Investigators report that in August 2020, at some point, an SUV with foreign registration plates and tinted windows attracted the attention of police officers. When the policemen went to the car, the accused started reversing and deliberately ran over one of them, after which he fled the scene.
Traffic police officers pursued the accused, but the driver abandoned his car near the village of Antonovo, and he disappeared.
The video from the registrar of the traffic police official car shows a large gathering of police officers in full gear. The moment of hitting one of them is not visible.
The man was put on the wanted list and upon his return from Poland on May 5, 2022 in Baranovichi, he was detained and placed in custody.
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Political activist from Grodno. In 2017, he spoke at protests related to the introduction of a “tax on parasitism.” In 2019, I set up a tent in front of the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Grodno to solve the housing problem. In 2020, Lavrentiev, together with activist Nikolai Solyanik, held a number of actions for the introduction of quarantine in Belarus during the coronavirus pandemic. Before the 2020 presidential elections, the activist was serving administrative arrest for an action during a meeting with Sergei Tikhanovsky. In the fall of 2020, he left Belarus for Poland.
In Poland, he volunteered to help two Belarusian refugees. but in December 2020, Alexander disappeared from a rented apartment in Bialystok. The girls' money also disappeared with him. He did not answer calls or messages. He told his friend that he calmly crossed the Polish-Belarusian border, but his case in Belarus was closed due to lack of evidence. In 2021, Alexander purchased a food truck and worked in one of the microdistricts of Grodno. I was selling shawarma. On May 2, 2022, Lavrentyev was detained right at his workplace. Detained by the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Grodno Region. After the arrest, the Grodno resident said on camera that he was detained for distributing extremist information online and insulting the president. He admitted guilt.
On October 11, 2022, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
In the summer of 2024, it became known that Grodno resident Alexander Lavrentiev was given another 1 year of imprisonment in a colony under Article 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (“malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of a correctional institution”).
4 years 4 months imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Evgeny was detained on January 18, 2022, when he arrived in Grodno from Germany.
On camera, Yevgeny told law enforcement officers that in 2020 he was in chat rooms recognized as extremist, where he called for mass riots, police killings, burning of «Tabakerka».
7 years imprisonment in a colony
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The owner of the YouTube channel “Third Region Belarus” was detained on January 10, 2022, when he returned to Belarus for the holidays.
He is accused of de-anonymizing the security forces and, after leaving for Ukraine, he continued to “post anti-state information on social networks and promote resistance to government officials.”
The man uploaded videos to his channel from solidarity rallies of Belarusians in Kyiv. He is also accused of making cynical comments about the deceased KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk.
On July 18, 2023, the Shklovsky District Court considered Oleg’s case under Part 2 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Oleg was transferred to prison regime.
Trial outcome 07.09.2022: 5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Trial outcome 18.07.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Regime change trial date unknown: unknown years of prison regime.
Lev Ivchin is 21 years old . The guy hid in Russia for a long time. This year, in the summer, he returned to Belarus, where he was detained . Lev Valerievich Ivchin is the son of political prisoner Valery Ivchin. The latter was also tried in Mogilev in June 2024 under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for participating in Minsk protests. The court sentenced him to 2 years and 6 months of restricted freedom with referral to a correctional institution.
Trial outcome 20.09.2024: 2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 30 basic values fine.
Appeal 12.11.2024: unknown.
Pro-government Telegram channels claim that the girl had been abroad for several years.
In the "repentance video" she was forced to talk about how difficult it was for her in other countries of the world where she traveled, so she "made the decision to return to the territory of the Republic of Belarus in order to continue to live, work, develop and start a family on our Belarusian land."
In a pro-government video , the man says he came from Poland and was detained at the border for being with protesters at a rally on Sovetskaya Street with his friend Vladislav Lapin. The authors of the post claim that Lapin is fighting in Ukraine on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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Elizaveta worked at the IT company SENLA. She probably left for Poland after the start of the war in Ukraine. Then she returned to Grodno and was detained.
The trial of the IT specialist will begin on July 23. The girl was charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for allegedly “participating in protests.”
