The meeting was an off-site event and took place in the premises of the Dobrush municipal unitary enterprise.
The man was accused of leaving messages in one of the Telegram chats calling for participation in protests, and also sending "various news and information of a destructive nature" to the chat. At the trial, he said that he himself had participated in protests twice. The man fully admitted his guilt and repented of what he had done.
Galymzhan Bakirov has a secondary education. He worked at the Dobrush paper mill.
According to human rights activists,he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 20.04.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The appeal court hearing took place on June 16, 2023. The verdict entered into force.
Sergei is known to be free, but his politically motivated sentence, where he will be serving his sentence, and his release date remain unknown due to the closed judicial system in Belarus.
Trial outcome 18.04.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
He was engaged in making wooden toys. He led a group on VKontakte, which included artisans.
In 2020, he began writing critical messages about the situation with the presidential elections in Belarus in a group with about 6 thousand participants. Renamed the group to “Belarus without rudeness.” After 2021, activity in the group decreased, but with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, Dmitry began to speak out against the war in it. The group was eventually recognized as an “extremist formation.”
On April 4, 2023, Dmitry was detained and sent to serve 15 days of arrest, which he had been sentenced to earlier. However, after his arrest he was not released.
On February 16, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 15.12.2023:
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
According to the case materials , on February 27, 2022, 36-year-old Dmitry, during the republican referendum, was at the polling station, allegedly in a state of intoxication, having received a ballot, he wrote an obscene inscription on it addressed to the head of state. Then, without putting the ballot in the ballot box, the accused presented it unfolded to members of the commission, thereby disrupting the work of the polling station.
An inscription was found on the ballot: “Lukashenko and Putin...”; “Lukashenko and Putin...” in a perverted form.
The prosecution representative requested two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, but taking into account the amnesty, this period should be reduced by one year.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 10.04.2023:
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The resident of Brest was accused of writing 2 comments under a video with Lukashenko on May 24, 2021, in the Facebook group “People’s Verdict”. One message said “sick person”, the second “schizophrenic”.
On May 16, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she was released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Ilya was arrested and convicted in the spring of 2023 for "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open-type institution.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
Andrey Stepurko is 33 years old. He graduated from a radio engineering college and then from MITSO International University. He has worked as a software engineer at a clinic, a computer assembler, a computer operator, and a sales consultant. He is known to be an enthusiast of practical shooting, laser tag, and other shooting sports.
As far as we know , a man has been arrested in connection with the Machulishchi plane bombing. He allegedly found an apartment for Nikolai Shvets, the alleged perpetrator of the Machulishchi bombing .
Stepurko's parents and brother were also detained.
He was released in March 2026.
Trial outcome 03.10.2024
6 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
41 year old Anastasia has worked a lot of places, but the last known place of work is the director of the printing house of LLC «Electronic Agent».
The film on the ONT TV channel showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 in the house of Nastya and her husband Oleg Sychev in the garden association «Berezovaya Roshcha» in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).
Artem Zubryakov, a Belagro employee, was detained in late September 2022 along with his colleagues. Criminal cases were reportedly opened against four of them, and approximately 20 were detained. Pro-government sources reported that the company's employees had been actively protesting since 2020.
During a search in the fall of 2022, paraphernalia and furniture in white-red-white colors were seized from them.
Artem Zubryakov noted that he was detained for subscribing to "prohibited" Telegram channels and forwarding "extremist" materials.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
A taxi driver who was harshly detained by riot police at the end of January 2023 while he was waiting for an order near the bus station. Friends had been waiting for Roman since “days”, as they knew that he was detained for old likes on the Odnoklassniki social network. But then it turned out that the man was detained under Art. 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 21, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to estimates, the human rights defender will be released at the end of 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 17.04.2023:
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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