36-year-old Oleg Shvaiko worked with the women's team at the Minsk football club. It is known that he expressed an active position regarding the events in Belarus in 2020. At the end of 2021, the coach left the Minsk structure. He was detained on November 4, 2022. After his arrest, he was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest. Oleg was then transferred to a pre-trial detention center as part of a criminal case for participating in the 2020 protests.
According to human rights activists, he was released in July 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Author of the Spadchyna telegram channel, Wikipedia editor and Twitter blogger.
In the pro-government video, Chekhovich says that he is “against the current government and supports Ukraine.”
Released after administrative arrest (13 days).
At the end of July 2024, he was released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years in prison
The case was dismissed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. However, the policeman, who is considered the victim in this case, said that he would still file for compensation for moral damage to him (by filing a civil lawsuit).
CASE IS CLOSED
He worked as an international transportation manager for the Minsk company Transglobal.
Sergey was very active in commenting on various messages in more than 30 groups. The Telegram account was more or less decently protected, but he had not changed it since 2018.
The security forces accuse him of "threatening government officials on the Internet" (he left 43 thousand comments). And also of transferring some information about his former classmate, a security officer, to the "Black Book of Belarus". 58 criminal cases have been opened against him.
On September 29, 2023, he was sent to pretrial detention center No. 4 (Mogilev). On October 27, Sergei's appeal was considered in the Minsk City Court. In late autumn 2023, it became known that Sergei had been transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1 as part of a new criminal case. The trial under Article 369 (insulting a government official) was scheduled for December 7, 2023, in the Minsk Moskovsky District Court, Judge Tatyana Pirozhnikova.
Trial outcome 10.08.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.10.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 08.12.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.02.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Alexandra works as a manager at the logistics company Trans Solutions. The reason for the arrest was her photographs on Tinder, where she stands on the road with a white-red-white flag during one of the protest marches in 2020. The publication about the arrest appeared in one of the unofficial telegram channels of security forces. A “repentance” video was shot with the girl, where she confirms her participation in the protests. At first she was placed in a temporary detention facility, then a criminal case was opened against her.
On April 21, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Grigory returned to Belarus in March 2022, where he was detained. The reason for the return was the mother's illness (cancer was found), and then the cancer was found in the father.
Grigory has not been in Belarus for a year and a half: since the end of November 2020. As he told the court, the reason for his departure was the inability to find a job in his specialty, as well as the need to deal with the documents of his grandmother (a citizen of Ukraine, but there is a Belarusian residence permit).
The man was convicted for participating in protest actions in Brest in 2020 (in the case of round dances).
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Employee of "Brestgazoapparat". He was detained right at the factory, from where he was taken out in handcuffs. Presumably for comments on social networks.
The appeal trial was held on March 3, 2023.
Released in the fall of 2023, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
unknown years of imprisonment in the colony
On November 23, 2022, the Gomel Regional Court considered the appeal.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years imprisonment in a colony
As stated by the investigation, Ruslan from February 2017 to November 2020 posted on his page in ok.ru publications with insulting and slanderous statements against Lukashenko. There were also accusations of Lukashenko's murder in the publications.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Has group 3 disability (hearing loss). Accused of posting an offensive comment in the telegram messenger regarding A.G. Lukashenko. The prosecutor requested 1.5 years in prison.
A sign language interpreter was also involved in the process.
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of 2023.
1 year and 2 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the prosecution’s position , Stepanyuk was detained at 01:50 at night under Article 24.4 of the Administrative Code, he was taken in a police car to the police department, and on the way to the police station, Stepanyuk spoke insultingly about the police and Alexander Lukashenko using profanity, everything was recorded on the video recorder. Andrei Stepanyuk made a full admission of guilt at the trial. During the investigation, he identified himself on video recordings. As aggravating circumstances, they are asked to take into account a recent conviction under Article 149 of the Criminal Code, and as a mitigating circumstance - the presence of a dependent small child.
On 02/03/2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
He ran the travel agency "Studio Travel", and was a lawyer by education. Anton has a daughter who was born after he was detained.
Anton was convicted for photos from the protests that he had on his mobile phone, but in which he was not present. And also for an episode with a scuffle with a security officer in the metro, where passengers prevented the detention and beating of a person after a protest. Anton got on video by accident and was detained and convicted 2 years later.
On 21.03.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
| 23.01.2023 | There is a newborn daughter. 0.5 years. |
| 23.01.2023 | He is on preventive records as prone to taking hostages and attacking the administration. Red card. |
2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Trial outcome 16.01.2023: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 21.03.2023: the sentence was upheld.
He was detained for administering the chat "Typical Silver", but the case was sent to court with charges only for protest actions.
He was released in September 2024 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.
| 14.06.2023 | Апелляция оставила приговор без изменений. |
| 12.05.2023 | заседание по аппеляции Глеба будет 13.06.23г. в Минском городском суде. Время ещё не проставлено. |
Trial outcome 23.03.2023: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.06.2023: the sentence was upheld.
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