According to the channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, he was detained for creating a cultural and historical «Rezystans» telegram channel.
«Rezystans»,was recognized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs as an extremist formation on March 29, 2022 — after Nikita's 15-day administrative arrest, which he served in February under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code (distribution of extremist materials). At the moment, the Rezystans telegram channel has been deleted.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to the channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, he was detained for registration in the «Peramoga» plan, as well as for comments in social networks.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to the position of the state prosecution, Sanyuta, a resident of Baranovichi, incited hostility against law enforcement officers, namely: on August 12, 2020, he posted one message in the telegram chat «Baranovichi 97%». In this message, calls for violence against the security forces were seen in two places: «Look for law enforcement officers who come to mass events in civilian clothes and beat them with a crowd», «Lure a special purpose militia unit into ambushes».
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained for an action on the railway.
During the offensive of Russian armies on Kiev from the Gomel region, he, along with Denis Dikun and Oleg Molchanov, burned a cabinet with electronic equipment on the railway in order to slow down the delivery of Russian military equipment to the Ukrainian border. As a result, traffic lights and switches on one of the sections of the Zhlobin – Kalinkovichi railway, which then continues to Ukraine, were put into a faulty condition.
Dmitry worked in the Vyshkomontazhny management of the Republican Unitary Enterprise «PO Belorusneft» as a vyshkomontazhnik-electrician.
22 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to the case materials, a participant in a group chat in August 2020 used a mobile phone to post messages from his account with statements of a motivational character, calls for physical violence against law enforcement officers.
On August 15, 2020 and February 12, 2021, he posted offensive comments to the president, as well as the military commissar of the Gomel region, Andrei Krivonosov, in a Telegram chat.
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the prosecution, in August 2021, he and Yaroslav Geben tore down the national flag from one of the shops and took photos with him in an indecent manner, filmed a video.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the prosecution's version, Vitaliy Zhilinsky repeatedly in August-September 2020, as part of a group of people, moved along the carriageways of Nezavisimost Avenue, Pobediteley, Pushkin, Maxim Bogdanovich and Yakub Kolos Streets in Minsk, publicly shouting slogans. As a result of illegal actions, transport links in the capital were blocked, which led to a malfunction of public transport.
In addition, the political prisoner was charged with posting on January 6 and 9, 2022, in one of the Telegram chats, publications available to an unlimited number of persons aimed at inciting social hostility and discord against military personnel who carried out peacekeeping activities in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
3 years of imprisonment.
He is a programmer, enjoys music and fishing. Very inquisitive, knowledgeable in many areas. Studies English and German. He always knew that he would live in Germany, loves the Rammstein band, listens to them all his life, knows all the songs by heart.
The channels supporting the current state authorities reported that Artem was detained for having developed a barcode scanning program to boycott companies that support the current government.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
He was on the case together with Artem Fedosenko, the director of a private printing house from Minsk.
40 year old Pavel Yukhnevich was detained on March 19, 2021 by traffic police officers on the highway near Minsk. Employees found protest leaflets, newspapers in the car, etc.
According to the investigative committee, thousands of copies of protest newspapers, stickers with unregistered symbols and leaflets were seized from Yukhnevich.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
A citizen of Russia, has lived in Belarus since the age of 6, an individual entrepreneur.
He is accused of setting fire to the car of the head of the Department of Corrections and puncturing tires in 39 trolleybuses in Gomel.
He was detained on November 5, 2021. He was in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee in Minsk. On December 13, 2021, he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-3.
I was an observer at the last presidential election. Engaged in civic activism. In 2019, he opposed the development. Does not drink, does not smoke, has a heightened sense of justice, as his relatives say. Two juvenile children remained at large.
On January 3, 2022, Andrei was tried again, already under four criminal articles, including for promoting extremist activities and inciting other social hostility. The verdict was announced behind closed doors, so the details of the case and the position of the political prisoner are unknown. As a result, he was added to 15 years of imprisonment for another year and eight months in a penal colony of strict regime. In addition, the political prisoner received a penalty of 32 000 BYN.
16 years 8 months of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
Detained on August 22, 2021 near the dacha of the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus Sukalo V.O. for attempted arson.
It may have been provoked by employees of the State Security Committee.
10 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
He is an investigative journalist, editor of the Belarusian portal «Ezhednevnik» (ej.by ).
Was detained on December 8, 2021. Earlier, Sergei had already been detained in the period from March 25 to April 4, 2020.
Some human rights organizations regarded the repression as evidence of a political motive in the persecution of a journalist aimed at forcing him to stop or change the nature of his activities to disseminate information about corruption.
The reason for the prosecution of the journalist, according to Satsuk's colleagues, were high-profile investigations, primarily concerning large-scale corruption in the medical field. Based on the facts obtained, he told about unprecedented «kickbacks» for the supply of expensive equipment; about the purchase of an unregistered vaccine, which was actually tested on Belarusian children; about falsification of data on the spread of COVID-19 in Belarus. And all this with the approval of the control department — the Ministry of Health.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained on November 24, 2021. A message appeared on the telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus that Vitaly allegedly took an active part in mass riots in the area of the hopping center «Riga» in August 2020.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
He was detained on November 9, 2021 on suspicion of a criminal case of group actions grossly violating public order.
He was also accused of receiving telescopic batons, stun guns and other means from abroad.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
He was arrested on September 18, 2021. First, he was sentenced to 10 days of arrest in an administrative case, but then he was not released, but transferred to a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case.
Sergei was charged with organizing or actively participating in group actions that grossly violate public order.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
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