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.
List of repressed
He was detained on September 30, 2021 in a criminal case initiated for comments “it’s time to take out the garbage” in a public telegram chat after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in the Minsk apartment.
At the end of March 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years in prison.
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He was detained on September 30, 2021 in Minsk by KGB officers. He was convicted for commenting on the case of Andrei Zeltser: “They overwhelmed the Gestapo, civilian officers do not break into doors, he came with a sword, and died by the sword.”
Released at the end of winter 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
was detained on September 30, 2021 in Minsk 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 January 31, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
2 years in prison.
- Associations
- Students
Daniil, a history student at the Belarusian State University, was detained on September 29, 2021, in Minsk in a criminal case opened for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
Almost a year and a half later, he was found guilty of “inciting hatred or discord” and “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order.” The basis for the second charge was that during the protests, he bandaged the injured leg of a guy who had an injured ankle.
He was released in April 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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- Journalists
On October 1, 2021, a search was carried out in Mozheiko’s house, a little later he was detained and placed in a detention center on Akrestsina Street as part of an initiated criminal case for an article in a publication about Andrey Zeltser. The Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation and the Union of Journalists of Russia called for the immediate release of the journalist
Mozheiko is the author of an article about Andrei Zeltser, a Minsk resident killed in a shootout with KGB officers. According to the prosecution, Mozheiko “acting on the basis of political and ideological hostility, committed a number of crimes between June 23, 2020 and October 2021.” He also “made and posted on the Internet negative, obscene and unacceptable” statements regarding Lukashenka.
The journalist pleaded not guilty in court.
01/23/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Convicted on 07/06/2021 by the Berestovitsky District Court for commenting on an official. He has been serving his sentence since September 10, 2021.
In October 2022, the punishment regime was replaced with a stricter one, he was transferred to a colony.
On November 16, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
| 19.10.2022 | On October 4, 22, he was transferred to SIZO-2, Vitebsk |
| 26.09.2021 | 09/14/2021 registered as prone to extremism |
1.5 years of restriction of freedom.
A resident of Minsk, who was detained on August 22, 2021 as part of a criminal case on group actions grossly violating public order.
3 years of restriction of liberty without referral to an open correctional facility
As Shchitnikov testified during the trial, he unintentionally struck a traffic police car after his wife, who was sitting next to him, screamed: she saw a man being hit near the road. Taken by surprise, the Nissan driver struck the parked traffic police car. Shchitnikov was subsequently detained and, according to him, beaten at the Moscow District Police Department. He was taken to the Okrestina detention center with a traumatic brain injury.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2025.
Vadim was arrested in June 2021 on charges of "active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order." The criminal case was opened against him for participating in protests that took place on October 25 and November 1, 2020, in Minsk. In September 2021, he was sentenced to restriction of freedom without direction and released from custody in the courtroom.
20-year-old mechanic Artem Sakovich was accused of participating in actions that grossly violate public order, preparing to participate in mass riots on August 10-12, 2020, and preparing to illegally manufacture and carry items whose destructive effect is based on the use of flammable substances. As part of the criminal case, Artem was detained only on June 22, 2021, when he came to the police department as a witness in another “non-political” criminal case. Before that, as it turned out, he was wanted, although he was not hiding: he lived at home, went to work.
He was released in early May 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Under Article 342 of the Criminal Code, Kirill Palchevsky was found guilty of participating in actions that grossly violated public order on September 13, 2020, from 1:59 p.m. to 7:20 p.m. According to the indictment, he acted out of selfish motives, as well as by prior conspiracy with a group of people: he shouted slogans, loudly clapped his hands, moved in a chain, and violated the right of decent citizens to a peaceful life. The text of the indictment listed all the streets, stores, and organizations whose peace the man violated. Under Article 415 of the Criminal Code, Kirill Palchevsky was found guilty of violating the rules for serving his previous sentence - two years of "house arrest", during which he committed numerous violations.
Kirill has a mental illness.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
3 years and 1 month of imprisonment in a penal colony
He was detained on August 4, 2021 as a suspect in a criminal case on participation in mass riots.
A 40-year-old former OMON officer. He decided to quit the service back in 2010, after the events during the elections. He managed to officially quit the service only in 2012.
He was detained on August 17 at home in the agro-town of Khotyezhino. After the detention, GUBOPiK officers recorded a "repentant" video with the former OMON officer, where he admits that on August 9-11 last year "he was in a hitch with the aim of counteracting law enforcement officers." At the same time, propaganda Telegram channels presented information about his detention as persecution of those who resigned from the civil service in protest in 2020: "He burned his service ID and went to mass riots." Although in fact, Klimovich resigned from the OMON 8 years earlier.
On September 2, 2024, the Minsk District Court will hold a hearing on "Replacing the restriction of freedom without sending to an open-type correctional facility"
accountant of the information agency "BelaPAN". She was detained on July 18 after a search and interrogation at the Investigative Committee. Released 08/28/2021
- Associations
- Journalists
director of the news agency BelaPAN. On the morning of August 18, 2021, they came to her with a search. Then they took me to the agency's office for a search, and then for interrogation. Searches also took place at the homes of other BelaPAN journalists.
