Anatoly Nikolaevich Strelchenko
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Anatoly Nikolaevich Strelchenko
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Anatoly Nikolaevich Strelchenko is an employee of the judicial authorities involved in politically motivated repressions, in which thousands of peaceful demonstrators, several hundred journalists, human rights defenders and activists were detained and subjected to violence.
He handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where he imposed penalties in the form of a fine totaling at least 405 rubles and administrative arrest for a total period of at least 31 days.
Strelchenko found Ruslan Parfenov guilty of crimes under Part 1 of Article 13 and Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, and sentenced him to five years in prison in a high-security colony. Ruslan was accused of making metal “hedgehogs” to stop the traffic of law enforcement agencies.
He pronounced a verdict in the case of Lyubov Arbuzova, who was accused of committing a crime under Article 391 of the Criminal Code “Insulting a judge or people’s assessor” for a comment on social networks. Strelchenko sentenced the woman to one and a half years of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility. He also decided to confiscate the accused’s mobile phone as a means of committing a crime.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Anatoly Nikolaevich Strelchenko is an employee of the judicial authorities involved in politically motivated repressions, in which thousands of peaceful demonstrators, several hundred journalists, human rights defenders and activists were detained and subjected to violence.
He handed down guilty verdicts in politically motivated cases, where he imposed penalties in the form of a fine totaling at least 405 rubles and administrative arrest for a total period of at least 31 days.
Strelchenko found Ruslan Parfenov guilty of crimes under Part 1 of Article 13 and Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, and sentenced him to five years in prison in a high-security colony. Ruslan was accused of making metal “hedgehogs” to stop the traffic of law enforcement agencies.
He pronounced a verdict in the case of Lyubov Arbuzova, who was accused of committing a crime under Article 391 of the Criminal Code “Insulting a judge or people’s assessor” for a comment on social networks. Strelchenko sentenced the woman to one and a half years of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility. He also decided to confiscate the accused’s mobile phone as a means of committing a crime.
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He is accused of preparing terrorist attacks in Chizhovka and at a military unit in Pechi on the eve of Freedom Day in 2021.
The actions that security officials attribute to him became the basis for the inclusion of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Pavel Latushko, Anton Motolko, and participants in the initiative of former security officials. added to the list of terrorists and the initiation of criminal proceedings against them for preparing an act of terrorism.
Vyacheslav was charged with "malicious disobedience to the demands of the prison administration" under Article 411 of the Criminal Code. His trial took place on February 10, 2023. He was sentenced to one year in prison.
Vyacheslav was tried on August 23, 2023, under Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code in Gorki and was sentenced to an additional two years of imprisonment. Combined with the unserved portion of his sentence at the time of the trial (20 years and 5 months) and the new sentence (2 years), he still has 22 years and 5 months to serve from the time of the third trial.
On August 7, 2024, Mozyr judge Anatoly Strelchenko will conduct another trial under Article 411 against Vyacheslav.
On August 20, Judge Anatoly Strelchenko announced the sentence : two years' imprisonment. It is known that, as a result of applying another article of the Criminal Code, the political prisoner's additional sentence was one year and 10 months.
As of the summer of 2026, Vyacheslav is in prison no. 1.
The total sentence as of July 2026, taking into account time already served and new sentences, is 26 years and 10 months.
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Vladimir is a blogger and author of the YouTube channel MozgON. He started by discussing economic and social news, later moving on to political topics, covering various actions, including pickets of Sergei Tikhanovsky.
In June 2020, he was detained to serve an administrative arrest, but was later accused of preparing "mass riots" and convicted in the "Tikhanovsky case." According to human rights activists, the defendants in the case are required to pay compensation in the amount of 29 million rubles.
In 2022, Vladimir was transferred to prison regime. In 2023, he was tried twice for "malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of the correctional institution." In the fall of 2023, a third court hearing was held on a new case for "malicious disobedience."
As can be seen from Anastasia's social networks, she was a professional photographer, doing custom photo shoots. Her last online activity was in January 2025.
The trial will take place at the end of February 2025.
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A 62-year-old employee of the computer science and communications laboratory at the Mozyr Oil Refinery.
Igor Shukanov was brutally and demonstratively detained on August 1, 2024. The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GUBOP) arrived from Minsk to pick him up. He was detained right at his workplace. He was then driven in a UAZ Patriot vehicle outside the plant's gate. Not far from the bus stop, in a parking lot near the plant's main entrance, where people were present at the time, the GUBOP officers staged a demonstrative beating of Shukanov: they dragged him out of the UAZ, threw him face down on the pavement, kneed him in the head, and handcuffed him.
Remarkably, that morning Igor was tried on an administrative charge for spreading "extremism." He was fined and released, only to be arrested a few hours later.
According to calculations, he was supposed to be released in early 2026 .
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Gleb is the director of the Ikvadrat web design studio in Grodno. On August 10, 2020, he was brutally beaten by security forces and taken to the emergency room with injuries. In August 2021, following a search of his home and office, Gleb was detained. On September 8, it was announced that he had been charged with "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in such actions."
In December of that year, Gleb was convicted of participating in a post-election protest in August 2020 in Grodno and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility. While in the correctional facility, Gleb was also tried under the administrative law for "disseminating extremist materials."
In May 2023, a court hearing was held to discuss the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in June 2023, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.
Andrei was convicted for a comment he left on VKontakte about a government official, as well as for possessing a small amount of gunpowder left over from his hunting days. He was sentenced to restricted freedom with a referral.
It is known that on October 30, 2022, the political prisoner was detained in a penal colony and tried under an administrative charge for "disseminating extremist materials."
In June 2023, the court toughened the punishment, and Andrei was transferred to a penal colony for one year.
According to human rights activists, Andrei was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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Ruslan, a member of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's initiative group from Mozyr, was arrested on August 19, 2020, one day after completing a 10-day administrative arrest for participating in an unsanctioned mass event. During his initial arrest, BT and ONT television channels aired reports claiming he was making "hedgehogs" to block police vehicles, but the video showed a different person.
Ruslan was later convicted in the case of “mass riots.”
According to human rights activists, he will be released in May 2025, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.