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The goalkeeping coach of the Lviv football club, Vasily, was arrested in Belarus for protesting against the Lukashenka regime in 2020. Vasily returned to his homeland for a knee operation. According to Lvov head coach Oleg Dulub, Khomutovsky did not allow the thought that he could be detained in Belarus, and planned to return to Ukraine soon.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
A 37-year-old native of Baranovichi was detained on August 22, 2022 at the train station, when she once again arrived in Belarus from Andorra, according to pro-government channels.
In the video, Olga herself said that in August 2020 she considered that the elections were rigged. On Instagram, she subscribed to the "Nexta" page, from where she took screenshots and posted them on her page, made comments.
Released for 24,000 euros, charges dropped.
Allegedly arrested for insulting comments on the Internet.
He was detained upon his return to Belarus.
unknown years of restriction of liberty
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Yuri is accused of the fact that on January 25, 2022, from his mobile phone “in order to humiliate the honor and dignity of the head of state, guided by base motives” in one of the online communities, he wrote a comment about Lukashenko: “He organized terrorism and genocide in the country, and also "were engaged in occupation."
According to linguistic expertise, this comment “has a negative assessment of the activities of the head of state, which is not true.”
It is known that the man is 39 years old, he is from Ivanovo, a builder by training. Before his arrest, Yuri lived and worked in Russia for several years and visited Belarus on vacation.
According to human rights activists, he was released in early spring 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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Epam employee.
Ekaterina returned from Lithuania, where she left in February 2022.
She was detained along with her sister Yulia Glinskaya in Minsk, where Ekaterina returned to get the cat. The detention was carried out by the GUBOPik; the girls were captured as they walked to their car. The apartment was then searched.
She was released on May 2, 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 14.10.2022: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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55-year-old photographer.
He was forced to leave for Russia due to political persecution in 2020, but due to an expired passport and the outbreak of war, he returned to Belarus in May 2022.
It is known that in September and November 2020, the man posted offensive information on the Telegram channel and Viber messenger against Lukashenko, as well as the Minister of Internal Affairs, who at that time was Yuri Karaev.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Igor Fedorov worked for many years as a mechanical engineer at the Aviation Repair Plant in Baranovichi. But after the events of August 2020, when the man, together with other factory workers, actively expressed his civic position, he was brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 23.34 and Art. 24.3 Code of Administrative Offences. After this, his contract was not renewed, and subsequently Igor was forced to emigrate altogether, fearing criminal prosecution.
On February 27, 2022, he returned home to participate in the referendum. The guy was detained near the polling station and placed in a temporary detention center in Baranavichy. On March 2, he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-6.
12/18/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The 36 year old youngest son of the legendary Belarusian businessman from the village of Komarovo, Eduard Voitekhovich, was traveling to his father's funeral from Riga and was arrested by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption right at the border.
He tried to enter Belarus on January 14, 2022, the Belarusian border guards did not let him go for a long time, and then the staff of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption arrived from Minsk and took him to the detention center on the «Okrestina».
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the beginning of October 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Director of the Vilna printing house.
She was detained on April 4, 2022 in the case of «railway partisans», after she came from Lithuania to Belarus for the anniversary of her mother's death.
The propaganda film on «BT» shows a piece of Alesya's interrogation, where she tells how she bought Lithuanian SIM cards a few days before her trip to Belarus, shows where she hid them on the territory of the country, how she filmed everything to send to her curator in Lithuania. And also that she had to send young people when they arrived at the border. Finally, she was charged under Part 3 of Article 371 of the Criminal Code - intentional illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus committed by an organized group.
05/03/2024 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
| 14.05.2022 | As of May 10, 2022, she received only three letters from her son, although dozens of letters and postcards were sent by friends and relatives. |
3.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The sentence was reduced by a year due to an amnesty.
Artyom was detained on 23.11. 2021. He came to the Republic of Belarus for one day to pass the certification at work and was detained right at the office. From November 23, he was in a temporary detention center, on December 2, 2021 he was transferred to SIZO-1. Allegedly blamed for riots in 2020
3 years of restriction of liberty with a referral.
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A citizen of the Russian Federation, a volunteer of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's initiative group. He was detained on June 6, 2020 in Belarus, on November 26 Andrei Novikov was simply taken to the border with Russia, stamped with a ban on entry to Belarus for 10 years. He has a wife and two children in Belarus.
Andrei Novikov was detained again on April 13 in the village of Prusa, where he had secretly arrived to visit his wife and children. Novikov was charged under Article 371 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ("Illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus"). The charge under Article 342 of the Criminal Code has not been dropped against him either.
On October 31, 2022, he was released upon completion of his term and handed over to the FSB of the Russian Federation upon deportation from the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 05.08.2021: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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Vitaly was detained after returning from abroad and convicted for participating in the events that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
12/21/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 21.05.2021: 4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 06.07.2021: unknown.
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Artem was detained on August 17, 2020 and convicted for participating in protest actions.
He was released in August 2021 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 15.01.2021: 1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown: the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 04.10.2021: approximately 1340 rubles of compensation.
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David was detained upon his return from Poland as part of a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests against fraud in the presidential elections that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
On January 21, 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 12.07.2021: 3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 08.10.2021: the sentence was upheld.