He was detained in September 2023, allegedly for chatting with friends. A criminal case was opened.
Trial outcome 07.06.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 12.11.2024
unknown.
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The expected date of Andrey’s detention is September 20, 2023. On this day, a “repentance” video appeared, where a man says that he allegedly wrote negative comments about Lukashenko, officials, police officers, the Russian military, and also threatened people who support the current government.
44-year-old Andrei Burdenya was detained for comments in telegram chats, of which he left more than three hundred. Andrey studied at school No. 6, and then served in the army. It is known that now he is temporarily not working, but previously he worked for some time in the IT field, and even earlier he was engaged in the production of kitchen furniture and had his own individual entrepreneur
Trial outcome 08.07.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.09.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
4 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
A resident of Bobruisk was detained on February 26, 2024, the day after returning from Poland.
First, he was convicted under administrative article 19.11 (distribution of extremist materials), and then a criminal case was opened under article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (creation of an extremist group). Maxim is allegedly considered involved in the creation of the extremist group “Bobruisk 375”.
Trial outcome 27.09.2024
7 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 06.12.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.
It is reported that Yulia Sharanova took part in the protests when she was 16 years old, and Nikita Voityuk and Nikolai Nikityuk were 17 years old.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The man did not admit guilt. In addition to the prison term, the judge decided to confiscate Makarenko’s mobile phone, which was used “as a means of committing a crime,” to the state’s benefit.
It is known that the appeal took place on May 7, 2024: it upheld the verdict.
Trial outcome 07.03.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 07.05.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Lilia was first detained at the end of March 2023 and sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest. However, in April 2024, it became known that she had been detained as part of a criminal case. She was convicted under several articles for "insulting government officials" and "slander and insult against Lukashenko."
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
He was detained in February when he returned to Belarus from work. Previously, Alexander worked at a locomotive depot, but after 2020 he was either fired or quit himself - it seems that the dismissal was politically motivated. After that, Kamlenok worked as a truck driver in Western countries. And when he returned home from work, he was detained. He was accused of insulting a government official.
The Verkhnedvinsky District Court recognized Alexander’s page on Odnoklassniki as extremist.
Trial outcome 16.08.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 29.10.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On May 3, 2024, the State Security Committee of Belarus added a number of media resources of the FreeInfoBel project to the list of so-called “extremist formations”, and specific people who, in their opinion, are related to the project were also indicated - Olga Pashkevich and Iosif Dulebo. Moreover, the introduction of FreeInfoBel in fact became known only 5 days later - on May 8.
At the moment, it is unknown for what specific criminal case the man is in custody, but it can be assumed that it is related to “extremism.” We managed to find out that Dulebo was initially detained on an administrative matter. However, when the time came for release from the temporary detention center, Dulebo was not released - he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
The man formerly headed the Vitebsk branch of the Belarusian Popular Front, but in the early 2000s he retired from party affairs.
Trial outcome 26.11.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 04.02.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On June 25, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 08.04.2024:
5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
According to social networks, the man is 38 years old. It is known that he lived in Russia for some time, but recently in Minsk. The man has a wife and a child.
Kozelsky worked as an operator at ONT for a long time. For example, back in November 2022, he taught the Interior Ministry Security Department how to work with state media. Kozelsky's last report was released in October 2023.
It is not known exactly when the operator was detained, but it happened more than six months ago.
The issue may be in the Telegram comments he left. Anton used to comment a lot in various political groups, but he deleted the comments themselves. They can only be found indirectly, through other users' responses and the man's traces in the groups.
On August 13, 2024, the appeal was heardandtheverdict came into force.
Trial outcome 28.05.2024:
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
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The son of Larisa Yakhivovich, who was previously convicted in the “round dance” case. The man was detained on March 29, 2024 and placed in custody pending trial. Accused of participating in protests on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Details of the verdict became known from prosecutor Pleskatsevich’s comment to Pinsk state TV (the name of the accused is not named, but he is the only one who was tried in Pinsk in 2024 under the article “unrest”). The prosecutor recounted the position of the accused: on August 9, 2020, he voted at the polling station, returned home and drank a lot (about a bottle of vodka), after which “out of interest he went to look at the protesters near the city executive committee building.” What exactly the man did next at the protests, for what reasons, he did not remember due to alcohol (in his words). But the video captured what the prosecution qualified as follows: “he took an active part [in the riots], namely, with his actions he supported the pogrom and attacked the police with other protesters.”
Trial outcome 29.04.2024:
4 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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