Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Correctional Colony No. 1. Such actions include psychological and, in some cases, physical violence, illegal sending to solitary confinement, restrictions on correspondence and receiving parcels from persons in the institution.
He exerted pressure on prisoner Ilya Baranovsky, which significantly worsened his health.
It was under his leadership that Viktor Babariko was hospitalized from the colony to the city hospital on April 25, 2023. In this colony, convicts are systematically brutally beaten.
Before becoming the head, he also took direct part in beating convicts, helping the former head of the colony.
Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Correctional Colony No. 1. Such actions include psychological and, in some cases, physical violence, illegal sending to solitary confinement, restrictions on correspondence and receiving parcels from persons in the institution.
He exerted pressure on prisoner Ilya Baranovsky, which significantly worsened his health.
It was under his leadership that Viktor Babariko was hospitalized from the colony to the city hospital on April 25, 2023. In this colony, convicts are systematically brutally beaten.
Before becoming the head, he also took direct part in beating convicts, helping the former head of the colony.
Detained for hanging a white-red-white flag After their detention, the channel in the Zello mobile application through which they communicated during the rally was recognized as an extremist formation.
21.03.2023
The trial began on March 20, 2023, Judge Kuchuk
Trial outcome 06.04.2023
4 years 9 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
According to the prosecution, in September 2020, Kolpak publicly posted "negative comments addressed to police officers, civil servants, and government officials in a Telegram chat, inciting and calling for violence against members of the aforementioned social groups." He was also accused of repeatedly posting text articles in a Telegram chat in Minsk from August 8 to September 28, 2020, in which he called on drivers to create traffic jams, sabotage work, and protest, including by blocking traffic.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the fall of 2025.
Trial outcome 29.09.2022
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The man was detained in July 2022. It is known that he worked as a driver at the Gomelsteklo enterprise.
A video of Mikhail’s arrest appeared in pro-government public pages, where the man himself says that he allegedly posted a photo of Lukashenko in “indecent form” on Odnoklassniki. And in the pro-government public, the man was also accused of distributing “extremist materials.”
In the spring of 2024 he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Maxim was detained at the end of September 2020 as part of a criminal case initiated after the murder of IT specialist Andrei Zeltser and State Security Committee employee Dmitry Fedosyuk in the Minsk apartment.
The Court of Appeal reduced Vadim's term by three months.
Convicted for a video in which he condemns Lukashenko's actions during the war. The video was accidentally uploaded by his daughter to social networks.
In the fall of 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
He was detained for driving a car near Pinsk and looking at the location of military units. According to the investigation, Anton sent this data to a Belarusian Telegram channel and to someone in Ukraine.
Anton was tried for leaking state secrets. The trial was held behind closed doors, so the details of how the hearing went are unknown.
In November 2024, he was released after serving his sentence.
He was detained for taking photographs of military equipment with a mobile phone camera, filming the movements of military vehicles and subsequently passing this information on to the administrators of “extremist” Telegram channels.
04/21/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
When they came to search him, he was at home with his mother. When people in civilian clothes attacked him, he was asleep and when he woke up, pushed one of the law enforcement officers. After that, Andrei was severely beaten.
Convicted of participating in protest actions 2020.
Trial outcome 15.08.2022
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Detained for a comment in a telegram chat after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment. Victor suffers from diabetes, an insulin-dependent form, and has a disability.
On May 17, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 29.07.2022:
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of the general regime.
Third-year student. Was brutally detained in cars with his mother. In the car, the wheels were shot through and the windows were broken by the security forces. During the arrest, violence was used. The young man was accused of transporting Molotov cocktails.
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