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.
Trial outcome 20.01.2023:
9 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
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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.
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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.
Trial outcome:
unknown
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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.
Trial outcome 18.07.2022:
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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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.
Trial outcome 07.09.2022: 3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 02.12.2022: unknown.
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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.
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He was accused of having made a publication on the «Belarusian Gayun» telegram channel about the movement of Russian troops.
On December 6, 2022, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome:
Unknown
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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.
Trial outcome:
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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According to the version of the telegrams of channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, he was detained for a photo of railway transport. He was previously arrested under an administrative article. A citizen of Moldova.
Trial outcome:
Unknown
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A former teacher from Khoyniki was accused of videotaping the movement of a column of military equipment, and then sent the recording to the telegram channel «Belaruski Gayun».
Trial outcome 06.12.2022:
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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It is reported that the man was detained for the events of August 2020, but law enforcement officers found photos of military equipment in his phone, which he uploaded to the telegram channel «Kalinkovichi for Life» on February 23.
Trial outcome:
Unknown
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He was detained for driving a car near Pinsk and looking at the location of military units. According to the investigation, Anton sent this data to a Belarusian Telegram channel and to someone in Ukraine.
Anton was tried for leaking state secrets. The trial was held behind closed doors, so the details of how the hearing went are unknown.
In November 2024, he was released after serving his sentence.
A teacher of chemistry and biology at the secondary school in Molozhin. According to investigators, he collected information about the existing shortcomings in the work of trade and service facilities, and also carried out photo and video recording of the movement of military equipment in the Gomel region, which he passed on to "extremist" channels.
He was detained for taking photographs of military equipment with a mobile phone camera, filming the movements of military vehicles and subsequently passing this information on to the administrators of “extremist” Telegram channels.
04/21/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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.
Trial outcome 03.08.2022: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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