Detained together with her daughter.
The apartment was searched under Article 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Then the article of accusation was reclassified to Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
He is previously accused of distributing personal data of Interior Ministry employees.
Trial outcome 20.01.2023: 7 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 28.04.2023: the sentence was upheld.
A former law enforcement officer, then worked at EPAM before being detained.
He was detained in October 2021 under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Inciting social discord) for transmitting the data of security forces to the telegram channels «Karateli Belarusi» and «Chernaya kniga Belarusi» («Punishers of Belarus» and «Black Book of Belarus»).
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
A resident of Vitebsk.
The girl was charged under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Inciting social hostility) for transmitting the data of security forces, teachers, judges to the telegram channel «Chernaya kniga Belarusi» («Black Book of Belarus»).
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
An employee of the Mogilev branch of Beltelecom. Arrested at the workplace on October 28, 2021. He is preliminarily accused of distributing data to employees of law enforcement agencies.
6.5 years in prison.
street art artist, an IT specialist, was detained in mid-July 2021 for transferring data from representatives of law enforcement agencies to the Black Book of Belarus telegram channel.
7 years in a colony under enhanced regime
unknown
An employee of the Ministry of Education. Sergei is accused of leaking data to the ChKB.
They detained Sergei brutally: several security forces suddenly ran into him when the man calmly walked around the courtyard of a high-rise building.
According to the pro-government telegram channels, a resident of Minsk wrote comments in "extremist" chats calling for forceful resistance to the internal affairs bodies (the security forces showed several messages dated August 2020), and also sent personal data to the bot of the Black Book of Belarus channel several judges.
1.5 yearsof imprisonment in a penal colony under general regime
Evgeny Vasilevsky was detained almost a year ago in Moscow, from March 25 to April 7, 2022, he was sentenced to administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding mass events).
The essence of the accusation is still unknown. Probably, we are talking about the transfer of personal data of security forces to protest chats.
In the fall of 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Programmer. Presumably detained in the case of ChKB.
He worked as an international transportation manager for the Minsk company Transglobal.
Sergey was very active in commenting on various messages in more than 30 groups. The Telegram account was more or less decently protected, but he had not changed it since 2018.
The security forces accuse him of "threatening government officials on the Internet" (he left 43 thousand comments). And also of transferring some information about his former classmate, a security officer, to the "Black Book of Belarus". 58 criminal cases have been opened against him.
On September 29, 2023, he was sent to pretrial detention center No. 4 (Mogilev). On October 27, Sergei's appeal was considered in the Minsk City Court. In late autumn 2023, it became known that Sergei had been transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1 as part of a new criminal case. The trial under Article 369 (insulting a government official) was scheduled for December 7, 2023, in the Minsk Moskovsky District Court, Judge Tatyana Pirozhnikova.
Trial outcome 10.08.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.10.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 08.12.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.02.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Local historian, teacher of history of the highest qualification category, researcher of archaeological sites, toponymy, history of settlements, life and work of famous people of the Miory region, head of the museum association "Heritage of the Miory Territory". Vitold was allegedly detained for insulting comments and "leaking" data into the Black Book of Belarus. Together with him, his son Anton Yermalenok was detained.
Pavel Belikov is the director of a large advertising studio "Legalitbay".
He was detained together with his wife. In the security forces' video, Pavel says that he allegedly printed protest leaflets at a printing house owned by "Legalitbay". The man also says that he allegedly wrote to "protest" Telegram channels, including "The Black Book of Belarus". He allegedly passed on information about police officers and the prosecutor to the latter. His wife works for an IT company. She was detained for having a protest sticker on her car. In the video, she says that she "participated in the protests", but no confirmation of this is provided.
in the telegram channel of the pro-government department, he is called the administrator of the "extremist formation" Black Book of Belarus "".
Daniil was tried in absentia .
12 years in prison
in the telegram channel of the pro-government department, she is called the administrator of the “extremist formation Black Book of Belarus.” Yanina also leads the YouTube channel "Dzikae palyavanne".
Yanina was tried in absentia.
12 years in prison
in the telegram channel of the pro-government department, she is called the administrator of the “extremist formation Black Book of Belarus.”
Valeria was tried in absentia .
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