On June 9, it became known that prisoner Artem Anishchuk was subjected to physical and psychological abuse by the colony administration from the moment he arrived at the penal colony. The torture is related to the fact that the head of the colony is a friend of Alexander Geyts, the victim in the case for which the prisoner was tried. This is not the first case of ill-treatment in IK-15. Earlier, another prisoner reported that he was beaten by Lazarenko. Another prisoner reported that the colony could send a person to a punishment cell for statistics.
On June 9, it became known that prisoner Artem Anishchuk was subjected to physical and psychological abuse by the colony administration from the moment he arrived at the penal colony. The torture is related to the fact that the head of the colony is a friend of Alexander Geyts, the victim in the case for which the prisoner was tried. This is not the first case of ill-treatment in IK-15. Earlier, another prisoner reported that he was beaten by Lazarenko. Another prisoner reported that the colony could send a person to a punishment cell for statistics.
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 channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, he was detained for registration in the «Peramoga» plan, as well as for comments in social networks.
According to the prosecutor's office, from December 29 to April 30, 2021, Pavel published deliberately false information about the work of the Belarusian police and authorities on Wikipedia and on the website of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR).
Released in the summer of 2023 after the expiration of the sentence.
The Homel resident's fault was only in one episode: on March 9, he was driving his car along Lenin Avenue, noticed a Russian military KAMAZ, took a picture of it on an iPhone and sent the picture to an information Telegram channel recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus.
To detain him, the police staged a whole special operation. Andrey was harshly pressured during interrogations.
On December 27, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 01.08.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the position of the state prosecution, Sanyuta, a resident of Baranovichi, incited hostility against law enforcement officers, namely: on August 12, 2020, he posted one message in the telegram chat «Baranovichi 97%». In this message, calls for violence against the security forces were seen in two places: «Look for law enforcement officers who come to mass events in civilian clothes and beat them with a crowd», «Lure a special purpose militia unit into ambushes».
Andrey was detained on March 2, 2022 for a video involving a military man. A video with Andrei's confession appeared in the telegram channels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The man was found guilty of violence or threat of violence against the soldier Mikhail Krut for the fact that during one anti-war rally on February 27, 2022 in Minsk, Andrei simply walked at him while he was retreating. The video spread through Internet sources.
During the interrogation, Andrei was tortured, as he told the court. The man did not admit his guilt.
The man did not admit his guilt.
09.26.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
Trial outcome 30.08.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
First, Yevgeny was detained on an administrative case, sentenced to 5 days of arrest, then under a new protocol for 15 days of arrest and even later for 13 days of arrest. After that, he was detained on a criminal case.
According to the accusation, Yevgeny spread obviously false data and slander on the Internet against the head of the traffic police, the leaders of the Gomel special purpose police unit and an employee of the Gomel Technical University named after P. V. Sukhoi — there were six victims in the case. The distribution consisted in the fact that Galich sent two other people's articles in a personal message, adding on his own: «We can repeat it».
In court, this was considered a call for mass actions.
At the beginning of January 2024, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 10.08.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to official information , in 2020, a man posted a screenshot on social networks that showed a frame from the protests in August 2020 on Sovetskaya Street in Gomel. He accompanied the post with a text in which he called the security forces “subhumans” and expressed the hope that they “will be held accountable for crimes against their people.”
In the fall of 2021, the man was facing an administrative case “for distributing information products containing calls for extremist activity.”
On November 28, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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