Polina is the wife of political prisoner journalist Dmitry Luksha, who is being held behind bars under the same articles (complicity in discrediting the Republic of Belarus and active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order). In addition to imprisonment, Polina was awarded a fine of 3 200 BYN.
Trial outcome 02.12.2022:
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
A journalist who covered protests after the 2020 presidential elections. He was repeatedly detained by the police, fined by the courts, and sent to prison for a day. After a number of independent media outlets were recognized as extremist groups, Yevgeny was engaged in local history activities.
On September 13, 2022, in Gomel, in the afternoon, a search was conducted in the journalist’s apartment, after which Evgeny’s information carriers were confiscated and he himself was detained.
On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries. Among those released is Evgeny Merkis.
Law enforcement officers associated the lawyer's detention with the protection of political prisoners of the anarchist movement activists.
Mikhail was immediately sentenced to 15 days in the court of the Frunzensky district of Minsk under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code. After that, he was charged under part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1.
On November 3, 2022, the Ministry of Justice deprived Mikhail of his license due to disciplinary penalties and for committing offenses incompatible with the title of a lawyer.
In June 2023 he was released after the expiration of the sentence.
The Minsk resident was accused of "being on the carriageway, publicly shouting slogans, deliberately blocking traffic by a vehicle by blocking the carriageway by exiting together with other unidentified citizens." At the trial, he fully admitted his guilt. We found Pavel from a photo on the roadway with symbols from the March on his own phone. This one photograph was the main evidence of the man's guilt.
According to GUBOPiK employees, the data on 32-year-old Dmitry Stasevich was given to them by his neighbors. The security forces say they found photographs on Dmitry’s phone, which led to the initiation of a criminal case for participation in “mass riots in 2020.” Dmitry himself, in the "repentant" video, says that he went to marches, and was also subscribed to "extremist" telegram channels.
Through pro-government channels, the man participated in rallies in August 2020, distributed “Nazi symbols” on the Internet, and allegedly insulted officials. Judging by the information from the same channels, Andrei Strunets will be tried for insulting an official (art. 369 of the Criminal Code). In addition, he has already been given 15 days for "administrative".
In addition to the restriction of freedom, Sergei was fined 100 b.v.
Trial outcome 29.11.2022:
2 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution.
Ivar has been in custody since 25 April. He was accused of leaving Ivar on August 28, 2020, in a state of alcoholic intoxication, according to the court, an offensive comment in Odnoklassniki under the photo of the deputy head of the police department for ideological work and staffing. The man fully admitted his guilt and repented of his deed.
Also, monetary compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of 1,000 rubles was recovered from Ivar.
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