According to the case file, in January 2022, Matyrko tore the flagpole from the building of the Krasnopolsky district node of electric networks and threw it on the snow. After that, he picked up the flag and took it to his home, where he burned it in a heating furnace.
According to human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Pavel has a disability, he has stage four cancer. His condition noticeably worsened in custody, the inflammatory process began. In July 2022, during the medical rehabilitation expert commission, Pavel was assigned the first disability group - before that he had a disability of the second group.
Pavel is a Catholic believer. Together with his sister, they constantly went to divine services in the Molodechno church. The young man is very fond of music, he graduated from a music school in the piano class.
At the end of September 2022, Pavel was transferred to the republican hospital on «Volodarsky», where he will stay until the diagnosis for cancer patients. In this hospital, people are not in wards, but in ordinary cells adapted to medical needs.
Andrei was detained in February and was not released after administrative arrest. In April, it became known that he was released from the pre-trial detention center on bail. He was taken into custody on April 12, 2022.
06/23/2023 released after the expiration of the sentence.
Trial outcome:
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was found guilty of posting an offensive comment under a negative post about a senior investigator of the regional department of the Investigative Committee on the Odnoklassniki social network.
In July 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
18.06.2022
March 21, 2022 was registered as an extremist
Trial outcome:
1,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for creating the cultural and historical Telegram channel “Rezystans”.
"Rezystans" was recognized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs as an "extremist group" on March 29, 2022, after Nikita's 15-day administrative arrest, which he served in February under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials). The "Rezystans" Telegram channel has now been deleted.
12/13/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for participating in protests in 2020 and for registering as a volunteer in Ukraine. Programmer. Maxim was initially sentenced to 1.5 years in prison. After that, he independently wrote an appeal, where he described in detail everything that was illegal in his case and in court. After that, his sentence was increased to 2.5 years.
Trial outcome 09.11.2022
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the case materials , on August 10 and 11, 2020, Leonid “intentionally and unlawfully” collected and disseminated information intended for training and other preparation of persons to participate in mass riots, accompanied by violence against individuals, pogroms, arson, destruction of property and armed resistance to government officials .
The prosecution was confident that he disseminated the collected information through telegram chats so that residents of Novopolotsk and nearby settlements could become familiar with it.
Before the verdict, Shamov was in custody.
According to human rights activists,he will be releasedin the springof 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome:
2.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Activist of the «Belarusian People's Front» party.
Lyudmila has been charged because of a letter she sent in the investigative committee. In the letter, the woman spoke out against the war in Ukraine and the policy of A. Lukashenko.
On August 7, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
Yevgeny Minkevich, like Vladimir Avramtsev, graduated from the Olympic reserve school - he studied at the Shamyakin Moscow State Pedagogical University at the Faculty of Physical Education. He worked as an orderly in the Bobruisk ambulance, as well as a taxi driver in various services.
Trial outcome:
1.5 years in prison. On the basis of the Law of the Republic of Belarus “On amnesty in connection with the Day of National Unity”, Yevgeniy was partially released from punishment for a period of one year.
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