Deputy Director of the Minsk Bicycle Society. He was detained on November 29, 2022 at work, then he was taken to an apartment to conduct a search there. During the search, law enforcement officers seized a phone and a laptop.
First, Maxim was sentenced to 11 days of administrative arrest, then he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case.
He lived in Minsk and worked at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Cardiology. In October 2022, armed law enforcement officers broke into the apartment, laid Anton on the floor, then took him to the District Department of Internal Affairs. He was detained for participating in protest actions in September 2020 in Grodno. Then the guy studied at the Grodno Medical University.
Trial outcome 05.01.2023:
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He was severely beaten during his arrest in September 2022. At first, Denis was convicted under administrative article 19.1. and awarded a fine of 30 basic units. After this, a criminal case was immediately opened for participation in the 2020 protests. On December 22, 2022, he was sentenced to “domestic chemicals,” but political persecution and threats against Denis did not stop. He was not registered, and in April 2023 he was again detained for 30 days and served in a temporary detention center in the Minsk region. The prosecutor issued the sanction. After his release, he was forced to leave Belarus.
Denis has a daughter born in 2011.
Trial outcome 22.12.2022:
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction
The verdict was delivered in absentia. The defendant himself was not present at the trial, as he has been abroad since the fall of 2020. This is the first verdict in Belarus in a criminal case, which was investigated within the framework of "special proceedings". Ex-chairman of BSSF Alexandra Herasimenia and executive director of the fund Alexander Opeikin were found guilty of calling for sanctions and other actions aimed at harming the national security of Belarus.
Trial outcome 26.12.2022
12 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions (trial in absentia).
The verdict was delivered in absentia. The defendant herself was not present at the trial, as she has been abroad since the fall of 2020. This is the first verdict in Belarus in a criminal case, which was investigated within the framework of "special proceedings". Ex-chairman of BSSF Alexandra Herasimenia and executive director of the fund Alexander Opeikin were found guilty of calling for sanctions and other actions aimed at harming the national security of Belarus.
Trial outcome 26.12.2022
12 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).
Convicted for participating in protests in September 2020. Before the verdict, he was in custody in SIZO-1 for 2.5 months. After the verdict, Vladimir managed to leave the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 01.12.2022
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 10.02.2023
unknown.
Regime change trial 14.01.2025
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
A former OMON fighter who is now fighting as a volunteer in Ukraine. Potekhin is a former military man. He was the one named as the perpetrator of the attack on the OMON base. Both are associated with the "Supra" initiative, which the Lukashenko regime has declared terrorist.
Kulazhenko and Potekhina were charged under eight articles of the Criminal Code.
The property of Kulazhenko and Potehin, worth a total of approximately 240 thousand rubles, has been seized.
Trial outcome 23.12.2024
23 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 1000 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
journalist, politician. Member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, founder of the newspaper "Vitebsky Courier", founder of the organization "Our House".
Trial outcome 08.07.2024
12 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 12000 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
Appeal 25.10.2024
unknown (trial in absentia).
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