At first, Alexey was detained for 10 days, after which he was transferred to the pre-trial detention center -1.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Since 1996, he has been actively involved in the life of Catholic youth. He participated in local and parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2004. He was one of the initiators of the formation of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party. But since 2011 he has withdrawn from active participation in political life.
He was convicted, among other things, for posting information about the «Freedom March» on his page on August 15, 2020, on August 17 he posted information in which he analyzes the mistakes of the last march, on August 20, 2020 he posted information about how to act when suppressing protests by law enforcement officers. He left more than twenty such messages.
Artyukhov was also accused of direct participation in one such action in Minsk in August 2020.
Nikolay admitted his guilt in the commission of the acts incriminated to him in full at the court hearing, did not deny the authorship of the texts and messages that he left on the social network vk.ru and facebook.com.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Diana has a minor child with a disability.
According to the indictment, Smolyakov, Asmolovsky and Chernushina took an active part in a protest rally in Minsk on August 23, 2020, they grossly violated public order, did not respond to calls from police officers, disturbed the peace of citizens and hindered the movement of public transport.
2 years of imprisonment.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained for participating in protests in 2020.
On October 20, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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The former MSLU teacher was detained in early October 2022 as part of a criminal case for participating in protests. She was detained by at least six law enforcement officers.
Prior to that, during the year Natalia was detained four times and tried on politically motivated administrative articles.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Painter, former head of the creative community «Pogonia». He was detained in August 2022 and sentenced to 15 days of arrest. Later it became known that a criminal case was opened against Gennady for participating in protests in 2020.
3 years in prison.
An evangelical believer, a minister and the wife of one of the pastors of the Minsk evangelical church «New Testament», was detained on July 5, 2022, together with her husband Philip Ivanov. Philip was released after the arrest, and Lydia was taken into custody on a criminal case.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Columnist, director, organizer of honey fairs and director of the «Tsar-Med» company.
Convicted of participating in protests on August 23, 2020 as a columnist.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
2,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In early September, the telegram channel of the volunteer initiative «Lists of Detainees» published information about the detention of an entire family: Jana, Anastasia and Ales Papkovich. Anastasia was released. And Jana and Ales were transferred to the pre-trial detention center -1. During the detention, Ales' phone and equipment were taken away. As a result, we found one photo from March 2020. For him, the guy was given 2 years in prison.
Ales was fond of music since childhood, - says the brother of the political prisoner. - He knows a lot of Belarusian performers, he played with some of them. For example, he performed with cover bands in Minsk clubs, and performed as a violinist with the D-Major group. The last two years before the arrest became especially creative for Ales - he wrote several lyrics for songs, music for them, made recordings. Ales sings in Belarusian.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
At the beginning of September, the telegram channel of the volunteer initiative “Lists of Detainees” published information about the detention of an entire family: Yan, Anastasia and Ales Papkovich.
Special forces burst into Jan's apartment. During the arrest, security forces shot a machine gun and wounded a dog that started barking at them.
For a month, Yan was in a KGB pre-trial detention center, where he was tortured and could not walk. In stories on BT, Yan was shown as a mercenary who was going to Ukraine. It is known that Yang did not admit his guilt at the trial. One of the witnesses at the trial stated that “they put pressure on him, and he signed everything they said.” As evidence of Yan’s guilt, his private correspondence with his wife, as well as friends who, according to the investigation, serve in Ukraine in Kalinovsky’s regiment were voiced.
Ian worked as a cash collector at Belgazprombank.
In March 2024, Yan was convicted under Article 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and another 3 months of imprisonment was added to the existing sentence.
4 years and 3 months of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
He is accused of attacking journalist Azarenka and participating in protest actions 2020.
According to the prosecution's version, Artem Zabelenkov was on Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk on October 11, 2020, where he demanded to stop filming one TV channel supporting the current government in Belarus.
He also allegedly used violence against journalist Grigory Azarenka and threatened to use violence against cameraman Andrei Ivanenko.
In addition, Artem Zabelenkov is accused that on October 11, 2020, together with other persons, he took an active part in group actions that grossly violate public order, resulting in disruption of transport and enterprises.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted of participating in protest actions 2020.
Restrictions on freedom with referral to an open-type institution.
Member of the United Civic Party.
He was detained on the same days that several other party members were detained. According to the indictment, Smolyakov, Osmolovsky and Chernushina took an active part in a protest rally in Minsk on August 23, 2020. Members of the UCP grossly violated public order, did not respond to calls from police officers, disturbed the peace of citizens and obstructed the movement of public transport.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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