The trial of the second group of Baranavichy residents (9 people) began on March 28, 2024. Edward was among them. The verdict was handed down on April 11.
According to the prosecution , in August 2020, the convicts “shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, and obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony.
The trial of the second group of Baranavichy residents (9 people) began on March 28, 2024. Dmitry was among them. The verdict was handed down on April 11.
According to the prosecution , in August 2020, the convicts “shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, and obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
1 year imprisonment in a colony.
Trial outcome 26.03.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 11.06.2024: the sentence was upheld.
The man was drinking with his wife around midnight in the hostel. She called an ambulance and reported an alleged stab wound. The police also arrived and asked him to go to the police department. Then, in front of four police officers from the detention group and his wife, he insulted Alexander Lukashenko. He allegedly did this “with the aim of causing damage to his authority.” The insult was captured by the registrar.
1 year imprisonment in a correctional colony under general regime conditions
Yuri will also be forcibly treated for chronic alcoholism.
The resolution states that while at home in the village of Luzhesno, Melnikov reposted a picture of Lukashenko and negative statements about him on Odnoklassniki. Thus, he “publicly, in an indecent form, insulted the president.”
The man fully admitted his guilt in court. The defendant’s wife confirmed in court that the page with the repost belonged to her husband.
1 year 1 month of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Sergei was accused of writing several messages in the Telegram messenger. The hearing took place in the building of the Berezovsky Cooperative Industrial Plant. After the trial, prosecutor Alexander Krutko gave the workers a lecture "and reminded them of their responsibility for extremist crimes."
Sergey is 58 years old, he is originally from Ivanovo and lives in Bereza.
He was under house arrest before the trial.
Human rights activists learned that he began serving his sentence in an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 26.03.2024: 3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Natalia Davydulina is 47 years old and is from Zhlobin. It is known from Natalia's social networks that she and her husband have a large family - five children, one of whom is still in elementary school.
One of Natalia's sons, Denis Davydulin, is a former political prisoner. He was detained in March 2021 and sentenced to a year and a half in prison for "going out onto the roadway and actively disobeying police officers" on the night of August 10.
She has never given media interviews. Court schedules show that she was tried on January 24, 2024, for “dissemination of extremist materials.” She was likely detained during a raid on those in solidarity with political prisoners.
The trial will begin on August 23 in the Gomel Regional Court. Thus, most likely, Natalia is accused of some kind of assistance to other prisoners. It is known that during the January raid, mainly those who helped others were left behind bars - they made transfers and parcels to pretrial detention centers and colonies, even for very small amounts.
Alenais accused of financing extremist activity as a result of large-scale arrests during the persecution by the authorities for supporting political prisoners and their families with the social food aid project INeedHelpBy.
Mother of former political prisoner Marina Glazova.
On August 27, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Detained for solidarity with political prisoners.
Ekaterina Mendrik is 26 years old. According to information on social networks, she was born in Lida, but moved to Grodno as a child. Ekaterina studied at the University of Warsaw and lived in Poland for a long time.
According to the court schedule, before her arrest in the criminal case, Ekaterina was convicted at least twice under political administrative protocols after crossing the border. It is unknown whether she lived abroad.
Mendrik was detained after the January raid on supporters of political prisoners, as she sent parcels and made transfers to political prisoners in pretrial detention. According to human rights activists, the detention occurred a little later, as the girl was abroad at the time of the raid - she was detained upon her return to Belarus.
Trial outcome 16.09.2024: 3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
A special forces detachment burst into Alexey’s home, they knocked the man to the floor and one security officer sat with his knees on Samoiluk’s body (with one knee on Samoiluk’s neck).
The pro-government channel claims that Samoiluk “threw stones at the police during the riots.” In that publication on the same channel they also posted photographs: in one picture there are two people in hoods and masks, one holding a Ukrainian flag, the second a sheet of paper with the text “Brest residents with Ukraine.”
2 years imprisonment
Vladimi reposted several publications on Odnoklassniki allegedly insulting Alexander Lukashenko, “acting with the aim of discrediting and causing damage to the authority of state power.” These were a video from the public “Belarus Political”, text and photos from the public “STOP LUKA”. He did not block access to the page.
He was released from custody in the courtroom.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
From 2002 to 2005, he was the medical director of Globalpharma. He subsequently moved to Sanofi-Aventis (now simply Sanofi) as a director. As of 2022, the man was the head of the Genzyme department, which specializes in rare blood diseases, oncology, multiple sclerosis, and immunology. In 2023, Sergey moved to Novomedika. This is a large company that is engaged in the wholesale trade of pharmaceutical products and also has its own clinic in Minsk.
Was arrested for donations.
Sergei has a 10-year-old son.
On July 5, 2024, an appeal was held on the case and the verdict came into force.
8.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Alexander's name appeared in the court schedule. The man is accused of donating to help Ukraine and to an “extremist group.”
It is noteworthy that the man made a donation in support of the “extremist formation” before May 2021, when there were no extremist formations in Belarus at all. Now the man faces from five to ten years in prison. The trial will begin on March 19 in the Minsk City Court.
Alexander has a small business in Molodechno: as an individual entrepreneur he is engaged in cargo transportation on his own bus. He is raising two children: a young daughter who is finishing sixth grade, and a son who should now be in high school.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
Pro-government channels claim that he was detained by accident - because of a phone case with the inscription “pray for Belarus” in English and an image of national symbols. After his arrest, they allegedly found videos from protests on Dmitry’s phone, as well as photos from a yard chat, where he offers people mock-ups of protest stickers.
It is known that the guy has been swimming for a long time and has the rank of candidate master of sports.
Marina Leonovich is 28 years old. She graduated from BSUIR and after university worked at EPAM as a front-end developer. After the start of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, the girl moved to Georgia, to Tbilisi.
Leonovich's arrest became known in October 2023. It is unknown why the girl decided to return to Belarus.
Marina is accused of financing “extremist activity” (parts 1 and 2 of Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code) and “participation in the material support of activities to use citizens of Belarus to participate in armed conflicts on the territory of a foreign state” (part 2 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code). Usually, people are tried under such articles for donations, for example, to Kalinovsky’s regiment. The girl faces five to ten years in prison, writes Nasha Niva.
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