Vitaly Leonidovich Merchants
Vitaly Leonidovich Merchants
Number of repressed: 1
Date of birth: 14 july 1973
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Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. Director of the Republican Unitary Production Enterprise No. 15. Lieutenant Colonel. Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Vitaly Leonidovich Kuptsov is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. Vitaly Kuptsov exploited the labor of prisoners, ignoring the safety of working conditions. He was responsible for the manufacture of uniforms for Russian military personnel. He imported garbage from Russia to Belarus in the form of plastic bottles of drinks and chemicals, which prisoners were then forced to sort and do loading and unloading work without using equipment in completely unsanitary conditions and without providing them with any means of protection or tools, without equipping a workplace. For refusing this work, he sent people to a punishment cell, and there is also a known case when a person was demonstratively placed in a cell-type room and a criminal case was opened under Article 411 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. Director of the Republican Unitary Production Enterprise No. 15. Lieutenant Colonel. Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Vitaly Leonidovich Kuptsov is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. Vitaly Kuptsov exploited the labor of prisoners, ignoring the safety of working conditions. He was responsible for the manufacture of uniforms for Russian military personnel. He imported garbage from Russia to Belarus in the form of plastic bottles of drinks and chemicals, which prisoners were then forced to sort and do loading and unloading work without using equipment in completely unsanitary conditions and without providing them with any means of protection or tools, without equipping a workplace. For refusing this work, he sent people to a punishment cell, and there is also a known case when a person was demonstratively placed in a cell-type room and a criminal case was opened under Article 411 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

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Alexander Grigorievich Velesnitsky
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In custody: 691 day
folder Categories of cases: Zeltser's case
Hometown: Buhlichi
Date of birth: 14.03.1978
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: IK-15IK β„–15, 212013, Mogilev, p/o Veyno, Slavgorodskoye shosse 183
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A former officer who condemned violence by security forces after the 2020 elections.

Alexander was detained in Stolin on September 29, 2021 in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.

On August 22, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.

Trial outcome 26.09.2022
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.12.2022
the sentence was upheld.
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