social and political figure, architect, manager, executive secretary of the Coordination Council of the Belarusian Opposition, member of the organizing committee of the Razam party and the headquarters of presidential candidate in the 2020 presidential elections in Belarus Viktor Babariko .
The start date of special proceedings is 03/15/2024.
54-year-old Sergei is accused of facilitating extremist activities. He is invited to return to Belarus and come to the department of the Investigative Committee for the Grodno region.
The Investigative Committee began the process of special proceedings against the ex-director of the Grodno children's hospice Olga Velichko. “Special proceedings are proceedings in a criminal case against an accused who is outside the Republic of Belarus and is avoiding appearing before the body conducting the criminal proceedings.” That is, special proceedings are actually the first step towards trials in absentia of those who are abroad, recently legalized in Belarus. In July 2022, Alexander Lukashenko signed a law on amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, which allow Belarusians who are abroad to be tried in absentia and even sentenced to death.
She is an active lawyer at the Minsk City Bar Association, and has represented the interests of citizens in court in many politically motivated cases. In particular, she was a party to the defense of her son, political prisoner Parkhimichka Viktor Viktorovich (at the moment he has fully served his sentence and has left the Republic of Belarus). Galina has been an active member of the Belarusian Popular Front party since 1994. On April 1, 2017, she participated as an expert in the talk show “Each of Us” on the Belsat channel, which is recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus.
On February 28, 2024, Galina was detained and her apartment was searched. She was charged with participating in protests because KGB officers managed to recover deleted photographs from a peaceful protest march on July 16, 2020. In addition, KGB officers accused her of providing financial assistance through Facebook to persons who suffered from repression by the security forces of the Republic of Belarus.
Galina was released on bail, after which she left the Republic of Belarus.
| 15.03.2024 | Галина Сергеевна защищала таких политзаключенных как: Андрей Царёнок ,Татьяна Козак , Артём Боярский , Борушко Ольга, Зуев Евгений, Мазгар Елена. |
Resident of Postavy and owner of the training hall "ReZhim".
It is known that in 2021, Vitaly’s house was searched; it was carried out in connection with a criminal case for insulting the delegates of the Supreme Council from the Postavy district. The insult allegedly took place on one of the social networks.
In 2024, the Investigative Committee began “special proceedings” against Vitaly. The special jurisdiction mechanism allows the Belarusian authorities to try defendants in absentia if they remain abroad.
Lawyer of Maria Kolesnikova.
He was detained on September 9, 2020, Ilya Salei’s apartment was searched, and he himself was taken for questioning to the Investigative Committee.
The Investigative Committee stated that Ilya Salei is suspected of a criminal offense under Part 3 of Art. 361 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On September 11 he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-1 in Minsk. On October 16, the preventive measure against Ilya Salei was changed to house arrest. On April 16, 2021, Ilya Saleya’s preventive measure was changed from house arrest to bail. Salei remained in the status of an accused and was obliged to appear when summoned by investigative authorities and the court. Was forced to leave the Republic of Belarus.
Representative of the association of former security forces BYPOL.
12 years imprisonment in absentia
On October 11, 2023, she was detained for 10 days under an administrative charge, after which a criminal case was opened for participation in the 2020 protests. She was released on her own recognizance. She was forced to leave Belarus.
In October 2021, he was detained by GUBOPiK officers. First, Stas spent six months in a pre-trial detention center, and the court sentenced him to 2 years of “chemistry with direction” for participating in the 2020 protests and for “insulting” Lukashenko.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
unknown years of restriction of freedom
Grodno human rights activist and journalist Vladimir Khilmanovich has not lived in Belarus for two and a half years. But on December 1, 2023, a search was conducted in the apartment of Vladimir Khilmanovich’s wife, where he lived from 2014 to 2021, and a criminal case was opened.
She was detained under administrative article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (Petty hooliganism), sentenced to 30 days on October 31, after which she was not released and was again detained, presumably under a criminal article for donations.
It is also known that Tatyana was detained in June 2021 because white-red-white stickers were found in her bag. According to the protocol , Tatyana “during the preventive conversation, screamed loudly, waved her arms, used obscene language, jumped out of her chair, and did not react to the remark made to stop illegal actions.” Tatyana, in turn, denied this through tears, because, in her words, “she had never sworn in her life.”
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
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