Ukrainian citizen Mikhail was detained on September 16, 2020 and spent seven months in the temporary detention facility on Okrestina. He was charged with participating in three marches and organizing protest activities through the Telegram channel "Brave People", including writing protest inscriptions and hanging white-red-white ribbons.
He was released on December 16, 2023, after serving his full sentence, but was immediately arrested again in Mogilev.
Released on February 1, 2024, Mikhail was forced to leave Belarus.
Trial outcome 20.09.2021: 3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, approximately 2611 rubles of compensation.
On the night of August 10-11, 2020, Alexandra was detained in Minsk. She went out to help people who had suffered from the actions of security forces, but was faced with shelling and mass detentions. Alexandra spent three days in the Okrestina detention center, where she was tortured, including beatings and threats of sexual violence. She was then released, but on October 16, 2020, she was arrested again as part of a criminal case, accused of participating in "group actions that grossly violate public order."
Trial outcome 07.04.2021: 3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 04.10.2021: approximately 1340 rubles of compensation.
Regime change trial 16.01.2023: the sentence was upheld.
An anesthesiologist working at the Emergency Hospital in Minsk was detained on November 19, 2020 and convicted for allegedly disclosing medical secrets regarding the condition of Raman Bondarenko, who was brutally beaten by security forces in the courtyard of his home and died in hospital from cerebral edema.
Trial outcome 02.03.2021: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (with a deferment 1 year), 50 basic values fine.
Appeal 20.04.2021: the sentence was upheld.
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