Citizen of Ukraine. From June 8 to June 21, 2023, the case was considered behind closed doors by judge Anatoly Sotnikov.
On August 29, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 21.06.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 29.08.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Ilya Naryshkin is 21 years old. He is originally from Slonim, but spent part of his childhood in Grodno. Ilya’s father is Ukrainian, born in Krivoy Rog. He graduated from an aviation school back in Soviet times, but worked as a mechanical engineer in different countries. They haven’t lived together with the guy’s mother for a very long time.
Ilya entered the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Now he should have completed his third year at the Faculty of Criminal Corrections. It is known that during his studies he lived an active life - he performed in various competitions and even participated in an intellectual game from the Belarus-2 TV channel, called “Tower”. The latest public information about him dates back to March 2023.
Perhaps 21-year-old Ilya Naryshkin wanted to join the Belarusian volunteers in Ukraine. People who expressed their intention to go to fight on the side of Ukraine, expressed online or offline, were most often judged under the articles that were brought against him lately. Some of these people corresponded with fake bots of the Kalinovsky regiment, created by the special services of the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 14.08.2024: 15 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 600 basic values fine.
Judge Anzhelika Danilova begins to consider the case on July 29 , 2024 in the Minsk Regional Court.
Trial outcome 10.07.2024: 1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 19.09.2024: the sentence was upheld.
According to the case materials, Vyacheslav Murnov used obscene language to comment on posts featuring Lukashenko on Odnoklassniki in October 2021 and March 2024. This was enough to send the man to prison. In addition, he was also given "compulsory treatment for chronic alcoholism."
On September 3, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 04.07.2024: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 03.09.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 05.07.2024: 1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 04.07.2024: 1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.08.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Ilya has been working for the IT company iTechArt for over twelve years. This is a large company with over one and a half thousand employees. Ilya is a Senior software engineer. Gumbar has two well-known hobbies - sports tourism and trail running. Trail running is running long distances across rough terrain, often impassable forests or high mountains (within the route, the altitude differences can reach thousands of meters). He ranks second in Belarus among men in this discipline according to the UTMB rating.
On September 3, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 08.07.2024: 5 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 03.09.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Igor was detained on November 23, 2023. From a video on a pro-government channel published by security forces, it is known that he was a co-founder of a company for urban route transportation.
On camera, Igor says that he was detained for comments in Telegram channels about the Belarusian and Russian military.
Trial outcome 08.07.2024: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 10.09.2024: unknown.
He was found guilty of “slander against Alexander Lukashenko.” The reason was a comment on the news in one of the telegram channels, which contained sharp criticism of the politician.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
The rector of the Roman Catholic parish in Shumilino, the sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, Father Andrzej Yukhniewicz was not released from the Vitebsk temporary detention center after serving 45 days of arrest . We managed to find out that the prison term of the priest from Shumilino was extended until July 2. The only supplies he is allowed to receive are medicines. There is practically no information about him. Father Andrzej Juchniewicz has been convicted at least 4 times in a row. Probably, the first three times - for a maximum period of 15 days, and the fourth time the court assigned him a new term of arrest of 10 days.
Thus, the rector in Shumilino has been behind bars for more than 45 days - longer than all the Roman and Greek Catholic priests who were sentenced to administrative arrest in Belarus.
Let us remind you that he was detained on May 8.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
38-year-old illustrator. According to the version of the prosecution, which was voiced by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office, Natalya Levaya in 2021-2022 transferred funds and cryptocurrency in a total amount of at least four thousand and four hundred rubles (today this is about 1,275 euros). In addition, she was fined 1,000 basic units - almost the same amount that Natalya donated to the initiatives and funds. This is exactly the punishment the state requested at the trial. accusation. The trial was held behind closed doors.
Trial outcome 17.07.2024: 6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 04.10.2024: unknown.
Irina Pogadaeva is 54 years old. She is from Brest. She worked at a local library as a bibliographer. Judging by social networks, she has two children.
At the end of January 2024, when she was tried for “distributing extremist materials.” At the end of 2023, she was included in the “extremist formation.” This was recognized by the Facebook community “Letters of Solidarity Belarus 2020”, in which people exchanged letters from political prisoners and also discussed helping prisoners.
In total, the case involves more than thirty episodes in which a woman sent money to political prisoners in pre-trial detention centers in Minsk, Gomel and other cities of the country. Basically, we are talking about amounts of 4-5 rubles. In just less than a year and a half (from August 2021 to December 2022), Irina sent 188 rubles. This was enough to initiate a criminal case and arrest in May 2024.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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