2 year imprisonment in a colony
unknown years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility.
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He was convicted for his participation in the 2020 protests.
On June 12, 2024, Yegor's trial was rescheduled for malicious disobedience to the prison administration. He faces an additional year of imprisonment.
According to calculations , he was supposed to be released in the fall of 2025 .
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Citizen of Ukraine. Larisa Krupa is involved in the case along with Zakharenko. The women are accused under articles of failure to report a crime (Part 2 of Article 406 of the Criminal Code) and espionage (Article 358 of the Criminal Code). The trial will be held behind closed doors.
Natalya has been traveling to Belarus since the second half of 2022. She helped Ukrainians who were stuck in Belarus and could not get out on their own, leave the country. She traveled to Belarus in her own car. Zakharanka helped smuggle about 30 people out of Belarus.
During another trip to Belarus, the woman disappeared. She stopped communicating on July 17, 2023.
It is known that, in addition to the prison term, the court decided to confiscate Natalya’s minibus.
Her friend, Belarusian from Mozyr Larisa Krupa, was awarded a fine of 100 basic units (4 thousand Belarusian rubles) for “failure to report a crime.”
The circumstances of the accusation are unknown, as are the details of the trial; the trial was closed.
On May 24, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
On the evening of June 28, 2024, sudden information appeared about the release of five political prisoners from Belarusian colonies. The Ukrainian authorities achieved the release of their exchange citizens as prisoners. This is how Natalya Zakharenko, Pavel Kuprienko, Lyudmila Goncharenko, Ekaterina Bryukhanova, as well as Nikolai Shvets, a defendant in the “Machulishchi case,” were released. The terms of the exchange were not disclosed. It is noted that the Vatican took part in the liberation. The released political prisoners were brought to Ukraine on June 28 - their photo from the Zhulyany airport appeared in the media.
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Since 1996, he has been actively involved in the life of Catholic youth. He participated in local and parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2004. He was one of the initiators of the formation of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party. But since 2011 he has withdrawn from active participation in political life.
He was convicted, among other things, for posting information about the «Freedom March» on his page on August 15, 2020, on August 17 he posted information in which he analyzes the mistakes of the last march, on August 20, 2020 he posted information about how to act when suppressing protests by law enforcement officers. He left more than twenty such messages.
Artyukhov was also accused of direct participation in one such action in Minsk in August 2020.
Nikolay admitted his guilt in the commission of the acts incriminated to him in full at the court hearing, did not deny the authorship of the texts and messages that he left on the social network vk.ru and facebook.com.
Alexander was detained on June 28, 2021, and his home was searched. He was released after seven days of administrative arrest, but was detained again under a criminal article.
In 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
2,6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
It is known about Anton that he is 29 years old, enjoys football and, judging by his social networks, supports the English club «Liverpool». And the man is not just a football fan — on his vk.com page you can find a photo where Anton himself plays on the field. And in the archived match data, it can be found that from at least 2015 to 2019, he played for the Brest amateur club «Smena».
At the trial, it was about Anton's Internet activity. According to the accusation, the man posted a video with Alexander Lukashenko on Storis and accompanied it with an insulting one-word inscription.
In September he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Lyudmila is a resident of the Krupsky district, she has tuberculosis, has chronic alcoholism and several criminal records.
On the day of her detention on September 19, 2021, she was traveling to an infectious diseases hospital to be treated for tuberculosis. At the railway station in Molodechno, a woman was sitting on a bench and drinking alcohol when police officers approached her. In front of them, she started shouting that Lukashenko is a goat, pays his policemen who do nothing. This was recorded by video recording devices used by police officers.
According to human rights activists, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was convicted because Zhodino policeman Nikolai Baranovsky considered himself insulted by his comment on social networks. At the trial, Dmitry Ivanov admitted his guilt and apologized to the policeman. He paid compensation for moral damage in the amount of one thousand rubles before the trial. Ivanov could not sit during the trial because of pain in his kidneys. Dmitry was released in the courtroom. The prosecutor asked the court to sentence the accused to two years in prison. On the day of the verdict, the man had a son.
Disagreeing with the punishment imposed due to its leniency, the Cherikov District Prosecutor filed an appeal. By decision of the Criminal Cases Panel of the Mogilev Regional Court, Ivanov was given a more severe punishment.
According to human rights activists , he was released on February 25, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
At the end of October 2022, six men were detained in Minsk for allegedly hanging a sewn white-red-white flag along with the flag of Ukraine on power line supports in Minsk on October 7. These are Igor Tepteev, Yuri Nesterenko, Victor Grinko, Valery Balabeshko, Vladimir Savelyev, Igor Tikach. Only the next day a post appeared on Anton Mot’s Telegram channel with a photo of the flag and the caption: “Minsk residents congratulate the Ukrainian people on the wonderful news from the Crimean bridge. Crime is Ukraine! Long live Belarus! Glory to Ukraine!”
It is reported that it was Yuri who took the photo, which later appeared in Anton Motolko’s tg channel. But Yuri himself said that he sent the photo only to a friendly chat.
On September 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Loader of the Gomel winery. Dmitry did not participate in any political protests against the current government of the Republic of Belarus, but on the contrary, he participated in a bike ride in support of Lukashenko and took part as a vigilante on his day off at the elections in 2020.
Dmitry Malashenko was put on trial for comments: «It's scarier in the country than in Somalia»; and: «If I had a gun and such people would break down to me, I would also defend my house, if only I made barricades»; under a post with a video of the detention and murder of IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a public in the social network vk.com. During the trial, Dmitry first pleaded guilty in full, but during the trial it turned out that in fact the man watched only a piece of the video, because he was going to work and in a hurry, he did not read the news and took the people who opened Zeltser's apartment for criminals, therefore he wrote such a comment. Dmitry Malashenko also did not admit that he could discredit law enforcement officers in general and specifically those who entered the apartment in this way, but just expressed his personal opinion, to which he has the right.
According to human rights activists, he was released.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Pensioner. Convicted of “insulting” Lukashenko.
On June 28, 2024, in the Leninsky District Court of Minsk, Judge Marina Klimchuk will make a decision “On changing compulsory security and treatment measures.”
