It became known about the detention of Yevgeny Glushkov, a resident of the village of Zyabrovka in the Gomel region. According to some media reports, on the night of August 10-11, 2022, an incident occurred at the airfield in Zyabrovka, about which the media wrote a lot, then local checks began.
Eugene found an old picture of the airfield in his phone, which he took from a drone. And we also found contacts of different Ukrainians. That was enough to detain him. The guy before his detention worked as a veterinarian in one of the clinics in Gomel, has exceptionally positive characteristics from employers. Before the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Yevgeny lived abroad for a long time. In recent years - in China, where he studied music and planned to stay to live. But due to the coronavirus epidemic, he was left without sources of income and was forced to return to his homeland.
9 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
He was found guilty of facilitating extremist activities under part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code. The case was considered by Judge Oleg Khoroshko.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Valentin Fedorenko sent 160 text messages from a push-button phone to the Polish number of the Belsat TV channel. For this, he was accused of facilitating extremist activities. Valentin, who suffers from a mental illness, faced up to six years in prison. According to the source of Radio Svaboda, Valentin suffers from an incurable mental illness. The diagnosis was made back in the 1980s. After that, the pensioner did not go to the doctors. At the trial, the examination confirmed that the disease is incurable and only remission can occur. Fedorenko was sent for a new forensic examination.
In the messages, the man wrote about the movement of Russian military equipment in Gomel and the takeoffs of Russian aircraft from the airfields of the Gomel region. At the court hearing, Valentin admitted his guilt and repented. He stated that he did not know that the Belsat TV channel was an extremist formation.
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He was detained for driving near Pinsk and looking at the location of military units. According to the investigation, Anton sent this data to the Belarusian telegram channel and to someone in Ukraine.
Anton was tried for the issued state secret. The trial was held behind closed doors, so the details of how the meeting was held are unknown.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained for photographing military equipment with a mobile phone camera, filming the movements of military vehicles and later passed this information to the administrators of Telegram channels recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Dmitry was accused of sending photos and videos of military equipment with comments to the «Nexta» chat-bot in a telegram.
On February 12, 2022, he sent a video showing an unmarked plane flying at night, and he made a similar video on February 27. On March 3, Dmitry took off a tanker truck with the identification mark «V». On March 17, he sent a photo and video where something was allegedly launched from Baranovichi towards Ukraine.
None of these materials, as well as textual information, have been published in the «Nexta» channels.
2. 5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The young man was accused of taking military equipment on his phone on February 27, March 1 and March 2, 2022 and transmitting these photos to the telegram channel.
He was detained before he reached the age of majority.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He's a Taxi Driver, a Red Cross volunteer.
Oleg is accused of posting three messages on the Internet that a plane was flying over Gomel, showing the time and geolocation. And then I added a video about the movement of Russian buses of the «PAZ» brand.
Oleg has a son. Before his arrest, he worked as a taxi driver, volunteered in several charitable organizations.
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
He is an employee of the «Mozyr Oil Refinery». Vadim once worked at the «Mozyr oil refinery», and then left for Poland.
For the first time, employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption detained him right at home after returning to Belarus — for allegedly going to rallies in 2020, and after the war began, photographing military equipment and sending pictures to telegram channels.
According to human rights activists, when Vadim was detained, they beat him, seized his phone and spoiled his documents. After restoring the documents and re-obtaining a Polish visa, Mozyryanin went to the police station to find out the fate of the seized phone. There he was detained again and six protocols on administrative offenses were drawn up, and then a criminal case was opened under the article.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
The young man was charged with the fact that on February 27, 2022, he sent a video of a military aircraft to the telegram bot. Since this video was posted on the telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus, these actions were qualified under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Support of extremist activity).
Konstantin was taken into custody in the courtroom.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
She was detained for sending information about the movement of Russian troops to the telegram channel «Belaruski Gayun».
He was accused of having made a publication on the «Belarusian Gayun» telegram channel about the movement of Russian troops.
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An activist from Mozyr. He was accused of making a publication on the «Belaruski Gayun» telegram channel about the movement of Russian troops in the city of Mozyr and was taken into custody.
Pavel Nozdrya is known for being a representative of the «Zeleniy Drozd» initiative in Mozyr. He organized a number of environmental actions and initiatives in the city, in which representatives of the authorities also participated, Pavel Nozdrya is also one of the co-founders of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
«Intex-press» journalist from Baranovichi.
He was detained on April 27, 2022. On April 29, he was sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
About a week after the journalist's detention, a fragment of a video from his interrogation and information about the reason for Gontsarevich's detention appeared in the telegram channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus: he allegedly photographed Russian military equipment and sent pictures to the media, recognized by the Belarusian authorities as extremist.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
During the arrest, Alexander's phone was taken away and after viewing it, a protocol was drawn up under art. 19.11 of the Administrative Code, and later sentenced to administrative arrest. But Alexander was not released after his arrest.
The reason to start a criminal case was the transfer of photos of Russian military equipment to the telegram channel «Belarusian Gayun».
On April 15, Luchinovich was placed in the Gomel pre-trial detention center-3, he was charged.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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