On March 1, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 17.01.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 01.03.2024
unknown.
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According to the indictment, in March 2021, Evgeny allegedly "transferred 29.35 euros to a bank account used by BYPOL representatives via the internet and PayPal to support extremist activities."
Trial outcome 06.12.2023
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In 2016, Nadezhda graduated from the Minsk State Linguistic University with a degree in foreign language teaching. She worked as a translator for over a year and then moved to IT, where she worked in testing. In November 2023, Nadezhda was detained.
Trial outcome 02.08.2024
5 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 24.09.2024
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Detained for donations. Was awarded in the category “Best Graduate of BSU” 2018. After her arrest, Ksenia was kept in the KGB pre-trial detention center for several months, after which she was transferred to pre-trial detention center-1, and then to pre-trial detention center-3.
On June 4, 2024, Ksenia’s appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Georgy Cherevako was detained in August while returning from the United States. He was convicted for a donation of $21.29, which he sent from his PayPal account in support of the Kalinowski Regiment. A Belarusian card was linked to the account, from which the funds were debited. The authorities considered these to be deliberate actions “for the purpose of financing activities for the recruitment, training, and other preparation” of persons for armed conflict in Ukraine.
At the trial, he said that he voluntarily told the officers who detained him that he was subscribed to numerous “extremist” telegram channels, and admitted that he had made a transfer to the account of Polk Kalinovsky.
He himself gave the employees passwords to enter the payment system. He said that he made a donation because he hoped that these funds would be used to purchase helmets, body armor, and medicines, but he understood that they would use them according to their own understanding and, among other things, buy weapons and ammunition with them.
Trial outcome 08.12.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
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According to the prosecution , Alexander Goncharov transferred funds through a bank transfer to finance the activities of the “Kastus Kalinovsky Regiment.”
Trial outcome 01.12.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
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Detained along with his son for donations. According to officials, the man was convicted of making more than 100 money transfers totaling $1,885. Transfers were made from August 7, 2020 to March 24, 2021.
This was considered “financing the activities of an extremist formation” (although, most likely, at that time the initiatives were not any “extremist formations”).
On 02/02/2024 the appeal hearing was held, the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 20.11.2023:
5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Detained for donations. There is a child under 1 year of age.
On February 6, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 07.12.2023:
5 years imprisonment in a maximum security colony
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
He was detained in early May 2023, when he came to deliver a parcel to his brother Maksim Lopatin, who was detained in the Machulishchi case. Before that, the man lived in Lithuania. He was detained in the same case of sabotage in Machulishchi and charged under Article 289 of the Criminal Code. Later, the article was reclassified to 361-2 of the Criminal Code (financing of extremist activity).
At the trial, Andrei did not admit guilt.
On July 5, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 19.04.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 05.07.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
A pharmacist by education, Dmitry is accused under six articles of the criminal code.
According to the state prosecution , from August 2020 to February 2023, the man transferred 68 euros to the accounts of the Belsat information resource, as well as 68 euros and 78 dollars to the accounts of the Bysol Solidarity Fund. In addition, for more than a year he transferred money from a media resource - "whose materials are recognized as extremist", as well as 33 euros to the accounts of the Kastus Kalinouski Regiment.
The defendant made photocopies of departmental documents that were sent to the pharmacy and sent them to Telegram channels, which Lukashenko's servants call "extremist groups." During the first court hearing, it became known that the documents included information about the verification of military registration cards of those liable for military service, about the disappearance of some Ukrainian-made medicines from the Belarusian market, an appeal from the Belarusian Union of Women in connection with the situation at the border, and a decision by the Ministry of Health. In addition, the man recorded a video from the pharmacy's outdoor surveillance cameras showing the movement of Russian military equipment and also sent it to Telegram channels.
On 28.11.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 04.09.2023:
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Former lecturer at the Department of Communications at BSUIR. This department is designed to train career officers for the Armed Forces and other security agencies and departments of the Republic of Belarus. Nikolai was initially sentenced to administrative arrest, and then re-arrested as part of a criminal case. He was convicted for three donations that the man made in August 2020.
From the moment he was transferred to the colony, Mikhail served 180 days in a punishment cell, then was placed in a PKT.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Nikolai is accused of "financing terrorist activity", under which article he faces 8 to 12 years in prison.
The man's last known place of employment was the Republican Olympic Training Center for Track and Field.
On June 6, 2023, he was sentenced under Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code to 6 years in a maximum security penal colony and a large fine. Other details of the case are unknown.
On September 1, 2023, Judge V. Cherevach was to consider the appeal of the political prisoner in the Supreme Court. At the moment, the first sentence has entered into force, so when the second was issued, Vasilevich was already considered to have a previous conviction.
On September 12, 2023, another trial of Nikolai took place in the Pervomaisky District Court. This time, he was accused of "financing terrorist activity." In total, Svetlana Cherepovich sentenced him to 9 years and 6 months in a maximum security penal colony for his donations, as well as a fine of 600 basic units. The pro-government film states that he made at least 54 donations to solidarity funds.
On November 14, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 12.09.2023:
9.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The Belarusian state TV channel reported that Alexander transferred about 800 US dollars to BYPOL in May 2021. It is worth noting that BYPOL was recognized as an extremist organization in November 2021, meaning that at the time of the transfer, the initiative was not extremist.
According to witnesses, Alexander was indeed offered compensation for the damage through a fund associated with the president. He agreed to such compensation in exchange for his release, but things did not go according to plan. Alexander was refused, and his money (about 30 bitcoins) was confiscated. The BYPOL organization was recognized as a "terrorist formation", and a new criminal case was opened against Alexander under the article "Financing terrorist activity".
On March 15, 2024, in the Minsk City Court, Judge Elena Shilkо issued a new sentence – 9 years of imprisonment. The waves of pardons that swept across the country did not affect the political prisoner.
Trial outcome 31.10.2022
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.01.2023
unknown.
Trial outcome 15.03.2024
9 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 17.05.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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