Detained for participating in protests.
Detained for participating in protests in 2020. Maria has 2 daughters at home (5 and 10 years old).
Detained for participating in protests
Natalia Zhlobo works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literature of the Faculty of English at Moscow State Linguistic University.
The arrest took place at the end of March, and since then Natalya has been in jail. The exact reason for the detention, as well as the number of the criminal article, is still unknown, but we are talking about a political case .
According to human rights activists , the son of the politician Anatoly Lebedko is charged with financing extremist activities. Artyom was detained at the end of March and then twice sentenced to 15 days of arrest, after which he was charged and transferred to SIZO-1.
Dmitry Gudik was convicted under Art. 358-1 of the Criminal Code (undercover activities). He is a citizen of Ukraine. Together with him , Mikhail Stolyarchuk was involved in this criminal case. According to the prosecution, they have been collecting data on military equipment and facilities in Belarus on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine since 2018. Igor Dirko was also detained with them, but instead of being prosecuted, he was expelled from Belarus.
5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Mikhail Stolyarchuk was convicted under Art. 358-1 of the Criminal Code (undercover activities). He is a citizen of Ukraine. Together with him, Dmitry Gudik was involved in the case. According to the prosecution, they have been collecting data on military equipment and facilities in Belarus on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine since 2018. Igor Dirko was also detained with them, but instead of being prosecuted, he was expelled from Belarus.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Minor Artem Voitekhovich is the brother of the administrator of the channel "Live. The Community of Railway Workers of Belarus". He was taken into custody under Part 2 of Art. 208 of the Criminal Code (Extortion). The brother receives demands to stop activities as a condition for Artyom's release.
The lawyer was detained at the end of January and is in SIZO-1 on Volodarsky Street. After the detention, the profile of the lawyer was removed from the website of the Republican Bar Association. Later it became known that on April 21, 2023 he was deprived of his license.
Famous Belarusian poet and musician. Former frontman of the band Hurma, as well as the author of a number of songs for various artists. In 2015, he won the Golden Apostrophe award in the Debut nomination for the best publication of poems in the Dzeyasloў magazine. Detained in March 2023 for participating in protests in 2020.
A Polish citizen was convicted for "undercover activity" in the Republic of Belarus. In April 2023, Jerzy turned 58 years old. He himself comes from a border village near Bialystok, and has been living in Belarus since the 90s - he moved to Grodno after his marriage. Until the verdict, relatives were sure that this was a mistake and Jerzy would be released. Relatives of the accused still cannot understand why he attracted the attention of the security forces.
4 years in prison .
Design engineer.
The man was accused of swearing after drinking alcoholic beverages with a friend near the store after being detained by the Smorgon police department, including at Lukashenko for the fact that Belarus did not recognize the independence of Abkhazia.
Yuri has been tried three times and repeatedly brought to administrative responsibility.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
On the TV channel ONT showed a video with Victoria, where the girl confesses to a misdemeanor and a mistake. A criminal case was opened against her and she was placed in custody. In the ONT plot, she is accused of non-payment of taxes, subscribing to extremist channels, draining the data of security forces, participating in the «Peramoga» plan, financing extremist activities.
Together with Victoria, her husband Dmitry was detained, who served 30 days of administrative arrest and was released.
Dmitry is the director of the Gomel Motor Repair Plant, the vocalist of the ethno-group «Ban-Graviiba», and Victoria is an entrepreneur. They are also famous dancers.
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