Detained for donations.
Ilya has been working for the IT company iTechArt for more than twelve years. This is a large company with more than one and a half thousand employees. Ilya - Senior software engineer. Gumbar has two well-known hobbies - sports tourism and trail running. Trail running is running over long distances over rough terrain, often impassable forests or high mountains (altitude differences within the route can reach thousands of meters). He is ranked second in Belarus among men in this discipline according to the UTMB rating. It is not known exactly when Gumbar was detained, but the last time he was online was in April 2024.
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.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Anatoly Volodko is 56 years old. He is from Minsk. The man has a wife, an adult daughter and a son who will soon turn eighteen. Volodko worked as a programmer at Top Soft for more than 20 years. She is creating an ecosystem of Galaktika products needed for business digitalization. The company's central office is located in Russia, and Anatoly worked there part of the time.
The exact date of the man's arrest is unknown, but it is likely January 15 or 16, 2024. After all, on January 17, he and his wife were sentenced for “petty hooliganism” - he was sentenced to 15 days, the sentence to his wife is unknown. According to the testimony of security forces, Anatoly Volodko “was in a public place and, for hooligan reasons, shouted loudly, used obscene language, waved his arms and behaved aggressively “The man did not admit guilt and said that in the middle of the day he was detained in his own house, he did not do anything that the witnesses said.
According to cellmate Anatoly Volodko, he refused to pay the “donations” that KGB officers threatened to pay to those who made donations. In general, the man did not admit his guilt. Anatoly’s cellmate claims that this was the reason for further prosecution - administrative and criminal.
Accused of financing extremist and terrorist activities through donations to a protest initiative.
Alexander comes from Glusk, a small regional center in the Mogilev region. After graduating from school, I entered the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, majoring in “Information systems and technologies in logistics.” After graduation, I went to graduate school.
Alexander worked in the IT field.
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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.
5.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
According to the indictment , Fedor, “acting out of ideological hostility, using a mobile phone, with the intent to provide funds to a group of citizens united under the name “Honest People” and recognized as an extremist formation, transferred 52 rubles 88 kopecks to bank accounts, which is at the exchange rate OJSC "Sber Bank" at that time amounted to 20 dollars." For the same reasons, Fyodor Shvedov transferred 26 rubles 07 kopecks (USD 10 equivalent) to the organization “Belarusian Rada of Culture”. Fyodor transferred another 26 rubles 20 kopecks to the organization “BY_help”.
Fedor graduated from Grodno State University in 1998. Lives with his family in Oshmyany. He and his wife have three children - two adults and one minor. He was the star of the Belarusian “What? Where? When?” even before he got into the television version of the program.
3.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open prison correctional facility
Alexander's name appeared in the court schedule. The man is accused of donating to help Ukraine and to an “extremist group.”
It is noteworthy that the man made a donation in support of the “extremist formation” before May 2021, when there were no extremist formations in Belarus at all. Now the man faces from five to ten years in prison. The trial will begin on March 19 in the Minsk City Court.
Alexander has a small business in Molodechno: as an individual entrepreneur he is engaged in cargo transportation on his own bus. He is raising two children: a young daughter who is finishing sixth grade, and a son who should now be in high school.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
unknown years of imprisonment under general regime conditions
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On February 27, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
3 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
Sysoev comes from Bronnaya Gora; in recent years he lived in Bereza (Brest region). According to data from an already deleted profile on Vkontakte, in 2008 he graduated from BSUIR with a degree in Artificial Intelligence. At the time of his arrest, he was developing a computer game. The man was detained on July 5, 2023, and has been in custody since then.
The man was accused of transferring money to Kalinovsky’s regiment through the social network Facebook using the PayPal payment system. The transfer in the amount of 12.91 US dollars was from a Belarusian card.
On February 12, prosecutor Bogush requested 5 years in a maximum security colony for Sysoev. The verdict was announced on February 14. The exact verdict is currently unknown, but in the vast majority of cases in political cases, Brest judges award exactly what prosecutors ask for.
5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.
He was sentenced to 5 years in prison for donating to Kalinovsky’s regiment (the first - 13.63 euros, the second - 35 euros, a total of 133 rubles 30 kopecks).
5 years imprisonment in a colony
The man’s “repentance video” was shown in one of Azarenka’s programs, where Alexander “admits” to participating in protests and reposting on Facebook on the topic of elections and COVID. Note that in the propagandist’s program Tereshchenko is also called an officer and “the head of the KGB of the Borisov region” .
It is known that Alexander was sentenced to prison.
On April 5, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
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