The journalist and consultant for Radio Liberty, as well as the administrator of the telegram channel “Belarus of the Brain,” was detained on June 25, 2020 and convicted of “organizing mass riots.”
15 years of imprisonment under enhanced security conditions
Member of Viktor Babariko’s initiative group, independent observer of the 2020 elections and volunteer. Victor was accused of placing effigies with photographs of officials on the bridge, as well as painting images with the national emblem "Pahonia".
4 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
The wife of the convicted blogger Igor Losik.
Cjnhelybrb law enforcement agencies came home to the Losik's at 8 a.m. Daria herself and her two year old daughter Polina were sleeping.
According to the telegram channels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Daria is accused of facilitating extremist activities in the form of a conversation with the Belsat TV channel in the spring of 2022, despite the fact that the TV channel was recognized as an extremist formation in November 2021. Such an interview, according to the authors of the post, may entail criminal liability under Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code on facilitating extremist activity.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
unknown years of restriction of freedom.
Detained along with other young people in Baranavichy (late December 2023).
Roman Protasevich is a Belarusian blogger and journalist.
In the summer of 2020, during mass protests against the falsification of the presidential elections, he was the editor-in-chief of the NEXTA telegram channel. After leaving NEXTA, he became the editor-in-chief of the Belarus Brain telegram channel, which was previously administered by political prisoner Igor Losik . Both channels were recognized as extremist by the Belarusian authorities.
On May 23, 2021, as a result of the forced landing by the Belarusian authorities of a Ryanair passenger airliner flying on the Athens-Vilnius route, Roman Protasevich was detained at the National Airport of Minsk by representatives of the special services. It is known that Sofia Sapieha, a student at the European Humanities University, was arbitrarily detained with him.
On May 3, 2023, the verdict was announced to the novel, until the verdict came into force, Roman was left under house arrest.
On May 22, 2023, he was pardoned.
8 years of imprisonment in a colony.
Orthodox priest, cleric of the parish of the Church of the Epiphany in Minsk. During the arrest, GUBOPiK broke down the doors in Vladislav's apartment. Pro-government telegram channels report that the priest was subscribed to "extremist" telegram channels and forwarded information from them to his mother. According to the security forces, Bogomolnikov "has a chance to become a suspect for facilitating extremist activities in a number of criminal cases.
Vladislav Bogomolnikov served on the square of changes for the murdered Roman Bondarenko; he also went on a hunger strike in support of political prisoner Ihor Losik.
On December 19, 10 days in custody expired, which priest Vladislav Bogomolnikov spent as a suspect in a criminal case under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, he was released on bail, but is still a defendant in a criminal case. Before that, he spent 100 days in Akrestsina, serving seven arrests in a row on administrative charges.
On October 28, 2022, he was convicted for the fifth time under an administrative article for 15 days. In total, on this date, he spent 59 days behind bars.
On November 5, 2022, he was sentenced to a day for the seventh time. In total, Vladislav spent 100 days on the day, after which a criminal case was opened against him for participating in protests.
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