A criminal case has been opened against Victoria and she is wanted for participating in protests in Pinsk in 2020 in connection with disagreement with the election results.
In June 2024, her mother was detained and sentenced to six months in prison for participating in protests in Pinsk under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Victoria's underage brother was placed in an orphanage during his mother's imprisonment.
Margarita is a Belarusian opera singer. In 2020, she took part in Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's election campaign and dealt with issues of culture and national heritage in Pavel Latushko's team and in the People's Anti-Crisis Directorate.
During a tour in Lithuania in the fall of 2020, Margarita began to be persecuted in Belarus, after which she was forced to remain abroad.
In March 2024, a criminal case was opened against Margarita as part of a special proceeding, and already in June of the same year, she was convicted in absentia for participating in an “extremist group” - “Rudobelskaya show-off”, sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment and a fine of 800 basic units.
Trial outcome 24.06.2024
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 800 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
The resident of Brest was accused of writing 2 comments under a video with Lukashenko on May 24, 2021, in the Facebook group “People’s Verdict”. One message said “sick person”, the second “schizophrenic”.
On May 16, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she was released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
On July 14, 2023, the appeal was considered. Chairman of the Judicial Board Maxim Lapko.
On August 7, 2024, in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Minsk, Judge Olga Lavrinovich will make a decision “On replacing the restriction of freedom without sending to an open correctional facility.”
Trial outcome 11.04.2023:
unknown years of restriction of freedom without direction
41 year old Anastasia has worked a lot of places, but the last known place of work is the director of the printing house of LLC «Electronic Agent».
The film on the ONT TV channel showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 in the house of Nastya and her husband Oleg Sychev in the garden association «Berezovaya Roshcha» in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).
Detained with her husband on February 23, 2023. On March 3, she was transferred from the temporary detention center to the Zhodino pre-trial detention center.
He is accused of participating in protest actions.
The family brings up 3 juvenile children.
Trial outcome:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
On the evening of March 27, Alina went to the Investigative Committee to testify as a witness in a criminal case on participation in peaceful protests in Minsk and was never released. After that, she spent several months in jail.
In conclusion, a number of chronic diseases worsened at Gorova. The security forces did not allow the detainee to be hospitalized, and in the Mogilev prison she was denied medical assistance, despite poor tests. The prison doctor refused to treat her with antibiotics and hospitalize her. On May 30, she was scheduled for 1 year of "home chemistry".
Already on June 13, she was detained again. She is charged with another episode of participation in a peaceful protest in Minsk in 2020. According to human rights activists , Alina is under house arrest pending trial.
She will be judged in the court of the Kruglyansky district on August 10, 2023. Together with the girl, Alesya Frigina and Pavel Talanov are involved in the case.
The Court of Appeal, which took place on August 29, 2023, overturned the judgment of the Kruglyansky Court of May 30, 2023. The case will be sent for a new trial to another district court of the Mogilev region.
According to the case materials , in the fall of 2020, the father and his daughter, while on the roadway of Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk, acting as a group of people, and with other people, "took an active part in group actions that grossly violated public order and involved clear disobedience to the lawful demands of a police officer, disrupted the operation of transport and enterprises, blocked and obstructed the path of vehicles, including public passenger transport."
They were identified from photographs taken at the scene.
They were kept in custody until the trial.
Trial outcome 05.04.2023
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Before the verdict was announced, the girl had been in custody since September 2, 2020. She was found guilty that on March 6, 2022, she pasted a leaflet containing slander against Lukashenko on an advertising banner on one of the streets of Minsk. According to the position of the prosecution, she spread false information about Lukashenko.
The girl admitted her guilt and said that she had printed out a leaflet and pasted it together with her friend to draw people's attention to what was happening in the world. Witnesses reported about the sticker to the police. The girl were identified by CCTV cameras.
Trial outcome 12.12.2022
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 14.03.2025
unknown.
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