Vladimir Aleksandrovich Davydov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Davydov
Number of repressed: 48
Date of birth: 11 april 1967
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Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus. Involved in issuing politically motivated court decisions, at least 9 politically motivated decisions. Together with Grintsevich and Kovalchuk, he participated in the consideration of the appeal in the case of anarchist blogger Nikolai Dziadok, where he neglected information about cases of torture, did not pay attention to the obvious falsification of evidence in this case and left the verdict unchanged. His actions can also be characterized as failure to observe neutrality when considering appeals of other political verdicts. Judge Davydov mainly made decisions on appeals of sentences handed down to political activists and journalists. In most cases, he left the verdicts unchanged. One of such decisions was the consideration of the case of Belsat journalist Pavel Vinagradov. Thus, his actions testify to serious violations of human rights and the suppression of civil society and the democratic opposition in Belarus.

Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus. Involved in issuing politically motivated court decisions, at least 9 politically motivated decisions. Together with Grintsevich and Kovalchuk, he participated in the consideration of the appeal in the case of anarchist blogger Nikolai Dziadok, where he neglected information about cases of torture, did not pay attention to the obvious falsification of evidence in this case and left the verdict unchanged. His actions can also be characterized as failure to observe neutrality when considering appeals of other political verdicts. Judge Davydov mainly made decisions on appeals of sentences handed down to political activists and journalists. In most cases, he left the verdicts unchanged. One of such decisions was the consideration of the case of Belsat journalist Pavel Vinagradov. Thus, his actions testify to serious violations of human rights and the suppression of civil society and the democratic opposition in Belarus.

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Kirill Vladimirovich Wevel
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In custody: 688 days
Hometown: Borisov
Date of birth: 23.01.1984
Address for letters: IK -22, p.o.b 20, Brest region, Ivatsevichi, st. Domanovo, 225295
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Kirill was detained in January 2024. He was initially arrested for several days for “petty hooliganism,” but was then not released and a criminal case was opened.

Kirill worked at various factories and enterprises that sell industrial equipment. In 2015, he also founded a small company, Grifkom-Vector, which sold components for conveyors (closed in 2021). Kirill writes music and scripts for films. He is also listed in the register of national copyright holders.

The trial of the political prisoner will begin in the Minsk City Court on February 14, 2025. Vevel is currently charged with participation in a certain "extremist formation" (Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code), as well as "inciting hatred" (Part 1 of Article (Article 130 of the Criminal Code)

Trial outcome 26.09.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 22.11.2024
unknown.
Trial outcome 20.02.2025
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security 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.
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In custody: 681 day
folder Categories of cases: Raid January 23-24, 2024
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 05.02.1978
Address for letters: No information
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Detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.

Trial outcome 30.10.2024
unknown.
Appeal 14.01.2025
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.
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In custody: ~1008 days
folder Categories of cases: Machulishchi
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 21.10.1980
Address for letters: IK β„–17, 213004, Shklov, ul. 1-ya Zavodskaya, 8
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was detained as part of a criminal case that the KGB opened on the fact of an “attempt to commit an act of terrorism” in Machulishchi.

The main defendant in the case and, as the official bodies and propagandists claimed, the perpetrator of the sabotage, Nikolai Shvets, was released in June in a prisoner exchange with Ukraine. But despite this, the case is still on trial and his accomplices in Belarus face long prison terms. Shvets himself is also being tried in absentia.

Trial outcome 03.10.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 27.01.2025
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.
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In custody: ~575 days
Hometown: Dzyatlava
Date of birth: 16.11.1990
Address for letters: No information
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Presumably , this is the former prosecutor of the Voronovo district. Prosecutor Savko is 33 years old. He is originally from the city of Dyatlovo in the Grodno region. After that, he went to study in Grodno and work in the prosecutor's office. In 2022-2023, the man held the position of prosecutor of the Voronovo district, then worked as a senior prosecutor in one of the departments of the prosecutor's office of the Grodno region. "Nasha Niva" did not find evidence that Savko was involved in repressions in his position. Vitaly actively gave interviews to state media. The last one was published in July 2023, although before that they were published regularly, once every one or two months. The man's social networks have been deleted.

