A taxi driver who was harshly detained by riot police at the end of January 2023 while he was waiting for an order near the bus station. Friends had been waiting for Roman since “days”, as they knew that he was detained for old likes on the Odnoklassniki social network. But then it turned out that the man was detained under Art. 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 21, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
According to estimates, the human rights defender will be released at the end of 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 17.04.2023:
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
On the evening of March 27, Alina went to the Investigative Committee to testify as a witness in a criminal case on participation in peaceful protests in Minsk and was never released. After that, she spent several months in jail.
In conclusion, a number of chronic diseases worsened at Gorova. The security forces did not allow the detainee to be hospitalized, and in the Mogilev prison she was denied medical assistance, despite poor tests. The prison doctor refused to treat her with antibiotics and hospitalize her. On May 30, she was scheduled for 1 year of "home chemistry".
Already on June 13, she was detained again. She is charged with another episode of participation in a peaceful protest in Minsk in 2020. According to human rights activists , Alina is under house arrest pending trial.
She will be judged in the court of the Kruglyansky district on August 10, 2023. Together with the girl, Alesya Frigina and Pavel Talanov are involved in the case.
The Court of Appeal, which took place on August 29, 2023, overturned the judgment of the Kruglyansky Court of May 30, 2023. The case will be sent for a new trial to another district court of the Mogilev region.
Anatoly is 55 years old. He studied at the Minsk Radio Engineering College, and then went to work at the regional communications center in Baranovichi. In 1996, he became one of the founders of the local newspaper Step. This is one of the first private newspapers in the city and once one of the most popular, its circulation reached 11 thousand copies. Now the newspaper has been reformatted into a purely advertising one. Anatoly became an entrepreneur. It deals in medical products and other health products. He is presented with the fact that he left comments in the telegram against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the violence of the security forces.
10.10.2023
в судебное заседание 23 мая 2023 года к 10 часам 30 минутам не явился обвиняемый Войтеховский А.В
ПОСТАНОВИЛ:
объявить розыск Войтеховского Анатолия Владимировича.
Копию постановления направить прокурору Советского района города
Минска для организации розыска обвиняемого.
При установлении места нахождения обвиняемого Войтеховского
Анатолия Владимировича, изменить ему меру пресечения с залога на
заключение под стражу, водворив его в СИЗО№1 города Минска.
20 year old Vladislav was accused of taking photos and videos of military equipment, military personnel, as well as a military airfield in Bobruisk from February 24 to February 25, 2022.
Then Vladislav forwarded at least 9 video files and photos to a telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 27.03.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Vitaly was convicted of participating in protests in Minsk in 2020 and sentenced to restricted freedom in an open prison. He was identified from photographs and videos found online, as well as from phone records provided to law enforcement by his mobile phone provider.
Trial outcome 06.04.2023
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the case materials , in the fall of 2020, the father and his daughter, while on the roadway of Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk, acting as a group of people, and with other people, "took an active part in group actions that grossly violated public order and involved clear disobedience to the lawful demands of a police officer, disrupted the operation of transport and enterprises, blocked and obstructed the path of vehicles, including public passenger transport."
They were identified from photographs taken at the scene.
They were kept in custody until the trial.
Trial outcome 05.04.2023
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the case materials , in the fall of 2020, the father and his daughter, while on the roadway of Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk, acting as a group of people, and with other people, "took an active part in group actions that grossly violated public order and involved clear disobedience to the lawful demands of a police officer, disrupted the operation of transport and enterprises, blocked and obstructed the path of vehicles, including public passenger transport."
They were identified from photographs taken at the scene.
Alexei was convicted in the spring of 2023 under the article "Desecration of state symbols" for tearing down a flag and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open-type institution.
Trial outcome 05.04.2023
1 year restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, approximately 71 ruble of compensation.
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