Trial outcome 24.07.2024: unknown.
Appeal 01.10.2024: unknown.
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Programmer who came to Belarus from Poland. She was detained along with her friend Maxim Panov in May 2024 for participating in a protest in 2020.
Trial outcome 26.06.2024: unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 20.08.2024: the sentence was upheld.
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The girl in the pro-government video says that she took part in the protests and also allegedly supervised the Nesterka yard chat. This is a chat of a house on Bogdanovicha Street, 78, where the famous Nesterka store once was.
The Gubopovites claim that they were warned about the girl’s return through a bot, but they do not confirm this in any way.
Gretta Dalinkevich (Maksimova) did waxing in 2020. The woman has two minor children. It is known that in 2021 she moved to Kaliningrad with her husband Evgeniy Dalinkevich, who got a job there as a sports massage therapist. But then they broke up and she moved to Minsk. It is known that in the last few weeks she was in Europe, but did not move there to live.
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Soloist of the group “Minimum Distance”. In the pro-government video, Egeniy says that he participated in protests in 2020, and after the elections “he was relocated along with his office to Ukraine.” After the start of the war, he went to Poland and remained there until his work visa expired, which he was unable to renew in Poland. After that he returned to Belarus.
Security forces show a screenshot of their bot with a denunciation of a detainee and his photo.
After the trial, a video appeared on the same pro-government channel where Evgeniy says that he was sentenced to 3 years of restriction of freedom, after which he decided to confess and “repent” of the donations.
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction
Most likely, the girl was detained upon returning to Belarus, since her Facebook account (now closed) was completely uncleaned. There was a white-red-white flag on the avatar, subscriptions to the “mirror” and “Charter’97” were saved. And the payments included three donations - for 10, 20 and 50 dollars.
Olga graduated from Gomel State University in 2011, she studied to become a mathematical programmer. Her Linkedin profile lists six IT companies for which she has worked. Since August 2020, the girl has been leading a team of testers at the UULA company, registered in Kuwait. However, Olga Blazhevich’s account indicates that she worked in India.
According to security officials, Olga Blazhevich is now in a temporary detention center and the question of what responsibility to bring her to justice is being decided.
Igor Nemirovich was detained for the first time in early May 2022 and immediately placed under house arrest, but he escaped and left. In the fall of this year, he appealed to the commission for reviewing appeals from Belarusians abroad and returned home, but this fact was not recognized as "an unconditional basis for concluding that he repented." On September 27, 2023, he was detained again and placed in custody.
According to the prosecution , on August 10, 2020, Igor Nemirovich posted a photo on Instagram with text in an "indecent form, degrading the honor and dignity of Alexander Lukashenko, which contained a negative assessment and was offensive towards him."
At the trial, Igor admitted his guilt in full 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. "Having succumbed to negative emotions from the events being covered," he posted a photo of an "offensive nature" regarding Alexander Lukashenko on the social network Instagram.
08/16/2024 released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Elena was detained in connection with the “round dance” case. She was returning from Poland to Brest. At passport control, the border guards became interested in the fact that the woman was born in Ukraine. She was handed over to unknown people in civilian clothes who demanded a phone number.
As a result, the woman was detained. After that there was an administrative court (15 days of arrest under Part 2 of Article 19. 11 of the Administrative Code) through two reposts in Telegram. And then the woman was placed in a pre-trial detention center until trial.
It is known that Elena lived in Brest and went to Poland for shopping.
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction
After Klim’s relative, with whom he was at one of the marches in 2020, was detained in December 2021, Klim decided not to wait for his detention and left for Moscow. A few days later, law enforcement officers came to his parents’ apartment looking for Klim. A year and a half later, summonses from the military registration and enlistment office began to arrive at his Belarusian address, since his deferment from the army had ended. Klim decided to go to the Republic of Belarus and undergo a medical examination. In the summer of 2023, after arriving in Belarus, he was detained by employees of the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control, and during his arrest he was severely beaten. A criminal case was opened against him for participating in protests in 2020; Klim was in custody before the trial.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction