Most likely he was detained in the summer of 2023. In 2013, Arthur opened his own business store, Grandbazaare, where he sold branded clothing and shoes. The VKontakte group has more than 40 thousand subscribers. In recent years, his company has specialized in the Under Armor brand. And from 2023, he translated the pages of his business into the Belarusian language.
Arthur is interested in sports, but especially football, and even previously played in amateur leagues as a goalkeeper. He uses football players and other athletes as photos for his avatars on social networks.
It is known that on July 19, 2022, Roman arrived in Belarus and disappeared: nothing was known about his whereabouts, and the South-West search and rescue team announced a search for him. Later it became known that Galuza was alive and his whereabouts had been established - without any details. But an acquaintance of Roman wrote on social networks that he was in a KGB pre-trial detention center.
In Poland, Galuza graduated from university, received citizenship, and volunteered, including helping Belarusian refugees. Roman’s detention could have been planned in advance by the Belarusian security forces.
Now he faces up to 15 years in prison.
Georgy Cherevako was detained in August while returning from the United States. He was convicted for a donation of $21.29, which he sent from his PayPal account in support of the Kalinowski Regiment. A Belarusian card was linked to the account, from which the funds were debited. The authorities considered these to be deliberate actions “for the purpose of financing activities for the recruitment, training, and other preparation” of persons for armed conflict in Ukraine.
At the trial, he said that he voluntarily told the officers who detained him that he was subscribed to numerous “extremist” telegram channels, and admitted that he had made a transfer to the account of Polk Kalinovsky.
He himself gave the employees passwords to enter the payment system. He said that he made a donation because he hoped that these funds would be used to purchase helmets, body armor, and medicines, but he understood that they would use them according to their own understanding and, among other things, buy weapons and ammunition with them.
5 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
It is known that the woman was detained when she returned from Italy.
On March 15, 2024, the appeal was considered.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Originally from Vitebsk , studied in Gomel, but recently lived in Grodno. An engineer by profession, he recently worked as a system administrator at Whitebird. Judging by social networks, he lived in Warsaw.
The man is also a radio amateur. Member of the Belarusian Federation of Radio Amateurs and Radio Athletes.
The consideration of the case began in January 2024, the last meeting was held on March 29, 2024
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Igor Nemirovich was detained for the first time in early May 2022 and was immediately placed under house arrest, but he escaped and left. In the fall of this year, he applied to the commission for considering appeals from Belarusians abroad and returned home, but this fact was not recognized as “an unconditional basis for the conclusion that he has repented.” On September 27, 2023, he was again detained and placed in custody.
According to the prosecution , on August 10, 2020, Igor Nemirovich posted on Instagram a photo with text in “an indecent form, humiliating the honor and dignity of Alexander Lukashenko, which contained a negative assessment and was insulting towards him.”
At the trial, Igor fully admitted his guilt and said that from May to August 2020 he did not live in Belarus. The Brest resident learned about the events that took place in his homeland from the media. “Succumbing to negative emotions from the events being covered,” he posted on the social network Instagram a photograph of an “offensive nature” in relation to Alexander Lukashenko.
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
He was detained in early May 2023, when he came to make a transfer to his brother Maxim Lopatin, who was detained in the Machulishchi case. Before this, the man lived in Lithuania. He was detained in the same case of sabotage in Machulishchi and charged under Art. 289 of the Criminal Code. Later, the article was reclassified to 361-2 of the Criminal Code (financing extremist activities).
Natalya was detained after returning from Poland. Her telegram account was tied to her own Belarusian number, so she could be found from the comments.
Kirill has served in the police since 2007. Detective officer, left the authorities in August 2020 and moved to IT. It is known that he was detained on February 19, 2023, right at the border: he lived in Poland for six months, and came to Brest to visit his wife and small child.
Little is known about the criminal case against Kirill: the trial was held behind closed doors. It is only known that the case was connected with the “Black Book of Belarus”.
An appeal court hearing is scheduled to take place on October 10, 2023.
8 years in a maximum security colony...
He lived and worked in Poland for a year and a half and returned to Belarus, where he was detained at the end of November 2022. According to the security forces, it was in Poland that he registered in the Peramoga plan. He also allegedly wrote messages threatening the security forces.
6 years in prison in a penal colony.
Yevgeny is 40 years old, he graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs more than 15 years ago and managed to work as a district police officer, but resigned of his own free will. Later Alex moved to IT. Subsequently, for some time he lived in Europe, in Italy. He was detained while trying to enter Belarus - the man wanted to come to his mother's birthday party and issue a power of attorney. Yevgeny Tikhonov is reportedly under criminal investigation for comments in a telegram about the security forces and Lukashenka under three articles.
The man was accused of leaving a comment in Belarusian in a corporate chat of one of the social networks of a large cargo transportation company, in which he explained that: «our flag is white-red-white»; and called today's: «sunrise over the swamp».
Pavel wrote a comment when he was in Western Europe during a flight, after which he returned to Belarus.
Pavel Dubov is from Minsk, married, has a child up to three years old. The man filed an appeal to the regional court against the court verdict.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
She was detained after returning from Poland.
A 29 year old resident of the Pruzhansky district twice gave interviews to extremist Internet resources while abroad. In addition, she is accused of administering an extremist telegram channel. Currently, she has been charged and, with the approval of the prosecutor, a preventive measure in the form of detention has been applied.
10 years imprisonment in a colony
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