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On September 14, 2020, in the Brest 97% telegram chat, different users made reposts and also published the same text on their own behalf. These messages were about the commander of the OMON ATC of the Brestobly Executive Committee Maksim Mikhovich. The same text was posted by 16-year-old at that time Maria Roy.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral.
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According to pro-government channels, he was detained for creating the cultural and historical Telegram channel “Rezystans”.
"Rezystans" was recognized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs as an "extremist group" on March 29, 2022, after Nikita's 15-day administrative arrest, which he served in February under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials). The "Rezystans" Telegram channel has now been deleted.
12/13/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for participating in protests in 2020 and for registering as a volunteer in Ukraine.
Programmer. Maxim was initially sentenced to 1.5 years in prison. After that, he independently wrote an appeal, where he described in detail everything that was illegal in his case and in court. After that, his sentence was increased to 2.5 years.
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According to the case materials , on August 10 and 11, 2020, Leonid “intentionally and unlawfully” collected and disseminated information intended for training and other preparation of persons to participate in mass riots, accompanied by violence against individuals, pogroms, arson, destruction of property and armed resistance to government officials .
The prosecution was confident that he disseminated the collected information through telegram chats so that residents of Novopolotsk and nearby settlements could become familiar with it.
Before the verdict, Shamov was in custody.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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According to pro-government channels, he was detained for sending a video with Russian invaders to a telegram channel bot.
Alexander had his own business (Internet store). At home, Alexander was left waiting for his pregnant wife, daughter and son.
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Activist of the «Belarusian People's Front» party.
Lyudmila has been charged because of a letter she sent in the investigative committee. In the letter, the woman spoke out against the war in Ukraine and the policy of A. Lukashenko.
On August 7, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
3 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution
Convicted under two articles of the administrative code: 24.23 part 1 (50 b.v.) and 24.3 (50 b.v.).
According to the investigation, being in a public place - at the carriageway next to house No. 133 on Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk, in the presence of other persons, publicly insulted the President of the Republic of Belarus, showing an insulting gesture in his direction, which, on the basis of accepted in society rules is indecent.
Convicted for protest actions.
According to human rights activists , he was released on March 5, 2025.
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Dmitry Dashkevich is one of the most famous political figures in Belarus. He has been involved in public activities since 2001. He was the leader of the "Young Front" and served long prison terms several times for political activities in Belarus. Dashkevich is also one of the organizers of the "Night of Shot Poets" and "Defense of Kurapaty" campaigns.
After the 2020 elections, Dashkevich remained, perhaps, the only public opposition politician who remained in Belarus.
He was detained on March 23, 2022, sentenced to 15 days under an administrative article, during which time a criminal case was opened against Dmitry and after 15 days he was left in custody.
In July 2023, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Dmitry for “malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of the correctional institution” (Article 411 of the Criminal Code). On October 18, Judge Tatyana Derevyanko sentenced Dmitry to another year in a maximum-security penal colony.
In January 2024, the political prisoner was transferred again to IK No. 14. In the colony, he was placed in a punishment cell, where it is terribly cold. During the night, Dmitry has to get up to eight times to do exercises and somehow warm up. For this, they write reports about him not lying down after lights out.
At the end of May 2024, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Dmitry.
Dmitry was charged with "people's" article 342 of the Criminal Code (active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order), as well as part 1 of article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration) and was again sentenced to a new term.
On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries . Among those released is Dmitry Dashkevich.