Resident of Postavy and owner of the training hall "ReZhim".
It is known that in 2021, Vitaly’s house was searched; it was carried out in connection with a criminal case for insulting the delegates of the Supreme Council from the Postavy district. The insult allegedly took place on one of the social networks.
In 2024, the Investigative Committee began “special proceedings” against Vitaly. The special jurisdiction mechanism allows the Belarusian authorities to try defendants in absentia if they remain abroad.
He was detained on September 9, 2020, Ilya Salei’s apartment was searched, and he himself was taken for questioning to the Investigative Committee.
The Investigative Committee stated that Ilya Salei is suspected of a criminal offense under Part 3 of Art. 361 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On September 11 he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-1 in Minsk. On October 16, the preventive measure against Ilya Salei was changed to house arrest. On April 16, 2021, Ilya Saleya’s preventive measure was changed from house arrest to bail. Salei remained in the status of an accused and was obliged to appear when summoned by investigative authorities and the court. Was forced to leave the Republic of Belarus.
Kirill Ivanov, a Minsk resident, was sentenced to two years of "house arrest" for a comment about a border service employee. A criminal case was opened against him for a comment in the fall of 2021 in the Telegram channel "Lukashenko's Mustache" under a video about the head of the communications department of the State Border Committee. While serving his sentence, correspondence was found on the man's phone in which the Minsk resident expressed support for Ukraine. They began to put a lot of pressure on Kirill and threatened to send him to a penal colony. Due to the threat of danger, the man left Belarus.
Trial outcome date unknown
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In March 2024, a criminal case was opened against Ilya as part of a special proceeding, within the framework of which in June of the same year he was convicted in absentia for participating in an “extremist formation” - “Rudobelskaya show-off”, sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment and a fine of 700 basic units.
Trial outcome 24.06.2024
8 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 700 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
On October 11, 2023, she was detained for 10 days under an administrative charge, after which a criminal case was opened for participation in the 2020 protests. She was released on her own recognizance. She was forced to leave Belarus.
Vadim Cherevko was detained in December 2023. In the “repentance video” on December 18, the detainee says that he has the position of deputy director for development of a company engaged in the design of control systems and unmanned systems. The man was forced to admit to participating in the protests and also say that marijuana was found at his home.
Mikalai was detained in November 2023 as part of a criminal case opened after a protest that took place in Minsk on August 28, 2020 against the results of the presidential elections and violence in the country. He was convicted of participating in the protest under the article "on organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
In August 2024, a court hearing in absentia was held as part of a special proceeding against Mikalai “on replacing the restriction of freedom without sending him to an open-type correctional facility.”
Trial outcome 29.01.2024
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
On January 11, 2024, in Volkovysk, a trial began under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code (active participation in actions that grossly violate public order) for 10 men at once.
Trial outcome 19.01.2024
1 year 10 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In October 2021, he was detained by GUBOPiK officers. First, Stas spent six months in a pre-trial detention center, and the court sentenced him to 2 years of “chemistry with direction” for participating in the 2020 protests and for “insulting” Lukashenko.
Trial outcome:
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
Grodno human rights activist and journalist Vladimir Khilmanovich has not lived in Belarus for two and a half years. But on December 1, 2023, a search was conducted in the apartment of Vladimir Khilmanovich’s wife, where he lived from 2014 to 2021, and a criminal case was opened.
Trial outcome 19.08.2024
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 1000 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
Appeal 25.10.2024
the sentence was upheld.
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