Activist of the branch of the independent trade union of radio-electronic industry workers in Orsha. At one time, he led a school in Vysokoye and headed the district Council of Deputies, but after the establishment of a dictatorship in the country, he left the bureaucracy and eventually joined the human rights sphere. To date, he is 71 years old.
While still in the pre-trial detention center, Vasily’s health condition deteriorated significantly: the most dangerous thing is that he suffers from pain in his only kidney. However, the situation is so critical that drug treatment does not make sense. Need a kidney transplant.
9 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
The case was initiated for distributing and mailing leaflets calling for counting the votes of voters honestly.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained for insulting Lukashenko and for participating in protests.
On February 28, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
2 years imprisonment in a colony
Pavel has a disability, he has stage four cancer. His condition noticeably worsened in custody, the inflammatory process began. In July 2022, during the medical rehabilitation expert commission, Pavel was assigned the first disability group - before that he had a disability of the second group.
Pavel is a Catholic believer. Together with his sister, they constantly went to divine services in the Molodechno church. The young man is very fond of music, he graduated from a music school in the piano class.
At the end of September 2022, Pavel was transferred to the republican hospital on «Volodarsky», where he will stay until the diagnosis for cancer patients. In this hospital, people are not in wards, but in ordinary cells adapted to medical needs.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
22.09.2022 it became known that according to the appeal, Pavel's sentence was reduced from 5 years in a penal colony to 4 years and 9 months.
He was detained for participating in protest actions. He was also accused of receiving telescopic batons, stun guns and other means from abroad.
5 years of imprisonment.
An activist of the Mothers 328 movement, she sent many complaints about the illegal detention of her son and his sentencing under a criminal article.
She was detained for “slander” and sentenced to 4 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to the IWOT. She served her sentence in IUOT-1. On April 12, 2024, a court hearing was held to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a colony for 10 months.
10 months imprisonment
For comments in the Telegram channel. The victims were the chairman of the Volkovysk district executive committee, Mikhail Sitko (the only one who did not file a claim for compensation for moral damage), OMON policemen of the Grodno Internal Affairs Directorate Daria Bondarchuk and Maria Mazurkevich, head of the police department of the Volkovysk district police department Valery Romanchik, head of the Volkovysk district police department Vitaly Osotsky. In total, the victims estimated their moral suffering at 5,000 rubles - while the accused has a pension of 500 rubles. The woman in the last word said that imprisonment would be a "death sentence" for her, but judge Andrei Tolochko sentenced her to 2.5 years in prison.
She was released on September 20, 2022 by pardon.
2.5 years in a general regime colony
According to the prosecution, on May 27, 2021, the police came to Natalia's house. There, a woman "publicly insulted" Lukashenka with the words "we have a fucking state" and "a fucking president", which, according to the state prosecution, committed a crime under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code. An hour after uttering these words, the investigators were already conducting an inspection in the woman's apartment. During it, according to the prosecution, "wishing to express her superiority and permissiveness," Turova tore up the protocol. So the woman "damaged an official document" (part 1 of article 377 of the Criminal Code). She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.
1 year and 1 month in prison .
He was detained on August 4, 2021 as part of a criminal case. The trial was held behind closed doors.
According to the prosecution, on August 25, 2020, “in one of the social networks, under a photo in uniform, the deputy head of the police department of the Kobrin district executive committee posted a comment that contradicts universal morality, established rules of communication between people, which is an abnormal form of speech expression, has a negative assessment of the victim.”
She was pardoned on 03/09/2022.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without a referral .
A resident of Gomel, convicted for insulting a representative of the authorities. Pardoned and released from punishment on July 13, 2022.
1 year and 6 months of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional institution ("chemistry")
journalist of Radio Svaboda. He began working for Svoboda in the early 1990s. Prior to that, he worked as a department head and executive secretary in the Znamya Yunosti newspaper, and was one of the founders of the RID news agency (Advertising and Digest). In the summer of 2020, he actively covered socio-political events in Belarus, hosted the then popular streams of Radio Liberty. In August 2020, he was deprived of accreditation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with most journalists from foreign media.
Oleg was detained on July 16, 2021 during mass searches of independent journalists in Minsk and other cities of Belarus. After administrative arrest, he was released on bail. Arrested on December 23, 2021.
09/21/2022 released by pardon
1.5 years in a general regime colony
Inhabitant of Stolin. He pulled the national flag that hung on the mall. The pole broke, the flag fell. On September 15, 21, he was pardoned.
1 year restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution
According to the prosecution, in one of the telegram channels, a resident of Brest, Yevgeny Poshelyuk, published insulting comments about a judge from Brest. On September 15, 21, the punishment in the form of restriction of freedom with a referral to the IUOT was replaced with "home chemistry".
2 years with referral to an open correctional institution.
A resident of Orsha, has two minor children. Convicted under Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official). He was found guilty of insulting the head of the Orsha Inspectorate for Juvenile Affairs Vishnevsky in a comment in the chat "Orsha 97%" in a telegram. On September 15, 21, he was pardoned.
| 01.06.2021 | I am registered as prone to extremist and other destructive activities |
Sentenced to 1.5 years of restriction of freedom with direction to an open type correctional facility
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