Detained for participating in 2020 protests.
A native of Ukraine, but has citizenship of the Republic of Belarus. On May 16, 2023, she was convicted for participating in protests.
1.5 years in prison
He was allegedly detained for a video sent to an "extremist" Telegram channel.
In early October 2022, in the Moskovsky district of the capital, on a power line pole, unidentified people hung a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine. During the operational-search activities, police officers detained six Minsk residents aged 34 to 36 who allegedly did this. Including Igor.
The circumstances of the case, except for the verdict, are still unknown to human rights activists.
The accused Eremenko was found guilty of deliberate actions aimed at inciting ethnic and other social hatred on the basis of national and other social affiliation. He was also found guilty of knowingly putting another person at risk of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
5 years of imprisonment in a colony under a strict regime.
According to the USC for the Mogilev region, Ruslan forwarded the video to the VKontakte public DVIZh, which was recognized by the Belarusian authorities as “extremist”. It is worth noting that the video itself lasts only 12 seconds and nothing actually happens in it - the train with military equipment just stands at the station.
After a while, the man was detained by the KGB. He was charged under part 1 of article 361-4 (assistance to extremist activity) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. The man faces up to 6 years in prison.
According to a friend of the detainee, the police came for Zhanna directly to school No. 63, where the woman came to meet her child's teacher on May 11. Now Zhanna Volkova is in the Gomel pre-trial detention center. She is charged with political article 130 of the Criminal Code (“incitement of hatred”).
According to media reports, during the 2020 protests, police detained Volkova on administrative charges.
Transgender man. When writing a letter, please note: indicate Oleg's passport data (Olga Alekseevna Zayats) on the envelope. He worked as a craftsman, made bracelets and other souvenirs that could be purchased in the shop of St. Elisabeth Monastery. Has a stomach disease, as well as problems with the musculoskeletal system (amputated toes).
Detained on March 29, 2023, allegedly for participating in protests. The apartment was searched by the KGB officers. Oleg first spent several weeks in the KGB pre-trial detention center, then for an examination at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health, and now he has been transferred to pre-trial detention center-1 (SIZO-1).
Earlier, Oleg was repeatedly detained on political charges. In all cases, as a sign of protest, Oleg announced and held a dry hunger strike.
Detained with her parents allegedly for participating in the 2020 protests.
Detained with her mother for participating in the 2020 protests.
Tatyana is 52 years old. She worked as a producer of the information broadcasting directorate of STV. Detained together with her daughter for participating in the 2020 protests.
Researcher at the Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus, trade union activist. According to the indictment , Kondratyuk left negative comments on social networks that discredited the authorities and insulted Alexander Lukashenko.
The activist was detained along with several employees of the Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus on September 5, 2022. He received 13 days of administrative arrest, but was never released again.
3.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under the general regime.
The reason for the criminal case was the comments in the chat “Grodno 97”.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
Zlata is 20 years old. CMS in biathlon and cycling. Detained for participating in protests in 2020 (then she was 17 years old), she happened to be at the scene of the action when she was returning from training.
The first time she was detained in a criminal case in August 2021, but then the case was suspended and Anna was a witness in it. In February 2023, Anna was again called in for questioning and detained for participating in protests in 2020.
Anna is 25 years old, she is a procedural nurse in a polyclinic in Minsk.
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