The Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus for the Mogilev Region. Correctional Colony No. 2 in Babruisk. Head of the Operational-Regime Unit, Major.
Dmitry Rudolfovich Shinvize is an accomplice to the repressions in the Babruisk colony, guilty of using violence and creating harsh conditions for political prisoners: placing them in a punishment cell upon arrival, refusing to give them parcels, and prohibiting them from communicating with other prisoners. He greeted new arrivals with the words: "You have ended up in the 'reddest' colony in the world."
He is known for his cruelty and strict control of the regime, personally conducting inspections and punishing for the slightest violations, accompanying this with abuse and bullying. He gave propaganda lectures to political prisoners. In 2023, he introduced new restrictions on the mailing of books and medical supplies.
At the beginning of 2024, he resigned and went to Germany under the repatriation program for descendants of German colonists (Spätaussiedler). According to BELPOL, he lives under the name Dimitri Schönwiese in Schwerin. At least 50 political prisoners remain in Colony No. 2. The German authorities have been notified of his involvement in the repressions.
The Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus for the Mogilev Region. Correctional Colony No. 2 in Babruisk. Head of the Operational-Regime Unit, Major.
Dmitry Rudolfovich Shinvize is an accomplice to the repressions in the Babruisk colony, guilty of using violence and creating harsh conditions for political prisoners: placing them in a punishment cell upon arrival, refusing to give them parcels, and prohibiting them from communicating with other prisoners. He greeted new arrivals with the words: "You have ended up in the 'reddest' colony in the world."
He is known for his cruelty and strict control of the regime, personally conducting inspections and punishing for the slightest violations, accompanying this with abuse and bullying. He gave propaganda lectures to political prisoners. In 2023, he introduced new restrictions on the mailing of books and medical supplies.
At the beginning of 2024, he resigned and went to Germany under the repatriation program for descendants of German colonists (Spätaussiedler). According to BELPOL, he lives under the name Dimitri Schönwiese in Schwerin. At least 50 political prisoners remain in Colony No. 2. The German authorities have been notified of his involvement in the repressions.
As follows from the press release of the Brestobl Court, Evdokimenko was charged with the fact that from August to December 2020 he transferred “personal and other personal data of employees of internal affairs bodies for public dissemination on the Internet.” At the same time, I took the data from databases to which I had access at work. Presumably he worked at the Brest BTI.
On October 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 20.07.2023
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.
Member of the independent trade union JSC Grodno Azot.
He was detained in Grodno on January 10 for participating in protests in 2020 and for reposting on social networks. He also allegedly "insulted the president" in Telegram channels, employees of government bodies, policemen and at the same time passed information to the Belsat TV channel.
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.
Nikolai, a systems engineer and former employee of RUE Beltelecom, was detained in August 2021 as part of a criminal case initiated under the article "act of terrorism". In June 2023, he was convicted under several criminal articles, sentencing him to a long prison term.
According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, "an organized criminal group operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries with the goal of committing extremist crimes. The group included radical individuals, including former and current military personnel, law enforcement officers, athletes and businessmen, who sought to seize power illegally." The case involves charges of attempted arson of the home of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and "organizing mass riots."
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.
For several months he was in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee, then in the pre-trial detention center № 1 in Minsk, later he was transferred to the pre-trial detention center in Grodno.
Nikolay is a former customs officer, an activist of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party «Gramada». He is accused of helping those who wanted to illegally cross the Belarusian-Lithuanian border for money, as well as creating an extremist formation or participating in it.
Trial outcome 07.04.2023:
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
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.
The man was accused of creating and administering the telegram channel «23.34», which contained information about Belarusian judges.
Viktor was also accused of «aiding and abetting the deliberate actions of administrators and participants of a number of other destructive Telegram channels, which were aimed at inciting social hostility on the basis of a different social affiliation and which entailed serious consequences».
Trial outcome 19.01.2023:
11 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with reinforced regime.
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.
7 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 21.03.2023
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.
The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.
Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which the Television News Agency showed in 2021.
According to the ONT film, Vladimir Trifonov is a guide across the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, through which he had to illegally transfer Alexey Khralovich.
He began serving his sentence.
Trial outcome 26.10.2022:
14 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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.
At the beginning of January 2023, in one of the pro-government telegram channels, a video appeared with the detention of Sergei by GUBOP and AMON officers, who allegedly administered courtyard chats, including “Grodno Center 97%”; participated in protest rallies and called on others to participate in them, as well as to use violence against police officers, literally, “burn paddy wagons.”
Trial outcome 25.09.2023:
5 years of imprisonment with serving the sentence in a correctional colony under enhanced security conditions.
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.
Convicted of participating in protest actions 2020.
Trial outcome:
Imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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 resident of Vitebsk, detained for reposts on social networks. The court is closed, the young man has no relatives. It is known that he is about 30 years old, he left for work, he was detained in Belarus on his return. Three days after his arrest, his mother died. There are no more relatives left.
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 19 year old boy was convicted for messages in telegram chats that he left in February of this year. Presumably, such messages in the group chat were the guy's reaction to the war that began with the armed forces of Russia in Ukraine, including from the territory of Belarus.
Trial outcome 30.08.2022:
6,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
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.
He was convicted of posting "offensive" photographs of the national flag of the Republic of Belarus and comments about it on the Internet in November 2021.
He served his sentence in IK-22 and was transferred to IK-2 in December 2023.
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.
Andrey was detained by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption for posting extremist materials on his page vk.com. Andrey published a video of Lukashenko taking the oath in 1994 under a white-red-white flag.
He was convicted for participating in the Grodno Marches and comments in the chat.
The man did not admit guilt, but confirmed only the fact of writing comments on August 11 and 12, 2020. The man's participation in the Grodno Marches was not confirmed after watching videos from events in the city.
It became known that a laboratory and forensic medical examination was carried out in June 2022. She confirmed Andrey's mental illness. However, he was convicted anyway, and also included in the list of individuals and organizations involved in terrorist activities.
In August 2023, she was transferred to the prison regime.
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.
For the first time, Alexander Petushkov was detained in January 2022, after which the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs published a video with him. The reason for the detention was his comments about the events in Kazakhstan.
Alexander was detained again in April 2022. The reason for the initiation of a criminal case were reposts and comments with calls for a strike, the shutdown of enterprises, and the renewal of protests. He also offered to remove the shoulder straps to law enforcement officers and generals. In relation to Lukashenko, he used the words «usurper» and «illegitimate».
Trial outcome 19.10.2022:
7,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
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.
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