He passed sentences on the second and fourth “ten” in the “round dance case.” Sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 6 months of “domestic chemicals.” He sentenced a woman to a year in prison for “publicly insulting” Lukashenko at home. In 2020, he issued fines and days of arrest to Belarusians. In 2019, he tried a human rights activist for “feeding pigeons.”
He passed sentences on the second and fourth “ten” in the “round dance case.” Sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 6 months of “domestic chemicals.” He sentenced a woman to a year in prison for “publicly insulting” Lukashenko at home. In 2020, he issued fines and days of arrest to Belarusians. In 2019, he tried a human rights activist for “feeding pigeons.”
He was convicted of participating in a protest held in the city of Brest on August 10, 2020 (Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code), as well as for possession of narcotics (Part 3 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code).
Trial outcome date unknown
10 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 50 basic values fine.
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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.
Vladimir was convicted in December 2024 under the article "organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
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."
According to the court report , the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, deliberately obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
This is already the 14th group of people who have been convicted under Article 342 of the Criminal Code for the protests of that day in Brest.
Trial outcome 06.11.2024
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the court , the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, in Brest, people "shouted slogans, displayed white-red-white banners, and intentionally obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of businesses." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
This is already the 14th group of people who have been convicted under Article 342 of the Criminal Code for the protests that day in Brest.
According to calculations, he was supposed to be released in the fall of 2025.
Trial outcome 06.11.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the court , the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, in Brest, people "shouted slogans, displayed white-red-white banners, and intentionally obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of businesses." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
This is already the 14th group of people who have been convicted under Article 342 of the Criminal Code for the protests that day in Brest.
He is expectedto be released in the spring of 2025.
Trial outcome 06.11.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Ilya was detained by security forces in August 2024 for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest in August 2020. A video appeared on a pro-government Telegram channel in which Ilya says that on August 10, 2020, he "stupidly went to Brest." He said he went out onto the roadway where "people were throwing stones, setting off fireworks, and building barricades." He also stated that he was at the protest with a friend who was already "serving a sentence."
In December 2024, Ilya was convicted under the article "organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
Nikita, Larisa Yakhimovich's son, was arrested in March 2024 as part of a criminal case opened following the spontaneous protests that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020, against voter fraud in the presidential election. He was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order."
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.
Igor worked in Poland as an electrician. He was detained while crossing the Polish-Belarusian border.
In a pro-government video, Sorokin says that he went out onto the roadway and blocked traffic. The video is obviously from the protest action on August 10, 2020, which took place in Brest. Specifically, the moment of the skirmish at the intersection of the boulevards and Masherov Avenue.
According to human rights activists, he was released on May 9, 2025.
Trial outcome 05.08.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Artyom was found guilty of desecrating state symbols. According to the prosecution, in September 2020, near a fountain on Sovetskaya Street in Brest, he attempted to set fire to the national flag, and when he failed, he tore it to pieces.
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