Trial outcome 31.07.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 11.10.2024
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.
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In custody: ~493 days
folder Categories of cases: Donate
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 10.12.1984
Address for letters: IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Alina was convicted in July 2024 under the articles "participation in an armed group or armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state" and "financing the activities of an extremist group."

Human rights activists are unaware of the sentence or the nature of the charges, but in Belarus, the first article is typically used for prosecution for supporting Ukraine in the war. For such a donation, she could have been sentenced to five to ten years in a penal colony.

Trial outcome 30.07.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 12.11.2024
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.
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In custody: ~682 days
folder Categories of cases: Raid January 23-24, 2024
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 15.12.1972
Address for letters: IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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She was detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.

Trial outcome 01.10.2024
unknown.
Appeal 10.12.2024
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.
Alesya Leonidovna Sergeenko
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In custody: ~680 days
folder Categories of cases: Raid January 23-24, 2024
Hometown: Mogilev
Date of birth: 21.09.1983
Number of children: 2 children
Family members: Maxim Sergeevich Sergeenko
Address for letters: IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Alesya Sergeenko has been in a pre-trial detention center since the end of January as part of a criminal case (presumably she is charged with “promoting extremism”). She was detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.

It is also known that on February 21, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Mogilev considered the case under Decree No. 7 “On foreign gratuitous assistance” against Alesya. “Decree No. 7” is used in Belarus to judge those people against whom a mass raid was carried out at the end of January 2024. Then the KGB officers tried to find out who received food aid from abroad as part of the activities of the INeedHelp organization, recognized as a so-called “extremist formation.”
Alesya Sergeenko has two children - 3 and 16 years old. Her husband, Maxim Sergeenko, is a political prisoner who in April 2021 received a sentence of 3 years in prison from the Kruglyansky District Court.

Trial outcome 22.07.2024
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.09.2024
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.
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In custody: ~910 days
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth: 08.11.1969
Address for letters: IK β„–15, 212013, Mogilev, p/o Veyno, Slavgorodskoye shosse 183
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Igor was convicted of donating to initiatives recognized as extremist.

On September 29, 2023, an appeal hearing was held.

Trial outcome 17.07.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 29.09.2023
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.
Jeanne Petrovna Volkova
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In custody: 939 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests Gomel 2020
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 04.07.1979
Number of children: 2 children
Address for letters: IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Zhanna was detained on May 11, 2023, right at School No. 63, where she came to meet her child's teacher. In October of the same year, she was convicted on several criminal charges, including "inciting hatred."

According to media reports, during the 2020 protests, police detained her on administrative charges.

Trial outcome 18.10.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 05.01.2024
the sentence was upheld.
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.
Sergei Vitalievich Ivantsov
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In custody: ~1037 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 14.07.1984
Address for letters: IK β„–15, 212013, Mogilev, p/o Veyno, Slavgorodskoye shosse 183
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According to a channel associated with the security forces, he was detained for allegedly writing comments in the chat bot of the Belarus Brain channel. It is reported that he is in a pre-trial detention center and a criminal case has been opened against him under two articles (which are not specified).

Ivantsov is 38 years old. He studied at the Faculty of Biology of the Belarusian State University, worked as a junior researcher at the Academy of Sciences, and as a medical representative of several pharmaceutical companies. Since 2013, he has been the head of the De Viz company, which is engaged in marketing research in pharmacology. Five years ago, Ivantsov entered the graduate school of the Belarusian State Pedagogical University and worked at the university. Ivantsov is also a practicing psychologist, supporter and popularizer of the enneagram.

Trial outcome 31.05.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 18.08.2023
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.
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In custody: ~1008 days
folder Categories of cases: Machulishchi
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 27.03.1990
Address for letters: IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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Andrey Stepurko is 33 years old. The man graduated from the Radio Engineering College, and then «‎MITSO» International University. He worked as a software engineer in a polyclinic, a computer assembler, a computer operator, a sales consultant. It is known that he is fond of practical shooting, engaged in laser tag and other types of shooting games.

As far as we know, the man was detained in the case of the explosion of the plane in Machulishchi. He allegedly found an apartment for the alleged perpetrator of the sabotage in Machulishchi Nikolai Shvets.

Stepurko's parents and his brother were also detained.

