Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
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Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
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Rostislav, a former Gorodeya football player, was detained three times — from August 2020 to spring 2021 — and sent to serve administrative arrests. The last time, on May 17, 2021, he was sentenced to 15 days for disobeying the police. However, after serving the sentence, he was not released and was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on charges of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order." A criminal case was opened against Rostislav after a march in Kurapaty, which took place on November 1, 2020. In September 2021, he was sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction and released from custody in the courtroom.
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Alexander, an activist and volunteer for the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was detained in May 2021 and convicted for participating in a mass protest against election fraud and violence in the country that took place on September 16, 2020, in Minsk.
Before he began serving his sentence, he managed to leave Belarus.
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- Administrators of TG-channels
Dmitry was detained in the fall of 2020 and subsequently convicted on charges of "organizing group actions that grossly violate public order." According to the prosecution, from August 31 to October 30, 2020, he, as the administrator of the Telegram chat "Minsk. Road Blocking. Chat", published instructions on blocking traffic, searched for participants and coordinated their actions.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2022, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Maria was arrested on September 9, 2020 and convicted for writing the words “We will not forget” at the site of the death of Alexander Taraikovsky, who was shot dead near the Pushkinskaya metro station during a protest that took place on August 10, 2020 in Minsk.
Ilya was arrested in March 2021 and convicted for participating in protests that took place on August 9-10, 2020 in Minsk. He comes from a large family and was the sole breadwinner at the time of his arrest. The court sentenced him to restricted freedom in an open-type correctional facility.
In February 2022, a court hearing was held, following which the punishment regime was tightened, and Ilya was sent to a penal colony.
He was released in the summer of 2023, having served his entire sentence.
| 27.05.2021 | Testimony in court: Nothing. Well, Iβm showing that Iβm only for, and not suprats our arrangements. Kali would I have intended to have a chymtsΡ ΡzelnΡchats, I would have a creature. About the hitch in which he stood: hell of people, like a flock of pobach, admiring the peragar, there the pit became a shameful flock of them. |
Alexander, TUT.BY's Deputy Director for Technical Issues, was detained on May 18, 2021, as part of a criminal case brought against TUT.BY on charges of large-scale tax evasion.
In March 2022, he was released from pretrial detention on bail. The charges against him were not dropped.
In April 2023, it became known that the criminal prosecution against Alexander and eight other defendants in the “TUT.BY case” was terminated based on the positive consideration of the petitions for release from criminal liability previously submitted by them.
Angela, chief accountant of TUT.BY, was detained on May 18, 2021, as part of a criminal case against TUT.BY, initiated on charges of tax evasion on an especially large scale.
In March 2022, she was released from pretrial detention on her own recognizance. The charges against her were not dropped.
In April 2023, it became known that the criminal prosecution against Angela and eight other defendants in the “TUT.BY case” was terminated based on the positive consideration of the petitions for release from criminal liability previously filed by them.
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- Entrepreneurs
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- Entrepreneurs
Sergey, CEO of Hoster.by, was arrested on May 18, 2021, as part of a criminal case brought against TUT.BY on charges of tax evasion on an especially large scale.
In September 2021, he was released from pretrial detention on bail. The charges against him were not dropped.
In April 2023, it became known that the criminal prosecution against Sergei and eight other defendants in the “TUT.BY case” was terminated based on the positive consideration of the petitions for release from criminal liability previously filed by them.
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Roman is a Belarusian journalist and former editor of the Telegram channels NEXTA and Belarus of the Brain, which have been declared extremist by the authorities. In 2020, he was charged with several criminal offenses, including “organizing mass riots” and “inciting hatred.” In May 2021, he was detained after Belarusian authorities forcibly landed a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius in Minsk.
In June of that year, he was transferred to house arrest.
The trial in the "NEXTA case" began in 2023. Roman was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony, but after the verdict was announced, he was not taken into custody and remained under house arrest.
He was released in May 2023 as part of a pardon.
Andrey, a TUT.BY manager and an employee of the Publisher Box company, was detained on May 18, 2021, as part of a criminal case brought against TUT.BY on charges of tax evasion on an especially large scale.
In March 2022, he was released from pretrial detention on bail. The charges were not dropped.
In April 2023, it became known that the criminal prosecution against Andrei and eight other defendants in the “TUT.BY case” was terminated based on the positive consideration of the petitions for release from criminal liability previously submitted by them.
Irina, deputy director of TUT.BY and one of the first employees of Tut By Media LLC, was detained on May 18, 2021, as part of a criminal case brought against TUT.BY on charges of tax evasion on an especially large scale .
In March 2022, she was released from pretrial detention on her own recognizance. The charges were not dropped.
In April 2023, it became known that the criminal prosecution against Irina and eight other defendants in the “TUT.BY case” was terminated based on the positive consideration of the petitions for release from criminal liability previously filed by them.
Maria, deputy chief accountant of TUT.BY, was detained on May 18, 2021, as part of a criminal case against TUT.BY, initiated on charges of tax evasion on an especially large scale.
In March 2022, she was released from pretrial detention on her own recognizance. The charges were not dropped.
In April 2023, it became known that the criminal prosecution against Maria and eight other defendants in the “TUT.BY case” was terminated based on the positive consideration of the petitions for release from criminal liability previously filed by them.
Alla, the chief engineer of TUT.BY, was detained on May 18, 2021, as part of a criminal case against TUT.BY, initiated on charges of tax evasion on an especially large scale.
In May 2022, she was released from pretrial detention on bail. The charges were not dropped.
In April 2023, it became known that the criminal prosecution against Alla and eight other defendants in the “TUT.BY case” was terminated based on the positive consideration of the petitions for release from criminal liability previously filed by them.
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- Lawyers
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- Lawyers
Lyudmila is the former CEO of TUT.BY. She worked at TUT.BY since 2008, first as a legal adviser and later as a director. In 2017, she became the head of Tut By Media.
In May 2021, she was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened on charges of tax evasion.
In October 2022, the KGB added Lyudmila to its list of persons "involved in terrorist activity." She was later also charged with "inciting hatred" and "calls for actions against national security."
The trial was held behind closed doors and lasted over two months, with 37 hearings in total. In March 2023, Lyudmila was sentenced to a lengthy prison term and a large fine.
On September 16, 2026, she was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
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- Parents of minors
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- Parents of minors
Olga, a blogger and designer, has been repeatedly persecuted and detained under administrative articles following the events that followed the 2020 elections in Minsk. In May 2021, her home was searched, after which Olga was detained as part of a criminal case opened on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." Before that, she was already a suspect under two articles of the Criminal Code - "insulting a judge" and "slandering an election commission employee."
In December of the same year, Olga was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
She was released in June 2022, having served her full sentence as determined by the court.