The circumstances of the case are still unknown to human rights defenders, since the court session was closed. It is known that Konstantin was detained in early November 2022 and was in pre-trial detention center № 3 all the time.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Operator. Pavel collaborated with independent media. Earlier, the journalist was repeatedly detained while covering political actions in Belarus, including after 2020. As part of the criminal case, he was detained on February 9 after a search of his house, during which mobile phones and a video camera were removed. Subsequently, it became known that Pavel was charged under Part 1 of Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code.
| 21.02.2023 | Detained on January 20, 23, placed in the Zaslavsky District Department of Internal Affairs, at 01.01. F. Skorina, 20. They detained the KGB, near the car, in the district of Zaslavl. I received the first 15 days for a repost from the Radio Liberty website from 2017. |
4 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Previously, he was detained under an administrative article for participating in protests. Pro-government telegram channels reported on Andrei's detention. On the “repentant video” , the guy says that he was detained for distributing personal data of police officers, judges and called people to violent actions.
It is also reported that the man "left more than 2 thousand extremist messages, of which at least 100 records contain signs of violations of the law."
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Karpeshko and two of his friends had their own private chat for three people. After the beginning of the military invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine, in March 2022, Michael left a comment in which he wrote about the experience that wars could begin on the territory of Belarus. For this message, the man was detained and convicted.
Witnesses at the trial were two other chat participants – friends of Karpeshko, who had previously been brought to administrative responsibility under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus.
At the trial, the materials of the Karpeshko case indicated that the man had left a message in a «public chat in Telegram».
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
He was detained for a chat-roulette conversation with Yuri Komar.
During the conversation, he asked Ukrainians for weapons, and to Komar's question: «Are you going to kill supporters of the current government?»; he answered: «Yes».
Dmitry was detained together with a friend — white-red-white flags were put on their heads, and then they were forced to wash the floor with these flags.
An appeal hearing was held on September 19, 2023. The verdict came into force.
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An employee of the Minsk Motor Plant. Detained on November 16, 2022, allegedly for participating in protest actions. Convicted on February 28, 2023.
2,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Former police officer Alexander Sazonov and Evgeniy Vasilevsky were detained almost a year ago - on February 27, 2022 in Minsk, and on March 1, both were punished with administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding mass events).
The Pervomaisky District Court of Minsk sentenced Sazonov to 13 days of arrest and Vasilevsky to 15 days for participating in a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The essence of the accusation is still unknown. Probably, we are talking about the transfer of personal data of security forces to protest chats.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with a general regime.
Dmitry was detained on September 21, 2022 by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption. He was forced to read poems that he himself wrote on camera and admit that in August 2020 he went to protest actions against the current government of the Republic of Belarus, and wrote insults in messages on Facebook and VKontakte. Also in the news in the telegram channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus, screenshots from the man's social networks appeared criticizing the actions of the authorities.
Dmitry is a children's poet and novelist, winner of the contest «Pisateli - detiam» (2017). He is a member of the International Union of Writers «Novy Sovremennik», the Belarusian Literary Union of Writers «Polotsk vetv». Teacher of the private school «Smart Skul».
2 years in prison
According to the investigation , from November 2020 to March 2022, the accused, using a mobile phone in chats of Telegram channels recognized by the court as extremist materials, published 17 comments of an offensive nature with obscene language addressed to the judge, internal affairs officers and other government officials, and also Lukashenko.
On April 11, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
She was convicted of insulting A. Lukashenko about household chemicals. After that, she again insulted Lukashenko on the phone by dialing 102. She has a leg disease, cannot move independently, and is disabled.
2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The bass guitarist of the band «TOR BAND».
On January 20, 2023, it became known that the «TOR BAND» group was recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus. Dmitry Golovach and his wife Yulia, Yevgeny Burlo and Andrei Yaremchik were added to the extremist formation of the State Security Committee.
This is the first musical group to be included in the list of extremist formations.
7.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
According to pro-government telegram channels, he was detained "for promoting extremist activities."
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
According to pro-government telegram channels, he was detained for numerous comments on social networks.
On October 31, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
3.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Graduated from BSUIR, systems engineer. For a long time he worked in RUE "Beltelecom" in his specialty.
Has 4 children from different marriages. Recently lived in Brest.
He is involved in the "terrorism" case. According to the prosecution , from July 14, 2020 to January 6, 2022, on the territory of Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other states, "an organized criminal group was created and operated, the main purpose of which was to commit an indefinite number of extremist crimes. The crimes were supposed to to commit persons radically inclined towards the current government, including former active military, law enforcement officers, primarily special forces, hand-to-hand combat athletes, businessmen and others who shared the views of seizing state power by unconstitutional means.
There are 18 defendants in the case, 15 of whom are in custody, and three were convicted in absentia. The process took four and a half months.
12 years of imprisonment in a colony under a reinforced regime
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