Detained for 2020 comments in telegram chats.
On December 22, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Most likely the sentence involves imprisonment.
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On September 12, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
In the summer of 2023, the court found Pavel guilty under Art. 293 part 3 of the Criminal Code (mass riots) for the fact that in August 2020 he published data on Telegram on how to make a “Molotov cocktail”. At that time, the guy had just finished school.
1 year 2 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
On December 1, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
7 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony
As it became known , according to the prosecution, on August 23, 2021, Alexander wrote a comment about Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko. The comment was under the news of the Belarus Brain channel. The commentary stated that Golovchenko and Russian official Mishustin “discussed integration documents.”
The message was assessed under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official). The prosecution requested one year in prison and a fine of 50 b.a. for this episode.
Another message was written in October 2021 in the “Luhtavikings” telegram chat. There the prosecution saw an insult to Lukashenko, and the prosecutor asked for another year in prison under Part 1 of Art. 368 CC.
On December 8, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
On December 26, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
1 year 8 months imprisonment in a colony
Ukrainian, living in Belarus since 2013. In 2012-2013, Ivan served in the intelligence units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, BelTA claims. The investigation believes that in January of this year Likholat got in touch with the SBU, where he was instructed to blow up the railway tracks. He involved two Grodno residents who had professional mine-explosive skills for the task. Pukhalsky was detained when he took an explosive device from a cache in the Kobrin district and transported it to the Tolochin district. Likholat and Borodich were detained in Grodno.
The investigation believes that in January 2023, Ivan Likholat contacted the SBU, where he was instructed to blow up the railway tracks. He involved two Grodno residents who had professional mine-explosive skills for the task. One of them was Ivan Borodich.
Likholat and Borodich were detained in Grodno.
Author of the telegram channel "Silver Age. Football of Belarus" and ex-employee of "Narodnaya Gazeta". He is accused under Part 1 of Art. 361-4 of the Criminal Code (promoting extremist activities). The circumstances of the case are unknown to human rights activists.
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According to pro-government channels, he was detained for making more than 1,200 comments. It is noteworthy that the comments shown by the security forces were written primarily in the Belarusian language and were mainly aimed at supporting Ukraine. All comments shown are from YouTube.
In the video on the security forces’ channels, five SOBR soldiers attack him, and later the man looks beaten: he has a badly black eye and his head is scratched until it bleeds.
Stepan works as a worker at one of the private enterprises in Grodno. The man also regularly goes to the gym and keeps himself in good physical shape, judging by the photos on social networks.
5.5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security prison.
He didn’t buy a ticket on the trolleybus while he was drunk and cursed the president with obscene words. The controller called the police and Sergei was detained.
2.6 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.
According to the prosecution, on the evening of July 31, 2023, Kondratyev, while near the building of one of the dormitories of the Minsk Civil Aviation Plant, grabbed the national flag mounted on the facade of the building by the cloth, and then tore it off the mount, breaking the pole, which is part of the flag. Then, twisting the flag, he took it with him. By doing this, he harmed the authority of the Republic of Belarus.
And material damage to the plant amounted to 130 rubles 82 kopecks.
The man was “identified” from the CCTV footage and was detained on August 14, placed in a pre-trial detention center until trial. It was alleged in court that Alexander was intoxicated.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
Father of political prisoner Nikita Zolotarev . Mikhail was detained on August 8, 2023 and sentenced to 15 days of arrest under Art. 19.11 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (distribution of extremist materials). After the first arrest, he was not released and was sentenced under the same article to another 15 days, and then to another 15.
On September 22, 2023, on the eve of his release after serving his third administrative arrest in a row, he was again found guilty of committing an offense and sent to a detention center for the fourth time.
On October 24, by decision of the KGB, the closed Telegram chat “Gomel for Nikita Zolotorev” was recognized as an “extremist formation,” and its only designated participant was the father of the political prisoner, Mikhail Lapunov.
Human rights activists learned that some time after serving administrative arrests, Mikhail was taken into custody. As of the summer of 2024, he is being held in a pre-trial detention center .
A former military man, a resident of Minsk, who was forced by the special services under torture to participate in a provocation, within the framework of which the latter contacted representatives of BYPOL and offered to carry out direct actions. All negotiations and correspondence were recorded.
On March 19, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
19 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions.
Detained for donations. There is a child under 1 year of age.
On February 6, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
5 years imprisonment in a maximum security colony
Svetlana is a pensioner and cycling activist from Gomel, chairman of the regional public association “VeloGomel”. Previously, Korol worked as a teacher-organizer. In 2020, a woman joined the Gomel Coordination Council.
According to Viasna , security forces detained Korol in 2020 and conducted “preventive conversations.” At home, Svetlana has an old mother and a husband with cancer, whom she cares for.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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