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Citizen of Estonia.
On January 16, 2024, the KGB made a decision to recognize the "Fund of Belarus Friend LTD" as an "extremist organization." The department's decision listed people who were allegedly related to the fund: Belarusians Oleg Stefanovich and Alexander Syritsa, as well as Estonian Allan Royo.
Trial outcome 08.10.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 12.07.2024: 13 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 12.07.2024: the sentence was upheld.
According to the court, the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, deliberately obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
In addition to her previous conviction under Article 328, she received 11 years in prison and a fine.
Trial outcome 25.10.2024: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.
It is also known that Maxim Sobolev, Gleb Klimovich, Yulia Sharanova were convicted, including on “narcotic” charges.
Maxim Sobolev under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code was sentenced to two years of imprisonment. But since Maxim was already convicted under the “narcotic” part 4 of Art. 328 of the Criminal Code, by partial addition of the main punishments and the full addition of an additional punishment, 12 years in prison were sentenced to serve in a correctional colony under a high security regime with a fine of 3,200 rubles.
12 years of imprisonment in a colony, served in a correctional colony under enhanced security conditions
Trial outcome 05.12.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Owner of the popular website s13.ru. Sergei was tried on October 25 for "dissemination of extremist materials" . The result of the trial was also 15 days of administrative arrest. That day it became known that the court, at the request of the Grodno city prosecutor, recognized the website s13.ru, which had existed for almost two decades, as "extremist materials" . After the first detention, Sergei was accused of "violating the procedure for organizing or holding mass events". The administrative case was heard on Wednesday by the Leninsky District Court, Judge Natalia Gorbach awarded another 15 days.
As a result, Sergei Chabotko was tried three times - for distributing extremist materials and "picketing" on the Internet.
Sergei was not released even after 45 days of administrative arrest. The man was probably taken into custody.
The KGB of Belarus has recognized the website s13.ru as an "extremist formation ", so Sergei's case is probably connected to this.
The owner of an agro-estate from the village of Chizhi. According to her friends, the woman has not been socially active since 2020. She was only involved in the agro-estate. But in 2020, the woman was in Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's initiative group and served 15 days of administrative arrest. For the past 2 years, she has actually been under the control of the local police officer.
Armen Arzumanyan is 44 years old. He is originally from Azerbaijan, but has lived in Belarus almost all his life and has Belarusian citizenship. Armen participated in the show "X-factor" first in 2018 in Ukraine, and then in 2021 in Belarus. But his main occupation is the gift business. For over 15 years, Armen has been running gift shops, the latest of which is Podari Minsk. In his free time, he saves homeless animals.
He is accused of “calling for sanctions” and “slandering Lukashenko.”
Trial outcome 20.12.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The details of the case are unknown. Alexander was probably detained in January 2024. According to information on his social networks, the man is married and graduated from BSUIR in 2014.
He probably worked in the Criminal Intelligence Department, which filed a lawsuit against Alexander for causing property damage. It should be noted that the Criminal Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs appeared in Belarus in April of this year - previously it was called the Department for Ensuring Operational Investigative Activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The process will be held behind closed doors.
Trial outcome 08.10.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.