In the pro-government film (April 2024), it was said that six teenagers allegedly united in the “anarchist cell “Black Nightingales,” which “under the leadership of the National Liberation Army of Ukraine” was created by 16-year-old Ukrainian citizen Maria Misyuk.
ONT employees claim that the teenagers united to carry out sabotage on a tip in Belarus, and then in Russia. Maria is accused under Part 2 of Art. 289 of the Criminal Code (act of terrorism). According to the story, 16-year-old Maria Misyuk moved with her family from Ukraine to Belarus in 2022, where she created an “anarchist cell for preparing terrorist attacks.” As reported in the film, Misyuk communicated with the “curator” online. According to ONT employees, curator “Marichka” sent Misyuk “instructions for making an explosive device, a Molotov cocktail, and literature with anarchist and destructive content.”
It is unknown when Daria was detained , but probably in the fall of 2023. She is accused of two articles - Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code and Part 2 of Art. 361-3.
The first article is organizing or participating in actions that grossly violate public order. The second is recruitment, training, other preparation or use of Belarusians to participate in a war on the territory of another state, as well as financing or other material support for such activities. It is usually given to those who helped Ukraine in some way.
It is known that after graduating from the philological department of BSU, Daria went to work at gymnasium No. 23 in Minsk, where she herself studied. She also entered the master's program at the Faculty of Philology of BSU.
As stated in the resolution, she was a language consultant for the Belsat television channel, which is recognized as an “extremist formation” in Belarus. According to the verdict, from June 19, 2021 to November 15, 2023, Anastasia Matyash was a language consultant for the Polish television "TVP", which includes the Polish television channel "BELSAT tv BELSAT". During her work, she allegedly conducted language consultations, translated, corrected and edited texts, which were then used on BELSAT. The resolution also states that for participation in “extremist activities” Anastasia Matyash allegedly received “criminal” income, 40,000 Polish zlotys, 12,258 dollars and 8,575 euros.
Anastasia Matyash did not admit her guilt.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
She was 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.
The trial of the second group of Baranavichy residents (9 people) began on March 28, 2024. Elena was one of 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.
The trial of the second group of Baranavichy residents (9 people) began on March 28, 2024. Olga was one of 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.
Yulia is accused of financing extremist activities as a result of large-scale arrests during the persecution by the authorities for supporting political prisoners and their families with the social food assistance project INeedHelpBy.
Yulia is the sister of Nikolai Korobko’s wife, mother of Pavel Kravtsov .
Alena is accused of financing extremist activities as a result of large-scale arrests during the persecution by the authorities for supporting political prisoners and their families with the social food assistance project INeedHelpBy.
Mother of former political prisoner Marina Glazova.
Alesya Sergeenko has been in a pre-trial detention center since the end of January as part of a criminal case (presumably she is charged with “promoting extremism”). She was 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.
It is also known that on February 21, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Mogilev considered the case under Decree No. 7 “On foreign gratuitous assistance” against Alesya. “Decree No. 7” is used in Belarus to judge those people against whom a mass raid was carried out at the end of January 2024. Then the KGB officers tried to find out who received food aid from abroad as part of the activities of the INeedHelp organization, recognized as a so-called “extremist formation.”
Alesya Sergeenko has two children - 3 and 16 years old. Her husband, Maxim Sergeenko, is a political prisoner who in April 2021 received a sentence of 3 years in prison from the Kruglyansky District Court.
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