Oleg Petrovich Kalyada
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Oleg Petrovich Kalyada
For political reasons, fines were issued in the amount of 2835 rubles and 186 days of administrative arrest.
On April 13, he sentenced Alexey Lipena. The man was accused of insulting government officials and threatening to use violence against police officers. About 10 employees were victims in the case. Lipenya received 5 years of chemo.
He sentenced Yevgeny Kurganov, a political prisoner with III degree of disability, to 2 years in a general regime colony for “participation in an unauthorized mass event.”
He sentenced Oleg Asaul to three years in prison for insulting the president and an employee of the Department of Internal Affairs, Demina N.
For political reasons, fines were issued in the amount of 2835 rubles and 186 days of administrative arrest.
On April 13, he sentenced Alexey Lipena. The man was accused of insulting government officials and threatening to use violence against police officers. About 10 employees were victims in the case. Lipenya received 5 years of chemo.
He sentenced Yevgeny Kurganov, a political prisoner with III degree of disability, to 2 years in a general regime colony for “participation in an unauthorized mass event.”
He sentenced Oleg Asaul to three years in prison for insulting the president and an employee of the Department of Internal Affairs, Demina N.
List of repressed
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- Twice political prisoners
Andrei, an activist from Vileika, was arrested on August 9, 2021, and sentenced to administrative arrest, which he served in detention centers in Vileika and Smolevichi. He received a total of 90 days of administrative arrest, which he served under harsh conditions. He was then transferred to the Okrestina temporary detention center and then to a pretrial detention center for the criminal case.
In February 2022, he was found guilty of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in July 2023, having fully served his sentence.
In October 2023, he was arrested again for 15 days for congratulating Ukraine on Independence Day on TikTok. The Vileika District Court classified it as "unauthorized picketing."
On February 15, 2024, Andrei went silent. It was later revealed that he was being held in a local temporary detention facility, serving 15 days of administrative arrest. However, he was not released after serving his sentence, as he was detained in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "discrediting the Republic of Belarus."
In July 2024, he was convicted again and sentenced to imprisonment and ordered to pay a large fine.
- Associations
- Activists
An anarchist activist was detained while crossing the Belarusian border on the night of October 28-29, 2020 and accused of “arson” and “terrorism.”
In September 2022, a new criminal case was opened against Dmitry and he was sentenced to five years in prison. Taking into account the previous sentence, he was finally sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security penal colony.
In August 2023, Dmitry was transferred to prison regime for “violating the rules of the order.”
A court hearing was held on October 31, 2023. In November 2023, the sentence came into force.
Aleksandr Osipovich is now 48 years old. He is a product of the Minsk Dynamo youth system. At the adult level, Osipovich first played for the Dynamo farm team in D2, from where he was called up to the youth team (he eventually played 15 matches there). He made his debut for the main team of the "white-blues" in mid-1997 - he began to appear regularly in the lineup, and the team won the championship title. Later in his career, he played for Lithuanian "Zalgiris", Polish "Zagłębie", as well as other clubs in Belarus and neighboring countries. After finishing his career, Osipovich became a football agent and also worked as a "football tutor".
At the end of 2022, Alexander was detained by "security forces" in Minsk. Later, human rights activists managed to find out that on January 9, 2023, Osipovich was "tried" under the article under which they punished for "insulting" Alexander Lukashenko (now they have added his family members there). The "sentence" was passed by Oleg Kalyada, who has more than one "political" case under his belt.
According to human rights activists, he has already been released.
Detained for participating in post-election protests and for registering in the Peramoga chat bot. It is known that earlier Andrushkevich was detained on art. 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
Lidiya was arrested in January 2022 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In April 2022, she was convicted of participating in the "March for Freedom" protest that took place on August 16, 2020, in Minsk and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Lidiya left Belarus before starting to serve her sentence.
In October 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment with serving the sentence in a penal colony.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
- Associations
- Parents of minors
A resident of Minsk. Father of 6 children: 4 boys and 2 girls, aged from 1 to 16 years.
Detained on December 7, 2021 for participating in protests on August 10, 2020 near a supermarket in «Riga», was identified on video. Convicted on June 16, 2022.
Sergei was found guilty in a criminal case brought under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them," for his participation in post-election protests that took place in Minsk in 2020. The criminal case was initiated following photographs in which Sergei was identified by operatives during social media monitoring.
Ruslan was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." In November of that year, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in Minsk in September 2020.
He was released in February 2024, having fully served his sentence.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Artem was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In November 2021, he was found guilty of standing in a group of vehicles on Lenin Street, stepping onto the roadway on Nezavisimosti Avenue, and several other streets during a protest in Minsk on September 6, 2020.
For some time, Artem was undergoing compulsory treatment due to his mental state.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
- Associations
- Military
- Associations
- Military
Maxim was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and was remanded in custody pending trial.
In November 2021, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place in Minsk from August 9 to 10, 2020. It is also known that during the protest, he was detained by security forces and severely beaten. Maxim was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility, but was released in the courtroom.
Left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
In February 2025, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding on the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.