Egor Volkov is 55 years old. He is a Minsk resident, studied at school No. 50. Then he graduated from the Minsk Radiotechnical Institute (now the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics).
Since the 1990s, Volkov has been involved in business. It is known that his area is cargo transportation, including liquid cargo. The man's business is quite large, his company's fleet of vehicles includes up to a hundred trucks.
Egor was tried for one donation and a photo from the protests.
On July 23, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 03.05.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 23.07.2024
unknown.
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Detained for comments on social networks left in 2022 on the Telegram channel "Real Belarus".
Trial outcome 16.01.2025
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 250 basic values fine.
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3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime 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.
Citizen of Ukraine. Igor Zhivalun comes from the Sumy region of Ukraine. After the start of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into his homeland and the occupation of his hometown Nedrigailov, he actively began to expand information through his Facebook page that helped search for Ukrainian civilians and soldiers missing in the war, as well as all kinds of anti-war information, information about the participation of Belarusians in the defense of Ukraine from Russian aggressors.
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.
Yuri was first convicted in January 2024 for participating in protests, the exact sentence is unknown. On March 19, 2024, an appeal was heard, and the sentence came into force.
He was convicted for the second time in early December 2024, apparently for a comment regarding Lukashenko A.G.
Trial outcome 11.01.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 19.03.2024
unknown.
Trial outcome 03.12.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime 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.
Stanislav was detained upon returning to Belarus from Poland, where he had moved more than a year earlier. He came home in late 2023 to spend the holidays with his family, but was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened after protests on August 10, 2020, in Brest against the falsification of the presidential election. Stanislav was convicted of participating in “mass riots.”
In a pro-government confessional video published, he says that he "participated in protests and went out onto the roadway." The recording shows that Stanislav's face is scratched, although no such damage was visible when he was detained.
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.
On October 27, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force
Trial outcome 25.08.2023
2 years 2 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.10.2023
unknown.
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.
On August 23, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict entered into force
Trial outcome 16.06.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 23.08.2023
unknown.
Trial outcome 11.09.2024
unknown.
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.
On October 13, 2022, Maxim was convicted under an administrative article for distributinginformation products containing calls for extremist activity.
In June 2023, he was convicted under a criminal article for assisting extremist activity.
Maxim had encephalitis while still in the pretrial detention center. There were severe complications. He was even paralyzed for some time. He walks with difficulty.
Trial outcome 13.06.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime 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.
On March 11, 2022, Evgeny was detained for insulting comments.
During the search, hashish was found in his possession. Evgeny said that he bought it for himself and his friend-colleague Yuri, with whom he had previously used it repeatedly.
The man was detained and placed in custody, charging him with articles for insulting four policemen, a judge and drug trafficking.
On September 27, 2022, an appeal hearing was held.
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.
The man was charged with the fact that on his page in ok.ru he posted an image of Lukashenko found on the Internet with inscriptions containing the words: «insidious», «greedy», «cockroach», «deceiver» and others.
According to the indictment, Andrei Lomsha on the Odnoklassniki social network marked several publications with "offensive" statements with the "class" mark.
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