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Vladimir was accused of administering the community on VKontakte “FOR THE ADZINU DZYARZHANU MOVU IN BELARUS!”
In February 2021, Vladimir Butkovets contacted the Gomel Investigative Committee with a request to be questioned as a witness in the case of human rights activist Leonid Sudalenko , to whom he had repeatedly sought legal assistance.
In the summer of 2022, Vladimir was fired from his job as "politically unreliable."
Vladimir was first detained on September 5, 2022, and sentenced to seven days in jail under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for "dissemination of extremist materials."
On February 13, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court sentenced him to three years in a maximum-security penal colony.
The appeal hearing took place on April 18, 2023. The Supreme Court commuted the sentence to three years of restricted freedom in an open correctional facility. Vladimir was released from Pretrial Detention Center No. 3 and remains at large pending his transfer to a correctional facility.
A resident of the Ivatsevichi district. She keeps horses in the village of Khodorki, gives the opportunity to ride them and take photos. This activity of hers is registered as the equestrian farmstead "Razgon".
She was charged under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code for publicly insulting Lukashenko. On September 20, 2023, the woman published a "repentant video" in which she says that she received a punishment in the form of "house arrest".
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The reason for the arrest Vera and her husband Andrey (elder of the Novaya Zemlya Baptist Church) Probably, the published photos from the 2020 protests have become. A criminal case was initiated against Momoiko's family for participating in protest actions.
Andrey and Vera Mamoyko are also well-known musicians who have participated in the recording of several albums of Christian music. At the moment, Mamoiko worked as a developer in one of the IT companies in Belarus.
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The reason for the arrest of Andrei (an elder of the Novaya Zemlya Baptist Church) and his wife Vera was probably the published photos from the 2020 protests. A criminal case was initiated against Momoiko's family for participating in protest actions.
Andrey and Vera Mamoyko are also well-known musicians who have participated in the recording of several albums of Christian music. At the moment, Mamoiko worked as a developer in one of the IT companies in Belarus.
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
It is known that the woman was detained in December 2022. Before the trial, she was under house arrest, and after her detention, she spent three days from 16 to 19 December 2022 in the Pinsk TDF. Natalya Pavlyuchenko was convicted for a comment on the Odnoklassniki social network on March 17, 2021 towards Lukashenka in the Media Polesie group under the news about a patient who died in a Pinsk hospital. The comment was recognized as a deliberate public insult to Lukashenka. At the trial, Natalya pleaded not guilty. She explained that she saw in the group a message about the death of a patient due to the actions of Lukashenka's guards, so she posted the message. But she does not admit guilt, since the comment was not about Lukashenka, but about his guards, and was related not to his personality, but to the actions of the guards.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
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The man was accused of participating in protests in 2020 and going out onto the roadway. "They stood in a chain with other people, clapped their hands, shouted loudly, and shouted various slogans," the court ruling says.
At the rally, police officers pushed Kirill back with a metal shield and cut his head with a rubber truncheon until it bled.
Komarov fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions.
Kirill has a secondary specialized education and is supporting a minor child.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Ilya and his friend Vladislav Mazurov were accused of the fact that on October 27, 2022, the guys, being drunk, tore down the national flag of the Republic of Belarus, hanging on the club building in the a-t. Temny Les. At the same time, they broke the flagpole. Then, returning from the a-t. Temny Les at the place of residence, the guys arranged a photo session with a flag.
According to human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Vladislav and his friend Ilya Kovalev were accused of the fact that on October 27, 2022, the guys, being drunk, tore down the national flag of the Republic of Belarus, hanging on the club building in the a-t. Temny Les. At the same time, they broke the flagpole. Then, returning from the a-t. Temny Les at the place of residence, the guys arranged a photo session with a flag.
According to human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
3 months of arrest.
Pavel Pashukevich was detained for comments in the "Dyatlovo for Life" Telegram chat.
The appeal hearing took place on May 18, 2023. The verdict entered into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024-25.
The young man was convicted for participating in protests. The proof was a photo on Instagram, where he is standing in a T-shirt with "Pahonia", around him other participants hold white-red-white flags.
2.5 years of probation
In the winter of 2023, Ilya was found guilty of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." According to the prosecution, he used his mobile phone to leave comments and upload videos in the Telegram chat "Lida 97%" "with the purpose of inciting a feeling among an unlimited number of users to participate in unauthorized mass events."
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Citizen of Ukraine. The court found Pavel guilty of “undercover activity” in favor of Ukraine. Authorities accused him and two other men of sending data to Ukrainian military intelligence.
Propagandists claim that Kuprienko was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services. Taras Machinsky is accused of transmitting data on the deployment and movement of military equipment in Belarus to Kuprienko, and he, in turn, to the Ukrainian special services. It is reported that Dmitry Solovyanchik was “used in secret.” In the video they say that Dmitry filmed the movement of military equipment in Belarus and asked his relatives about it, and then passed it on to Kuprienko, “not knowing what they were for.”
On the evening of June 28, 2024, sudden information appeared about the release of five political prisoners from Belarusian colonies. The Ukrainian authorities achieved the release of their exchange citizens as prisoners. This is how Natalya Zakharenko, Pavel Kuprienko, Lyudmila Goncharenko, Ekaterina Bryukhanova, as well as Nikolai Shvets, a defendant in the “Machulishchi case,” were released. The terms of the exchange were not disclosed. It is noted that the Vatican took part in the liberation. The released political prisoners were brought to Ukraine on June 28 - their photo from the Zhulyany airport appeared in the media.