was detained on September 29, 2021 in Gomel in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment. It is known that Maxim is a disabled person of the 2nd group.
3.5 years in prison in a penal colony.
BJD employee. According to preliminary information, he was detained under articles 356 and 357 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (“treason against the state” and “conspiracy or other actions committed to seize state power”).
12 years in a colony under enhanced regime conditions
Vyacheslav was detained for transferring the data of representatives of law enforcement agencies to the telegram channel.
7 years of imprisonment in a colony under the conditions of an enhanced regime with deprivation in accordance with Art. 60 of the Criminal Code of the special rank of "lieutenant colonel of justice" of the reserve.
pensioner, former driver of the Zhlobin District Department of Internal Affairs. He was detained on May 26, 2021 for participating in mass riots, and on May 28 he was taken into custody. He was accused of being the organizer and participant in the mass riots in Zhlobin on the night of August 9-10, 2020: he stood in a coupling, blocked traffic and resisted. According to the prosecution, he also used violence against police officers while intoxicated. However, according to Vladimir, he was sober.
3 years in prison .
According to the indictment, Alexander Nagello left 13 comments in the Smorgon-CHAT telegram chat, in which he sharply spoke negatively about the actions of policemen during protests after last year's elections, and the comments also contained calls for violence. Nagello was arrested in early June and taken into custody pending trial.
| 25.09.2021 | She sent a letter to Grodno, on September 24 it was returned with the note "For departure" and the postscript "IK-3 Vitba". I understand that he was transferred. |
3 years in prison .
Former director of the BelaPAN news agency. He was detained on July 18 after a search and interrogation at the Investigative Committee. On August 28, 2021, he was transferred to SIZO-1.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony.
According to the indictment , in November last year Arthur made an installation with a portrait of Alexander Lukashenko and the inscription “Rot in Hell”, installed it in one of the city’s vacant lots, photographed it and posted the photo in a telegram chat.
3.5 years in prison to be served in a general regime colony
In August and October 2020, he was serving an administrative arrest. Arrested on June 28, 2021 under a criminal article for an episode at the communication facility of the Russian Navy near Vileyka.
According to the version of the prosecution , which was voiced at the trial, Gulevich and Glotov, "dressed in camouflage uniforms and taking firearms, ammunition for an act of terrorism, entered the territory of a military facility. Glotov recorded explosive devices that had a damaging effect within a radius of at least 11 meters. After installation, they retreated to a safe distance.
According to the expert's conclusion, the initiation of explosive devices took place with a slow action. One explosive device did not detonate simultaneously with the others, it was later neutralized and seized by the state security agencies.
In addition to imprisonment, Vadim was fined 600 basic units (19,200 rubles).
| 20.11.2021 | It is forbidden to receive money to a personal account because of the "list of terrorists". |
18 years of imprisonment in a penal colony under a reinforced regime
accused of the August "riots" in Brest. He was taken into custody on July 19, 2021 at the request of prosecutors.
3.5 years in prison under enhanced regime.
Former assistant prosecutor of the Pervomaisky district of Minsk. In August 2020, he initiated an inspection of people in uniform in the uniform of the traffic police who beat bikers. The check did not lead to anything, Yevgeny resigned from the prosecutor's office. He was detained on June 10, sentenced to 15 days, then again to 15 days. After 30 days, Yevgeny was not released and he was charged under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus,
| 15.07.2021 | Igorevich |
4 years in prison
The trial was held behind closed doors at the request of the prosecution in order to ensure the safety of the injured OMON officers. It is known that Viktor Prusov was detained on September 27, 2020 during one of the protest actions in Gomel, in the detention center he was informed that a criminal case had been opened for resisting police officers (Article 363 of the Criminal Code). Then the case was closed, but the prosecutor's office returned it for further investigation, during which the episode was reclassified under Art. 364 of the Criminal Code. Victor was again taken into custody on June 17, 2021.
On April 25, 2022, the second trial took place, where Viktor was sentenced to 1.5 years in a colony, in total with the first term was 3,5 years.
3,5 years in prison .
became defendants in the case of mass riots in Brest on August 10.
During the investigation of the case, Romanov left the country and was in Russia, and in Belarus he was put on the wanted list. He was detained on the evening of June 4 in the Ivye district while trying to cross the Belarusian-Lithuanian border in order to move to the European Union.
On June 8, he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
3.5 years in prison under enhanced regime.
Aviation Academy student. Khomichkova’s case concerns the events of July 14, 2020, when the Central Election Commission refused to register candidates for the presidential elections. According to the indictment, Vladimir Khomichkov was detained for participating in an unauthorized mass event on the steps of the KFC restaurant at the intersection of Nemiga Street and Pobediteley Avenue. Then he became involved in a criminal case.
Vladimir's regime was tightened to imprisonment.
4 years restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional institution ("chemistry")
Aleksey Mikhalkevich was detained by the GUBOPiK in the village of Doroshki, Minsk region on December 16, 2020 “on suspicion of involvement in the riots that took place in Minsk.”
5 years of imprisonment in conditions of a reinforced regime .
Yauhen Yushkevich is a former investigator from the Investigative Committee. In 2017, he resigned from his position as a senior investigator of the Economic Crime Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee Office in Minsk, and in 2020 he became the developer and initiated the bychange.me project, which helped to provide a different education for law enforcement officers, civil servants, and people who were fired or quit their jobs on grounds of conscience.
The man was tried for more than a month in a closed-door trial on six articles of the Criminal Code, including "organisation of mass disorder" in 2020, "inciting social hatred" in interviews and texts on social media, and "threatening violence" to the head of the Temporary Detention Facility (IVS) on Okrestina via a tweet. It is reported that Yushkevich was "an active participant in the Telegram chat "HATA", whose activities are aimed at organising extremist crimes".
| 30.06.2021 | Mikhailovich |
11 years' imprisonment with enhanced regime
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