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Maksimuk Dmitry will be tried together with Melnichuk Ilya and Leshkevich Mikhail.
Apparently, everyone is accused of taking part in a post-election protest in Brest on August 10, 2020. This is how security forces reported on the detention of Dmitry Maksimuk 2 months ago. In a video recorded under duress, Dmitry said that in 2020 he was on Masherov Avenue [in Brest] among a crowd that was shouting slogans at the police.
Melnichuk Ilya will be tried together with Maksimuk Dmitry and Leshkevich Mikhail.
Apparently, everyone is accused of taking part in a post-election protest in Brest on August 10, 2020. This is how security forces reported on the detention of Dmitry Maksimuk 2 months ago. In a video recorded under duress, Dmitry said that in 2020 he was on Masherov Avenue [in Brest] among a crowd that was shouting slogans at the police.
Mikhail Leshkevich will be tried together with Ilya Melnychuk and Dmitry Maksymuk.
Apparently, everyone is accused of taking part in a post-election protest in Brest on August 10, 2020. This is how security forces reported on the detention of Dmitry Maksimuk 2 months ago. In a video recorded under duress, Dmitry said that in 2020 he was on Masherov Avenue [in Brest] among a crowd that was shouting slogans at the police.
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Nakanishi Masatoshi is a Japanese citizen. On September 4, 2024, it was reported that hehad been detained in Belarus. He was detained back in July 2024, but the details of his persecution were only revealed now in a BT report. Nakanishi is being held in a KGB pretrial detention facility on charges of "intelligence activity" (Article 358-1 of the Criminal Code). The Japanese citizen faces up to seven years in prison in Belarus.
Immediately after the broadcast of the BT program, Tokyo lodged a protest with the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi stated that the program's content violated human rights.
On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
Vladislav, HR of the IT company PandaDoc, was detained on September 2, 2020, at the company's office by employees of the Financial Investigations Department on charges of fraud.
Following the events of August 2020, PandaDoc founder Nikita Mikado launched the Protect Belarus initiative to support dismissed law enforcement officers who refused to follow illegal orders. The initiative received over 500 applications and attracted public attention.
He was released in October 2020 on bail.
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Dmitry, the director of the IT company PandaDoc, was detained on September 2, 2020, at the company's office on charges of fraud by employees of the Financial Investigations Department.
Following the events of August 2020, PandaDoc founder Nikita Mikado launched the Protect Belarus initiative to support dismissed law enforcement officers who refused to follow illegal orders. The initiative received over 500 applications and attracted public attention.
He was released from custody on October 13, 2020: the measure of restraint was first changed to house arrest, and then to a written undertaking not to leave.
Participant of national, international and personal exhibitions. Member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Belarus. The artist's works are in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Webkunsthaus Gallery of Germany, private collections in the USA, Italy, France, Russia, Holland, Ireland, Poland, Japan, Greece, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Australia, Germany.
Rimashevsky and his wife Lyudmila Shchemeleva were detained around the beginning of October 2024 and two weeks later they were still not released.
She was released together with her husband after serving the sentence imposed by the court.
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In 1987 he graduated from the Academy of Arts in Minsk. Since 1982 he has been a participant of national and international exhibitions. His paintings are in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Art Fund of the Republic of Belarus, the Webkunsthaus Gallery in Germany, the Schaer und Wildbolc Gallery in Switzerland, as well as in private collections in England, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Holland, France, Spain, Israel, Russia, Switzerland, Poland, Turkey, Italy, Japan, Ukraine, the USA, China, the Czech Republic, Syria, and Lebanon.
Rimashevsky and his wife Lyudmila Shchemeleva were detained around the beginning of October 2024 and two weeks later they were still not released.
He was released together with his wife after serving the sentence imposed by the court.