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.
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).
She was detained under administrative article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (Petty hooliganism), sentenced to 30 days on October 31, after which she was not released and was again detained, presumably under a criminal article for donations.
It is also known that Tatyana was detained in June 2021 because white-red-white stickers were found in her bag. According to the protocol , Tatyana “during the preventive conversation, screamed loudly, waved her arms, used obscene language, jumped out of her chair, and did not react to the remark made to stop illegal actions.” Tatyana, in turn, denied this through tears, because, in her words, “she had never sworn in her life.”
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