Three more people were convicted along with Nikita. Apparently, all four were accused of participating in a protest in Bereza on August 10, 2020. Pro-government Telegram channels reported in September 2024 that 10 people were detained in Bereza at once, and everyone was forced to "confess" on camera to participating in those protests.
Trial outcome 14.01.2025
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
44-year-old Ivanovo resident Alexander Dorogupets was accused of transferring at least 11 thousand rubles in cash and cryptocurrency to “extremist groups,” including the Kalinovsky Regiment.
During the investigation of the criminal case, the man “voluntarily transferred” 600 thousand US dollars to the Cherven boarding school for disabled children with special psychophysical development needs, the Ivenets boarding school for disabled children with special physical development needs, and the Republican Center for the Organization of Medical Response.
On April 2, 2025, ONT aired another propaganda story, "Shadows. The Price of Terror," which told about the persecution of people for donations and those detained for financing organizations recognized by the authorities as "extremist" or "terrorist." The film showed several convicted people and those still awaiting trial. According to the story, Alexander was convicted, among other things, for donations to the Kalinovsky Regiment, BySol, and various information resources. The propagandists name 18 donations for a total of no less than three thousand euros.
Trial outcome 10.01.2025
5 years 5 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 50000 basic values fine.
Appeal 18.03.2025
unknown.
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4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 15.10.2024
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.
Until 2011, Dmitry worked as a platoon commander of the Kobrin department of the security department and was a police captain. He is married and has a daughter. In November 2012, the Brest Intergarrison Military Court sentenced Peretolchin to 3.5 years in prison with a three-year deferment under the article on fraud (Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code). He was stripped of the rank of police captain. After that, he worked as a foundryman at Polesie and as a specialist at Dobronom.
He was convicted in the Brest Regional Court under Part 1 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code (treason (as amended by the Law of 09.01.2019)) and Part 2 of Article 406 of the Criminal Code (failure to report a crime).
Trial outcome 03.10.2024
12 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 26.11.2024
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.
A special forces detachment burst into Alexey’s home, they knocked the man to the floor and one security officer sat with his knees on Samoiluk’s body (with one knee on Samoiluk’s neck).
The pro-government channel claims that Samoiluk “threw stones at the police during the riots.” In that publication on the same channel they also posted photographs: in one picture there are two people in hoods and masks, one holding a Ukrainian flag, the second a sheet of paper with the text “Brest residents with Ukraine.”
Trial outcome 05.08.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 08.10.2024
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.
It is known that Victoria was detained in October 2020 during the post-election protest, the Sunday Partisan March. In December 2024, she was convicted of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
Alexander was convicted in December 2024 under the article "organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
Maksimuk Dmitry will be tried together with Melnichuk Ilya and Leshkevich Mikhail.
Apparently, everyone is accused of taking part in a post-election protest in Brest on August 10, 2020. This is how security forces reported on the detention of Dmitry Maksimuk 2 months ago. In a video recorded under duress, Dmitry said that in 2020 he was on Masherov Avenue [in Brest] among a crowd that was shouting slogans at the police.
Trial outcome 11.11.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Trial outcome 30.01.2025
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Alexander was convicted in the fall of 2024 of "assisting extremist activity" and sentenced to imprisonment; he pleaded not guilty at trial. Alexander is known to have a disability—he is missing one leg. His last known place of employment was the Kobrin Veterinary Station, from where he went on strike on March 25, 2021.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
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