Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions. For a long time - almost 10 years - he led the independent trade union "Grodno Azot".
In 2022, he became one of the defendants in the case of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions. In December 2022, he was sentenced to 2 years in prison for “gross violation of order” (Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code).
The leaders of the “Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions” were detained on April 19, 2022, and the houses of the association’s chairman Alexander Yarashuk and Sergei Antusevich were searched. The BKDP itself was liquidated by decision of the Supreme Court.
On October 31, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 26.12.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Activist of the branch of the independent trade union of radio-electronic industry workers in Orsha. At one time, he led a school in Vysokoye and headed the district Council of Deputies, but after the establishment of a dictatorship in the country, he left the bureaucracy and eventually joined the human rights sphere. To date, he is 71 years old.
While still in the pre-trial detention center, Vasily’s health condition deteriorated significantly: the most dangerous thing is that he suffers from pain in his only kidney. However, the situation is so critical that drug treatment does not make sense. Need a kidney transplant.
During the arrest, Alexander’s phone was taken away and after they looked through it, they drew up a report on art. 19.11 Code of Administrative Offences, and later sentenced to administrative arrest.
But after “24 hours” Alexander was not released. The reason for opening a criminal case was the transfer of photos of Russian military equipment to the telegram channel “Belarusian Gayun”.
On April 15, Lucinovich was placed in Gomel pre-trial detention center-3 and charged.
Released on January 13, 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 22.07.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for creating the cultural and historical Telegram channel “Rezystans”.
"Rezystans" was recognized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs as an "extremist group" on March 29, 2022, after Nikita's 15-day administrative arrest, which he served in February under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials). The "Rezystans" Telegram channel has now been deleted.
12/13/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for participating in protests in 2020 and for registering as a volunteer in Ukraine. Programmer. Maxim was initially sentenced to 1.5 years in prison. After that, he independently wrote an appeal, where he described in detail everything that was illegal in his case and in court. After that, his sentence was increased to 2.5 years.
Trial outcome 09.11.2022
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, he was detained for registration in the «Peramoga» plan, as well as for comments in social networks.
According to the prosecutor's office, from December 29 to April 30, 2021, Pavel published deliberately false information about the work of the Belarusian police and authorities on Wikipedia and on the website of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR).
Released in the summer of 2023 after the expiration of the sentence.
The Homel resident's fault was only in one episode: on March 9, he was driving his car along Lenin Avenue, noticed a Russian military KAMAZ, took a picture of it on an iPhone and sent the picture to an information Telegram channel recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus.
To detain him, the police staged a whole special operation. Andrey was harshly pressured during interrogations.
On December 27, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 01.08.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the position of the state prosecution, Sanyuta, a resident of Baranovichi, incited hostility against law enforcement officers, namely: on August 12, 2020, he posted one message in the telegram chat «Baranovichi 97%». In this message, calls for violence against the security forces were seen in two places: «Look for law enforcement officers who come to mass events in civilian clothes and beat them with a crowd», «Lure a special purpose militia unit into ambushes».
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