It is known that Nadezhda has two adult daughters and a minor son with disabilities.
On March 1, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Yashkin was detained in May 2023 and placed in custody pending trial.
According to the case materials , the man posted comments containing slander and insults against Lukashenko, called for the seizure of state power and a violent change in the constitutional system in the country.
In addition, in August 2020, the man twice made donations in support of the detainees.
4 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Mashuta did not admit guilt at the court hearing. He said that he came to Sovetskaya Square in Grodno to go to one of the shops. There I saw a large number of people who had white-red-white and red-green paraphernalia with them. He decided that this was an event in support of Alexander Lukashenko, joined the crowd and took part in the street procession. From the case materials it became known that a photograph of Nikita Mashuta with the national flag on the roadway to Yanka Kupala Avenue was found in one of the telegram channels. His guilt is also confirmed by a video recording of a massive street procession with white-red-white symbols,
2.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
According to the prosecution , Alexander Goncharov transferred funds through a bank transfer to finance the activities of the “Kastus Kalinovsky Regiment.”
5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.
The man was detained after 2021. Botvich was charged under two articles - "espionage" and "intelligence activity". We are talking about a 59-year-old man who, although he does not have Belarusian citizenship, grew up and lived in Belarus. This is Botvich Sergei Ivanovich - he owned companies whose total turnover amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and some of them were registered in the EU.
Both the man's sentence and the case's plot are unknown, but he is definitely in prison now, since other forms of punishment are not provided for under these articles.
Although Sergei does not have Belarusian citizenship, he grew up and lived in Belarus, he owned companies with a total turnover of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and some of them were registered in the EU.
Sergey was involved in business in Belarus, Russia, France and Lithuania — mainly tourism and wholesale export of coal from Eastern Europe to the Baltic and Western Europe. The total turnover of Botvich's companies in the "fat" years was several hundred thousand dollars a year. In 2014, Botvich participated in a project to build a charcoal plant near Svisloch. Another of his major projects was the purchase of the Bogudenki estate near Svisloch for 30 thousand dollars.
The coal plant was never built, and a criminal case was opened against Botvich in June 2018. The proceedings were terminated in accordance with paragraph 5, part 1, article 246 of the Criminal Procedure Code - most likely, the man left the country. Almost all of the Lithuanian ones went bankrupt, the French and Russian ones do not operate. The Bogudenki estate was taken away from him and it is still hopelessly on sale.
Trial outcome 15.11.2022: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The man was accused of writing several online comments about A. Lukashenko, which were considered a “public insult.” The meeting was held at the Baranovichi State College of Light Industry. As a result, Tatsin was sentenced to 1 year in prison and handcuffed in front of the college students, according to a state television report.
On January 30, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
A resident of the village of Novy Sverzhen was accused of writing a comment in the direction of Lukashenko under a publication in a telegram channel, which the court considered offensive, while at work in the cabin of a commuter train.
During the trial, a witness, an assistant driver, was interviewed, who said that Denis Nosov did not inform him about the written comment.
After the verdict was announced, the man was released in the courtroom. His phone was confiscated “as a means of committing a crime.”
Denis has a secondary specialized education and works as an electric train driver for regional lines in Minsk.
2 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
3.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
unknown years of imprisonment in a penal colony
It is known that Oleg was detained in an administrative case on March 21, 2023 and accused of producing, distributing or storing extremist materials under Art. 19.11 Code of Administrative Offences.
Previously, Oleg was involved in social and cultural activities, at one time he led the Gomel “cleanse”, and as a writer he published a lot in magazines and newspapers.
The trial took place behind closed doors.
On 03/05/2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Yarmoshuk was first detained in this case on March 23, 2023, and was held for three days. Then they released him, but on June 11, 2023 they detained him again and took him into custody.
According to the indictment, on March 1, 2022, Yarmoshuk downloaded several files from the ItArmy of Ukraine website that allow DDoS attacks. Then he launched the program on his computer “at least 8 times,” which “broke the protection system against DDoS attacks” and “the operation of unidentified Internet resources of the Russian Federation was disrupted.” Thus, according to the state prosecution, Yarmoshuk “used malicious, potentially dangerous programs.” Also on August 19, 2020, Yarmoshuk transferred about $60 to the BySOL initiative via Facebook. 7 months later (March 12, 2021), the Belarusian authorities recognized the BySOL Foundation as an “extremist formation.” The fact that at the time of the money transfer BySOL was not an “extremist formation” does not bother the state prosecution.
On January 12, 2024, an appeal hearing was held at the court. The verdict came into force.
4 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The reasons for Heinrich’s detention are unknown, but it seems that the priest has become yet another religious figure affected by the regime’s repressions against religious communities in Belarus.
Heinrich is about 70 years old, suffered a heart attack and recently had gastric surgery due to cancer; he needs medical supervision and constant medication.
On December 6, 20 days have passed since the arrest of the rector, Fr. Genrikh Okolotovich. During this time, he should have either been criminally charged or released. And, according to sources of the publication Katolik.life., the priest was chosen as a measure of detention in the form of detention, that is, he was charged.
The article of the Criminal Code has not yet been named, but the period for filing charges of 20 days from the moment of arrest is provided for a number of “anti-state” articles - such as espionage and treason. But what exactly the priest is charged with remains unknown.
On March 10, 2023, he was convicted under administrative article 19.11, part 2, for the distribution, production, storage, and transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activities. After which a criminal case was opened.
On March 12, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Due to the closed nature of the trial, the essence of the case is still unknown. It is only known that Vladimir Romanovsky was detained in Bobruisk during the “feeding the pigeons” event on May 9, 2020. Then riot police detained about 15 people in the city.
According to the verdict , Romanovsky has now been found guilty of publicly insulting Lukashenko on social networks and has been sentenced to imprisonment.
On 02/06/2024, the court's appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
On January 23, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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