Resident of Novopolotsk. Convicted for a comment on the social network VKontakte.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
4 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.
On June 7, 2023, the punishment regime was tightened. Transferred to a colony for 1 year.
Resident of Dribin, convicted for insulting the state symbol.
The reason for initiating a criminal case was that he, together with Viktoria Zherdetskaya (another person involved in the case), on their Youtube channel “in order to make their channel popular and demonstrate their blasphemous attitude” altered the graphic image of the State Emblem. The resulting graphic image was subsequently used by the defendants as the logo of the Telegram and Youtube channels, as well as in the videos that they uploaded to their channel. He was released on October 24, 2021.
3 months of arrest
Detained for participating in protests on August 9, 2020.
He was released in the fall of 2023.
| 24.11.2021 | He is on the list of the HRC "Spring", but is not recognized as a political prisoner. Leshkevich Boris Stanislavovich, who is recognized as a political prisoner, is involved in the case with him. Both were sentenced to 2 years of "chemistry" with a referral, the result of the appeal - the sentence was upheld. |
2 years of restriction of liberty with a referral
Detained in the case of "Brest round dances". He was detained by three GUBOPiK officers together with his family (wife and children aged 5 and 8). During the interrogation, operatives from the Department of Internal Affairs of the Moskovsky district kept the children in the corridor for four hours. After everyone was transferred to the Investigative Committee, where they were also interrogated for four hours. Then the family was released, and Vladimir was detained, and then sentenced to 1.5 years in a colony on the "case of round dances." On February 1, a second trial took place and Vladimir was found guilty of insulting a traffic police officer, Yuri Demyanovich. By partial addition of punishment, since at the time of the trial Goncharov was already serving a term in the colony in the "dance case", the man was sentenced to 2 years in prison in a general regime colony.
Released after expiration of sentence.
2 years in a general regime colony
He was detained and convicted as part of a criminal case initiated after protests in Brest in August 2020.
Released in May 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
3.5 years in prison under enhanced regime.
Convicted by the Vitebsk District Court for insulting the former Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Barsukov in a telegram chat.
Released on June 19, 2023 after the expiration of the sentence.
| 25.11.2022 | 10/30/2022 was taken from chemistry and the next day was convicted under 19.11 Koap, given 5 days |
| 08.08.2021 | 07/05/2021 was registered as an extremist |
A resident of Vitebsk, was detained on July 14, 2021, according to the prosecution, he insulted Nikolai Karpenkov (former head of the GUBOPiK), Lydia Yermoshina (chairman of the CEC), Alina Kasyanchik (prosecutor for politically motivated criminal cases), Vadim Denisenko (military commander), Marina Zapasnik (judge court of the Leninsky district of the city of Minsk) and Natalya Buguk (judge of the court of the Frunzensky district of the city of Minsk), Lukashenko A.G.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Detained on May 4, 2021.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
3 years in prison.
The basis for initiating a criminal case was a comment under a post about the head of the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Vitebsk Sergei Stashevsky , who forced teachers to rewrite election protocols. This is not the first trial in Vitebsk for insulting Stashevsky.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom .
Deryagin was accused of being intoxicated on April 16, 2021 in a trolleybus, he repeatedly expressed a sharp and negative assessment of the personality of Alexander Lukashenko , which harmed his honor and dignity and was aimed at undermining his authority. With this, he publicly insulted Lukashenka. Taken into custody in the courtroom on July 23, 2021. He was released on October 23, 2021.
3 months of arrest .
Convicted on June 23, 2021 for commenting on OMON actions against civilians. There are three children at home.
Released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
| 06.10.2021 | 10/03/2021 transferred from SIZO-3 to IK-15, Mogilev |
| 17.08.2021 | In early July, already in the pre-trial detention center, he was registered as an extremist. |
| 28.07.2021 | Located in Gomel in Sizo-3, st. Book 1 "A". |
3 years in prison.
A resident of Gomel, convicted for insulting a representative of the authorities. Pardoned and released from punishment on July 13, 2022.
1 year and 6 months of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional institution ("chemistry")
On July 19, a search was conducted in the apartment of Tatiana and her husband, after the search the spouses were detained. They are being held in the KGB pre-trial detention center.
On July 19, a search was conducted in the apartment of Andrey and his wife, after the search the spouses were detained. They are being held in the KGB pre-trial detention center.
Belsat journalist. He worked in the newspaper "Belorusy i Rynok", the Belarusian service of "Radio Svaboda", published in Russian and Ukrainian publications. Together with his wife, journalist Ekaterina Andreyeva (who is now imprisoned), he wrote the book "Belarusian Donbass" - a documentary study on the role of Belarusian citizens in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Igor was detained on July 16 during mass searches of independent journalists in Minsk and other cities of Belarus. The journalist's apartment was searched, his equipment and books were taken away, and then he was placed in a temporary detention center and was not released after 72 hours. It became known that Igor was detained as part of a criminal case for 10 days.
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