According to pro-government telegram channels, he was detained "for promoting extremist activities."
A resident of Zhlobin, born in Bobruisk. He was tried for a video of planes in Zhlobin. At the trial, he said that "he was scared and thought that a war had started here too." The case was heard by judge Oleg Khoroshko.
According to human rights activists , he was released on October 22, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Valentin Fedorenko sent 160 text messages from a push-button phone to the Polish number of the Belsat TV channel. For this, he was accused of facilitating extremist activities. Valentin, who suffers from a mental illness, faced up to six years in prison. According to the source of Radio Svaboda, Valentin suffers from an incurable mental illness. The diagnosis was made back in the 1980s. After that, the pensioner did not go to the doctors. At the trial, the examination confirmed that the disease is incurable and only remission can occur. Fedorenko was sent for a new forensic examination.
In the messages, the man wrote about the movement of Russian military equipment in Gomel and the takeoffs of Russian aircraft from the airfields of the Gomel region. At the court hearing, Valentin admitted his guilt and repented. He stated that he did not know that the Belsat TV channel was an extremist formation.
He was detained for driving a car near Pinsk and looking at the location of military units. According to the investigation, Anton sent this data to a Belarusian Telegram channel and to someone in Ukraine.
Anton was tried for leaking state secrets. The trial was held behind closed doors, so the details of how the hearing went are unknown.
In November 2024, he was released after serving his sentence.
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A teacher of chemistry and biology at the secondary school in Molozhin. According to investigators, he collected information about the existing shortcomings in the work of trade and service facilities, and also carried out photo and video recording of the movement of military equipment in the Gomel region, which he passed on to "extremist" channels.
He was detained for taking photographs of military equipment with a mobile phone camera, filming the movements of military vehicles and subsequently passing this information on to the administrators of “extremist” Telegram channels.
04/21/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Dmitry was accused of sending photos and videos of military equipment with comments to the «Nexta» chat-bot in a telegram.
On February 12, 2022, he sent a video showing an unmarked plane flying at night, and he made a similar video on February 27. On March 3, Dmitry took off a tanker truck with the identification mark «V». On March 17, he sent a photo and video where something was allegedly launched from Baranovichi towards Ukraine.
None of these materials, as well as textual information, have been published in the «Nexta» channels.
The young man was accused of taking military equipment on his phone on February 27, March 1 and March 2, 2022 and transmitting these photos to the telegram channel.
He was detained before he reached the age of majority.
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Alexander, a student at the Belarusian State Aviation Academy, was arrested on June 6, 2022 and convicted of, according to investigators, "systematically providing information to the Nexta Telegram channel."
He was released in September 2024 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The young man was charged with the fact that on February 27, 2022, he sent a video of a military aircraft to the telegram bot. Since this video was posted on the telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus, these actions were qualified under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Support of extremist activity).
Konstantin was taken into custody in the courtroom.
Released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained for sending information about the movement of Russian troops to the Belarusian Gayun telegram channel in early June 2022.
Olga lives in the working settlement of Rechitsa, Stolin District (7 km from the Belarusian-Ukrainian border). On March 21, 2022, she took the child to kindergarten. On the way, I saw military equipment with identifying red squares, took a photo and video and sent them to the telegram bot of the Belarusian Gayun project. Soon the woman was detained, and a "repentance video" was recorded with her.
4 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
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Activist from Mozyr. He was accused of making a publication on the Belarusski Gayun telegram channel about the movement of Russian troops in the city of Mozyr and was taken into custody.
Pavel Nozdrya is known for being the representative of the Green Watch initiative in Mozyr. He organized a number of environmental actions and initiatives in the city, in which representatives of government agencies also participated. Pavel Nozdrya is also one of the co-founders of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party.
01/26/2026 released after expiration of sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
During the arrest, Alexander’s phone was taken away and after they looked through it, they drew up a report on art. 19.11 Code of Administrative Offences, and later sentenced to administrative arrest.
But after “24 hours” Alexander was not released. The reason for opening a criminal case was the transfer of photos of Russian military equipment to the telegram channel “Belarusian Gayun”.
On April 15, Lucinovich was placed in Gomel pre-trial detention center-3 and charged.
Released on January 13, 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.