Belarusian state, political and public figure. Minister of Culture of the Republic of Belarus. Member of the Coordinating Council for organizing the process of overcoming the political crisis. Head of the People's Anti-Crisis Administration.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Pavel Latushko, Olga Kovalkova, Maria Moroz, Sergei Dylevsky were tried in the same criminal case. In total, they were charged with 12 articles.
Pavel Latushko refused the lawyer assigned to him. According to him, the Investigative Committee is trying to create the appearance of legality, but it does not work well. He also demanded to receive a copy of the decision to initiate a criminal case or to recognize him as a suspect. But I did not receive the corresponding document.
Trial outcome 06.03.2023
18 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions (trial in absentia).
Candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus in the 2020 elections. After the announcement of the official results, protests began. Tikhanovskaya announced the usurpation of power by the incumbent president and called for new and fair elections. On August 11, 2020, Tikhanovskaya left Belarus. Her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, a blogger and politician, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Pavel Latushko, Olga Kovalkova, Maria Moroz, Sergei Dylevsky were tried in the same criminal case. In total, they were charged with 12 articles.
On January 11, Svyatlana Tikhanovskaya applied to the Minsk City Court demanding that she be granted the right to familiarize herself with the materials of the case in her trial in absentia. She also notified the court that she was going to exercise her right to a lawyer. She also wrote to the Minsk City and Republican Bar Associations that she wanted to contact the lawyer assigned to her and work out a position.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya stressed that she considers the procedure of trial in absentia a violation of basic human rights and freedoms.
Stepan is a Belarusian journalist, blogger, director, TV presenter, author and creator of the NEXTA channels on socio-political topics.
In 2020, a criminal case was opened against Stepan under a number of articles, including "organizing mass riots" and "inciting hatred." As part of the special proceedings, in May 2023, he was convicted in absentia and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony. According to the Belarusian state news agency BelTA, the defendants in the "case" are accused of committing at least 1,586 crimes, and a claim for more than 30 million rubles has been filed.
Earlier, the KGB included Stepan in the “terrorist list”, and the NEXTA channel in Belarus was recognized as a “terrorist organization”.
in the telegram channel of the pro-government department, she is called the administrator of the “extremist formation Black Book of Belarus.” Yanina also leads the YouTube channel "Dzikae palyavanne".
A media manager, in the telegram channel of the pro-government department he is called the administrator of the “extremist formation Black Book of Belarus”.
Nadezhda was convicted for participating in a protest held on September 6, 2020 in Grodno against the falsification of the presidential elections and violence in the country. She was sentenced to serve her sentence in an open-type correctional facility, after which she had to leave Belarus.
In 2024, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Nadezhda as part of a special proceeding and she had been convicted in absentia under the article on “assistance to extremist activity.”
Trial outcome 10.03.2021
3 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Inga was detained in October 2022 under an administrative article, after serving her term, she was not released. In 2020, Inga was detained under an administrative article for participating in protests, but the case was closed due to the statute of limitations.
Alexander actively participated in the 2020 protests, supported Viktor Babariko's headquarters and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's team. During the pandemic, he organized the collection and purchase of protective equipment for the 2nd City Clinical Hospital of Grodno.
On March 18, 2022, Alexander was arrested right at his workplace. On May 19, the man was sentenced to two years of "chemistry" under Article 368.1 of the Criminal Code (public insult to Lukashenko). On the same day, due to the threat of arrest and persecution, the family left Belarus.
Trial outcome 19.05.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
The reason for the detention of Sergei was a photo from the book "I'm leaving." According to the results of the examination of the phone, another photo with a different date was found. As a result of the case, there were 2 episodes of participation in protests.
Trial outcome 01.11.2022:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
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