Detained for reposting from social networks and participating in protests in 2020.
According to Asker's social networks, he lived in Minsk, played sports, and acted in videos. The last time he visited his VKontakte page was in July. His case will be heard behind closed doors in the Minsk City Court on October 4. Asker is charged under Part 1 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code (Participation in an armed formation or armed conflict, military action, recruitment or preparation of persons for such participation on the territory of a foreign state).
Trial outcome 08.10.2024: compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
The woman is probably accused of solidarity with political prisoners. The exact date of the woman's arrest is unknown.
The trial of Elena Tikhonovna began on October 3 in the Minsk City Court. The case is being heard by Judge Sergei Katser.
It is known that the woman was detained in May 2021. Then Judge Tatyana Motyl fined Elena 50 basic units for "unauthorized picketing."
Trial outcome 01.10.2024: 3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The essence of the charges brought against Yevgeny Stepanov, who is now accused of "creating or participating in the activities of an extremist group," is unknown. According to unreliable information, he was detained in January of this year for "distributing extremist materials on the Internet" and sentenced to arrest under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, from which he has not been released.
Evgeniy Stepanov has serious health problems: in 2020, he suffered a stroke, after which he had difficulty speaking. Because of this, Evgeniy Stepanov lost the opportunity to work in his profession - he graduated from the University of Culture and Arts with a degree in directing, conducted weddings, concerts, and other festive and entertainment events.
Yevgeny Stepanov disappeared from social networks at the end of 2022, but due to the difficulty of communicating with him, this went unnoticed. The attention of the security forces was attracted by his appeals to government agencies, written in late February-early March 2022. He demanded to help stop Russian military aggression on the territory of Ukraine - to announce the formation of an anti-war movement and support any forms of anti-war protests; demand the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Belarus, to consider as war criminals all those who made the decision on military action in Ukraine and who sanctioned aggressive propaganda justifying the war in the state Belarusian media.
Yevgeny Stepanov sent his demands to end the war in Ukraine to both local authorities and high-ranking government officials – the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, the head of the country's armed forces, and the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 19.09.2024: unknown.
Trial outcome 20.12.2022: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 03.10.2024: 3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the prosecutor's office , Artem decided to deposit money through an information kiosk in June of this year, but he was unable to carry out the planned operation. Therefore, upon returning home, he "called an employee of the contact center of JSC ASB Belarusbank and during the conversation made negative comments about the President of the Republic of Belarus."
The investigative and prosecutorial authorities qualified this as a "public insult" since "it was inflicted in the presence of an outsider - an employee of the contact center of JSC ASB Belarusbank, who subsequently conveyed this information to other persons (management)." In essence, the bank employee herself "revealed" the contents of a private conversation.
The investigation also decided that Artem’s statements were “humiliating, undermining the authority of the Head of State, his personal and professional qualities, as well as the authority of state power as a whole.”
Trial outcome 19.09.2024: 1 year 3 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 15.11.2024: unknown.
Detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.
Trial outcome 03.06.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 20.08.2024: the sentence was upheld.
The couple (Vyacheslav Berezovets and Tatyana Danilyuk) were placed in custody for taking part in protests in Kobrin on August 10, 2020, where the woman "made obscene gestures to the police," and her husband "pulled down his pants and showed his bare buttocks."
At the same time, Vyacheslav has already been convicted for the episode with "showing his buttocks" to the police. The trial took place back in 2020, when the man was charged with an administrative article for this.
The couple left behind three young children.
The couple (Vyacheslav Berezovets and Tatyana Danilyuk) were placed in custody for taking part in protests in Kobrin on August 10, 2020, where the woman "made obscene gestures to the police," and her husband "pulled down his pants and showed his bare buttocks."
The Investigative Committee notes that the couple still has three young children at large.
She was detained for helping political prisoners on January 23, 2024, after which Elena was released, but was detained again in April of the same year and placed in a pre-trial detention center.
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