Trial outcome 03.10.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 27.12.2024
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.
Oleg Igorevich Sychev
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In custody: ~1008 days
folder Categories of cases: Machulishchi
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 21.02.1976
Number of children: 2 children
Family members: Anastasia Anatolyevna Pilko
Address for letters: IK -22, p.o.b 20, Brest region, Ivatsevichi, st. Domanovo, 225295
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47 year old Oleg was born in Krasnoyarsk, but in 2000 he moved to Belarus and has already received citizenship. 

In the film on the ONT TV channel, they showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 at Oleg's house in the «Berezovaya Roshcha» garden association in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).

Sychev with his wife Nastya Pilko was detained by law enforcement officers on March 3 in the same house.

According to human rights activists, both of them are now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.

The detained couple has two juvenile children who are now with their grandmother.

Trial outcome 03.10.2024
9 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.12.2024
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.
Maksim Anatolevich Lopatin
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In custody: ~1008 days
folder Categories of cases: Machulishchi
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 08.03.1979
Number of children: 2 children
Address for letters: IK β„–17, 213004, Shklov, ul. 1-ya Zavodskaya, 8
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Detained together with his wife in the case of sabotage in Machulishchi.

Human rights activists received information that on March 3, Maxim Lopatin was detained by employees of the State Security Committee in the case of sabotage in Machulishchi. The man is being held in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.

Lopatin was severely beaten during the arrest. A film was released on ONT, which tells about some high-profile detentions, including the mention of Maxim. Allegedly his friend is a psychotherapist Evgenia Tochinskaya, who lives in Poland, asked to bring a Ukrainian agent Shvets from Stolin to the Lagoy highway on February 27.

The video shows that the man has dentures on his jaw, which may mean that it was broken. After splinting, there should be a serious stage of rehabilitation with eating and drinking water through a tube.

On March 23, Maxim's wife, Lyudmila Lopatina, was also detained. 

The couple has two juvenile children.

Trial outcome 03.10.2024
8 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 1000 basic values fine.
Appeal 27.12.2024
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.
Olga Igorevna Britikova
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In custody: ~857 days
folder Categories of cases: Anti-war campaigns
Hometown: Navapolatsk
Date of birth: 04.11.1971
Address for letters: IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Leader of the independent trade union "Naftan". Olga worked at the enterprise for 16 years and was fired because of her position. In May 2022, she was released after 75 days of arrest for speaking out against the war. She was detained on November 1 again under an administrative article.

Two days later, the court found her guilty of distributing "extremist materials" and sentenced her to 15 days in jail. On November 11, she was sentenced again to 15 days for "an unauthorized picket." The reason for the trial was a drawing with the inscription "No to war," which Olga published on social networks.
On November 21, 2022, it became known that Olga was transferred to a pre-trial detention center in Vitebsk.

In less than 2022, Britikova spent 105 days behind bars, including 75 days in a row in the spring.

She was detained again under Article 361, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus in August 2023. However, in the spring of 2024, Olga was tried under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

On June 11, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

On August 20, 2024, another closed trial was held over Olga. Yevgeny Burunov was appointed to hear her case in the Vitebsk Regional Court. The political prisoner is accused under three articles. It is known that Olga was given another three years in prison.

On December 20, 2024, the Supreme Court heard the appeal. Chairman of the Judicial Collegium Vladimir Davydov. According to the decision of the Collegium, Olga's second sentence was reduced by 1 year. Thus, the total term of the political prisoner is 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. As of early January 2025, Olga was in a pre-trial detention center, but at the end of the month she was transferred to Correctional Colony No. 4.

Trial outcome 08.04.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 11.06.2024
unknown.
Trial outcome 20.08.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 20.12.2024
2 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.
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In custody: ~832 days
folder Categories of cases: Anti-war campaigns
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 20.12.1981
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Leonid's first trial took place in the fall of 2022; he was charged under Article 369 and sentenced to restriction of freedom without referral.

The second trial was announced in August 2024. Leonid is accused of "financing the activities of an extremist group" (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code) and "recruiting, training or preparing for participation in a war, as well as providing material support for such activities" (Part 2 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code). The man was probably found to have donated to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The sentence is most likely related to imprisonment.

Leonid has a higher education , his last place of work was the private enterprise "Gomelstalstandart ".

Trial outcome 12.10.2022
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 22.08.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 29.10.2024
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.
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