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 12.10.2022
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
He was sentenced to imprisonment in the fall of 2022 for "insulting Lukashenko." The outcome of his appeal is unknown.
In June 2025, it was announced that Vladimir had been detained. The details of the case are being investigated. In the fall, he was sentenced to imprisonment.
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Trial outcome 31.10.2022
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 17.01.2023
all charges dropped.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Inga was detained in October 2022 under an administrative article, after serving her term, she was not released. In 2020, Inga was detained under an administrative article for participating in protests, but the case was closed due to the statute of limitations.
Yevgeny Shaibak was accused of painting several facades of buildings, a boiler room chimney, garbage cans and a bus stop with white, red and black paint.
Yevgeny stated at the trial that he disagreed with the results of the presidential elections in 2020, in connection with which he decided to express his protest in the form of inscriptions and drawings. On the facade of his house, a man painted a white-red-white drawing.
According to the materials of the prosecution, Anna and her husband Dmitry , having learned that a mass event would be held in Minsk in August 2020, arrived in the city, in the area of the shopping center "On Nemiga", and together with others walked along Pobediteley Avenue to the Stele, and then and further, to the hotel "Victoria", where the convoy was stopped by police officers. During the procession, they used a white-red-white flag as a protest symbol and blocked traffic, as they went out with other participants of the action to the roadway of the avenue.
According to the materials of the prosecution , Dmitry and his wife Anna , having learned that a mass event would be held in Minsk, arrived in the city, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe shopping center "On Nemiga", and together with others walked along Pobediteley Avenue to the Stele, and then further, to hotel "Victoria", where the convoy was stopped by police officers. During the procession, they used a white-red-white flag as a protest symbol and blocked traffic, as they went out with other participants of the action to the roadway of the avenue.
Before the trial, the spouses were in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Minsk. During the trial, both pleaded guilty.
Trial outcome 20.10.2022:
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
Yevgeny was found guilty of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them," allegedly for his participation in post-election protests that took place in Minsk in 2020.
In September 2022, a court hearing was held on the issue of compensation for damage caused to KTUP Minsktrans.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown.
Trial outcome 27.09.2022
unknown rubles of compensation.
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