According to the court, the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, and went out onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
According to the court, the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, and went out onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
Trial outcome 12.09.2024
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
On a pro-government Telegram channel, Ilya says in a video that on August 10, 2020, he “stupidly went to Brest.” There, he went out onto the roadway, where “stones were thrown, fireworks were displayed, barricades were built.” He also said that he was at the protests with a friend who was already “serving a sentence.”
It is unknown what status the Belarusian has and what exactly he is accused of.
The pro-government channel published a video about the detention of the Sergievich spouses. According to Mediazona, we are talking about Ekaterina and Alexandra Sergievich from Brest. The woman's mother was convicted of insulting Lukashenko.
On camera, detainee Ekaterina says that security forces came to their home to detain her husband because he “participated in protests in 2020.” Ekaterina herself had a correspondence in her telegram with the human rights center “Viasna” - she contacted her when her mother was arrested.
In the police video, Alexander says that during the protests he “was in the wrong place at the wrong time.” The authors of the video show a photograph of him during the protests on Masherov Avenue in Brest. “Mother, daughter and son-in-law put together an extremist full house,” wrote the administrators of the pro-government channel.
A pro-government channel shows the arrest of a man: three security officers run up to him from behind on the street and put him face down on the asphalt. In the video, Yakovenko says that on August 10, 2020, he was on Masherov Avenue in Brest. He was there with his friend Igor Sorokin (he was arrested in February after returning from Poland).
According to human rights activists, he was released at the end of May 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
In a “repentance video” on a pro-government channel , a man says that he was previously arrested for 10 days under the article on distributing “extremist materials” (Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code). This time he was detained for standing on the roadway with his friends in 2020 and “launching fireworks at employees.”
Detained in a criminal case of mass riots 08/10/2020
Trial outcome 12.09.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
In 2020, when Artem participated in the meeting, he was 16 or 17 years old. He was found guilty under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for participating in protests in Brest on the night of August 10-11, 2020.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2025.
Stanislav was detained upon returning to Belarus from Poland, where he had moved more than a year earlier. He came home in late 2023 to spend the holidays with his family, but was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened after protests on August 10, 2020, in Brest against the falsification of the presidential election. Stanislav was convicted of participating in “mass riots.”
In a pro-government confessional video published, he says that he "participated in protests and went out onto the roadway." The recording shows that Stanislav's face is scratched, although no such damage was visible when he was detained.
Alesya was convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" in a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, people sang and danced in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
Trial outcome 08.06.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Daniil was detained on February 19, 2021, on charges of damaging a public transport stop in the agro-town of Bolshiye Radvanichi by writing graffiti. In May 2021, he was convicted under the article "Hooliganism committed by a group of persons." At the time of the incriminated episode, Daniil was a minor. He did not admit guilt.
Trial outcome 13.05.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 358 rubles of compensation.
Olga, a volunteer of the PSO "Angel", was detained and convicted for installing a scarecrow, which, according to investigators, resembled Lukashenko, in the district center on Varshavskoe Shosse.
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