Igor Korney was detained on July 17 in Minsk and arrested for 10 days; he was in a detention center on Akrestsin Street. A search was carried out at his home. After 10 days of arrest, he was not released and was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
Igor worked for a long time as a journalist for Radio Liberty, is known as an essayist, author of texts about the cultural and historical heritage of Belarus, and travel blogger. Soon after his arrest, Igor’s family went abroad.
According to the indictment, Igor actively wrote “negative materials insulting the head of state, government officials, journalists and citizens who do not support the unconstitutional change of power. In addition, in his articles he gave a false picture of the economic, social, military and international situation of the Republic of Belarus.”
Allegedly, from June 1 to July 14, 2023, he posted at least 54 information materials on BAJ resources. Soon after this he was detained.
On 06/07/2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
3 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Kirill has served in the police since 2007. Detective officer, left the authorities in August 2020 and moved to IT. It is known that he was detained on February 19, 2023, right at the border: he lived in Poland for six months, and came to Brest to visit his wife and small child.
Little is known about the criminal case against Kirill: the trial was held behind closed doors. It is only known that the case was connected with the “Black Book of Belarus”.
An appeal court hearing is scheduled to take place on October 10, 2023.
8 years in a maximum security colony...
The man worked as an ambulance doctor in Baranavichy and was placed in custody pending trial. At first, he was accused of "rehabilitating Nazism" because of a repost that compared leaflets from the time of Nazi Germany and leaflets from modern Russia in pairs. But in the middle of the trial, the charge was reclassified as "inciting hatred" towards Russians and Russians.
On September 22, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
2,5 года лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
5 years imprisonment in a colony
The basis for the criminal case were comments in one of the chats, recognized by security forces as extremist materials in May 2021.
According to Alexander's acquaintances abroad, in May 2023, after the criminal case had already been opened, he left for Poland, where he stayed for about a month. Then his elderly mother called him and said that an investigator had called her and threatened to search for her son. It was promised that if Kulikov returned, he would be given a punishment that did not involve imprisonment.
After some time, Kulikov decided to return to Belarus and was detained. He stopped communicating while crossing the border. Another administrative violation protocol was drawn up against him (Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and a criminal case was opened.
On 01.07.2024, a trial was held to replace Alexander's regime and he made the decision to transfer the political prisoner to prison regime .
It has become known that Kulikov is going to be tried again. This time he is accused under three articles: participation in an extremist group (Article 361, note 1, part 3), participation in an armed group or armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state (Article 361, note 3, part 1) and undergoing training or other preparation for participation in extremist activity (Article 361, note 5). On December 22, the press service of the Moscow Regional Court reported that on December 20, Kulikov was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Together with the previous punishment, the total term of imprisonment for the man will be 4 years and 6 months of imprisonment in a general regime.
In March 2024, it became known that the prosecutor appealed the sentence of political prisoner Alexander Kulikov from Mogilev, who was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. According to the court's decision, he was given an additional year and a half to his term .
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
In the summer and autumn of 2021, Dmitry twice marked “Class” on posts in the “ Stop Luka ” public in Odnoklassniki, due to which the publications became visible in the feed on the Mogilev resident’s page. The posts contained information about the activities of Alexander Lukashenko, which, according to the court , was slanderous and disgracing the personality of the head of the power vertical.
2 years in prison
2 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution.
Before the arrest, the young man worked as a truck driver, he had previously graduated from a vocational school in Oshmyany as a driver.
According to the website of the Prosecutor General's Office, from April to November 2022, Yakimov expressed a desire, and then indicated his intention to join one of the units of the battalion (regiment) named after Kastus Kalinouski.
To this end, he allegedly provided his personal data for admission to an armed formation. At the same time, he collected information about the places of purchase of military ammunition, uniforms and other equipment for use in combat conditions.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
5 years in prison in a penal colony
Oleg was tried for painting several walls in the entrance of a multi-story building in February 2023. The inscriptions included insults to A. Lukashenko.
Kardash was detained for the first time in March 2023. And they were tried three times under administrative charges. Each time he was awarded a day's detention. The first trial took place on March 9, 2023 because a man’s video from August 2020 with the “TUT.BY” logo was found on Odnoklassniki. The second trial was on March 17 for the fact that cutting boards with “an image of a dog in a helmet with the SS emblem, a board with the image of a man in a helmet with the SS emblem” were found at the man’s house - that is, Kardash thus allegedly “kept for the purpose of distribution objects with the image Nazi symbols." The third trial took place on March 29 due to the fact that he shared a video on the Odnoklassniki social network: the video had the Nexta logo (there was a harsh suppression of the Minsk protests that took place on the night of August 9-10, 2020). Kardash shared this video on August 14, 2020.
On September 12, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Former Assistant Prosecutor of the Glusk District.
In the video published by the Investigative Committee, Prytulenko said that he sent the data of an employee of the prosecutor's office of the Glusk district and a doctor to the chat bot of the Black Book of Belarus.
According to Nasha Niva, in 2005 Konstantin Prytulenko was an investigator, and later an assistant to the district prosecutor. Where Prytulenko worked before his arrest is unknown.
Initially, the process was open, but, at the request of the injured officials and security forces, it was closed.
In total, more than a dozen people pass as victims, including the former deputy chairman of the Mogilev city council, "the main ideologist of the city" Alla Galushko. Other victims include members of election commissions, prosecutors, law enforcers and other government officials.
6 years in prison in a strict regime colony.
3 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
He was detained on 02/23/2023 early in the morning at the exit from the entrance, when Kirill was going to work. After 15 days of administrative arrest, he was not released. As a result, they were charged with financing the activities of an extremist group. At the trial, 6 donations of 10 dollars each were presented to various aid organizations.
4 years in prison
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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