" in Minsk on November 15, 2020.
After seven days of administrative arrest, she was not released. Katerina was transferred to a detention center in Zhodzina.
On February 18, 2021, she was sentenced to 2 years in prison and sent to a general regime correctional colony.
On February 10, 2022, Katerina was transferred from correctional colony No. 4 to the Gomel pre-trial detention center in connection with “procedural actions”.
On April 7, 2022, it became known that the journalist was charged with a new charge of "treason against the state" ( Part 1, Article 356 of the Criminal Code ). On July 4, 2022, the case began to be considered behind closed doors by the judge of the Gomel Regional Court OlegKhoroshko . On July 13, he appointed Katerina 8 years and 3 months in a colony under a reinforced regime.
Trial outcome 13.07.2022:
8 years and 3 months of imprisonment in a penal 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.
Detained on August 30, 2020. Convicted under Art. 364 of the Criminal Code.
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.
Was сonvicted of participation in riots and armour storage at the closed court hearing.
Trial outcome:
7 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.
He was detained in September 2020 after publishing a new video. He planned to run for president, but the Central Election Commission refused to register him. Pavel became a trusted person of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. He was charged with "inciting social discord" due to a video that criticized government officials, including prosecutors, judges, and the police.
Trial outcome 05.02.2021:
4.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal 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 severely beaten. Anton was convicted of damaging the car of a policeman’s wife in Novaya Borovaya.
The wife and children managed to leave Belarus.
Trial outcome 03.02.2021:
6 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.
He was detained and severely beaten by GUBOPiK officers to obtain the “necessary testimony.” Nikita was convicted of intending to participate in a protest using a Molotov cocktail.
Trial outcome 03.02.2021:
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.
He was detained and convicted for blocking the road with a utility vehicle during a protest that took place from August 10 to 11, 2020 in Minsk.
04.05.2021
On 27.04 there was an appeal, the “threat of violence” was removed
Trial outcome 02.02.2021:
7 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.
He was detained on August 18, 2020 in a case known as the “Korelich case,” about alleged unrest in Korelichi and Novogrudok after the presidential elections. Vladimir was convicted of “organizing mass riots” and for insulting Lukashenko. In IK-17 he was systematically beaten and treated with prejudice, sending him to a punishment cell and a cell-type room.
On May 28, 2023, he was transferred to prison regime.
Trial outcome 29.12.2020:
7 years of imprisonment under strict 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.
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.
Oleg was detained and convicted of “hitting” a policeman during a street march in Vitebsk on September 13, 2020. Human rights activists report that the administration of correctional colony No. 9 in Gorki systematically put pressure on him, often placing him in a punishment cell. In September 2021, he was transferred to prison regime.
In August 2022, Oleg was re-convicted for “malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of a correctional institution” and was given another year of imprisonment.
On July 25, 2023, the political prisoner was again convicted of “disobedience to the administration’s demands” and sentenced to another year in prison.
Trial outcome 25.07.2023:
6.5 years of imprisonment under strict 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.
He was detained and convicted of hitting a police minibus during the dispersal of a Sunday protest that took place on August 30, 2020 in Minsk.
Trial outcome 27.11.2020:
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.
Sergei was detained in his apartment, severely beaten and convicted of “violence against a policeman” in Gomel. Sergei said that after the brutal detention, they continued to beat him at the Central District Department of Internal Affairs.
“They beat me, jumped on my head, insulted me and laughed when I cried,” Vereshchagin said. The lawyer added that he received at least 100 blows to different parts of his body.
In October 2021, he was transferred to prison regime.
Trial outcome 26.11.2020:
5 years imprisonment under strict 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.
He was detained on September 30, 2020 during a Sunday protest in Minsk and convicted of trying to stop another protester from being detained.
From September 28, 2021, he was transferred to prison regime for 3 years.
Trial outcome 27.11.2020:
5 years imprisonment under strict 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.
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