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A special forces detachment burst into Alexey’s home, they knocked the man to the floor and one security officer sat with his knees on Samoiluk’s body (with one knee on Samoiluk’s neck).
The pro-government channel claims that Samoiluk “threw stones at the police during the riots.” In that publication on the same channel they also posted photographs: in one picture there are two people in hoods and masks, one holding a Ukrainian flag, the second a sheet of paper with the text “Brest residents with Ukraine.”
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Alexander's name appeared in the court schedule. The man is accused of donating to help Ukraine and to an “extremist group.”
It is noteworthy that the man made a donation in support of the “extremist formation” before May 2021, when there were no extremist formations in Belarus at all. Now the man faces from five to ten years in prison. The trial will begin on March 19 in the Minsk City Court.
Alexander has a small business in Molodechno: as an individual entrepreneur he is engaged in cargo transportation on his own bus. He is raising two children: a young daughter who is finishing sixth grade, and a son who should now be in high school.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
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Marina is a Belarusian-speaking IT specialist from EPAM who is also involved in creative work. She writes articles for the Belarusian Wikipedia, makes illustrations, translates into Belarusian, and writes poetry. After the start of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, she moved to Georgia, but then returned to Belarus for unknown reasons. Soon after, she was detained as part of a criminal case and convicted under the articles “financing extremist activity” and “financing or other financial support of war.”
She was detained on January 23, 2024 during a massive raid by security forces on relatives of political prisoners and people who helped them.
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Alexey Kiselyov was detained from Verkhnedvinsk in the criminal case of the “Personnel Reserve for New Belarus”. His “repentance” video was published on the morning of March 13 by a propaganda telegram channel. Alexey is an employee of the Verkhnedvinsk regional executive committee.
On February 14, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against representatives and participants of the “Personnel Reserve for New Belarus” initiative announced by the Joint Transitional Cabinet. The ONT TV channel later showed 14 people detained in this case. Propagandist Igor Tur said that together with the security forces, he listened to lectures for participants in the initiative for a year.
The “Personnel Reserve for a New Belarus” program was launched by the Joint Transitional Cabinet in November 2022. The goal of the project was to train professionals who would be able to work in government positions and carry out reforms.
On February 14, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against representatives and participants of the “Personnel Reserve for New Belarus” initiative announced by the Joint Transitional Cabinet. The ONT TV channel later showed 14 people detained in this case. Propagandist Igor Tur said that together with the security forces, he listened to lectures for participants in the initiative for a year.
On February 26, pro-government channels published a video with the participation of Alexander Kuksa, where he admitted to participating in this program.
The “Personnel Reserve for a New Belarus” program was launched by the Joint Transitional Cabinet in November 2022. The goal of the project was to train professionals who would be able to work in government positions and carry out reforms.
On July 19, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
On 13.08.2024 a new trial of Alexander should begin under Article 361-3, Part 2
According to a pro-government Telegram channel, she was detained along with her son for participating in protests in 2020. On March 6, 2024, she was convicted under an administrative article ( Article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus - Petty hooliganism). After that, she was charged under criminal articles.
According to the case materials , on February 27, 2022, the man filmed flights of military aircraft and sent the video to the so-called. "extremist formation". Where exactly the video was sent was not specified.
In a pro-government video, Ivan says that he was detained for “unfriendly” comments regarding government officials and police officers on Youtube and Telegram. According to the security forces, he was also registered in the Peramoga plan.
An EPAM employee. It is known that Kirill was involved in sketching (a modern form of fine art): his last works were published in the fall, and in January he congratulated his subscribers on the New Year. He was detained after arriving in Belarus from Montenegro. Convicted for donations.
On May 28, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
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On June 18, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
On September 15, 2023, 57-year-old Gennady Vasilyuk was fined for "distributing extremist materials." Subscriptions to "extremist" materials were found on Gennady's Odnoklassniki page. In addition, Vasilyuk was fired from the locomotive depot "by mutual agreement."
On December 7, 2023, Gennady was detained as part of a criminal case for "slandering Lukashenko" (Part 1 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code) and placed in custody in a pretrial detention center. The case was heard on February 22 and 26, 2024.
The man was accused of posting the "like" reaction on the Odnoklassniki social network on June 8, 9, and 17, 2022, under three videos featuring economist Yaroslav Romanchuk.
Gennady admitted his guilt and reported that on the specified days in June he went to a village in the Zhabinka district, which is confirmed by an extract from a mobile operator. The man uses a push-button phone, so he could not log into Odnoklassniki in the village.
Prosecutor Yegor Kronda considered Gennady's guilt to be fully proven and requested one year and six months of imprisonment for him.
Gennady was convicted for the second time on September 16, 2024, for participating in protests. His wife and three other people were convicted along with him. According to the court, the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, whistled, clapped their hands, demonstrated white-red-white banners, and went out onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
The court sentenced Gennady to one and a half years in prison, but taking into account the unserved previous (political) term, the final sentence was only 2 years in a general regime prison.