On August 27, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in general regime conditions
Ilya has been working for the IT company iTechArt for over twelve years. This is a large company with over one and a half thousand employees. Ilya is a Senior software engineer. Gumbar has two well-known hobbies - sports tourism and trail running. Trail running is running long distances across rough terrain, often impassable forests or high mountains (within the route, the altitude differences can reach thousands of meters). He ranks second in Belarus among men in this discipline according to the UTMB rating.
On September 3, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
5.5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony
Director of television advertising and music videos, journalist, political activist and co-founder of the Free Association of Athletes SOS BY, recognized as an “extremist formation” in Belarus. Andrej Gnet was arrested by Serbian authorities upon landing at Belgrade airport in October 2023 on the basis of an Interpol warrant issued at the request of Belarus. Andrei was in custody from the moment of his arrest; on June 6, 2024, he was transferred to house arrest without permission to leave the apartment.
Igor was detained on November 23, 2023. From a video on a pro-government channel published by security forces, it is known that he was a co-founder of a company for urban route transportation.
On camera, Igor says that he was detained for comments in Telegram channels about the Belarusian and Russian military.
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He was found guilty of “slander against Alexander Lukashenko.” The reason was a comment on the news in one of the telegram channels, which contained sharp criticism of the politician.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
The rector of the Roman Catholic parish in Shumilino, the sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, Father Andrzej Yukhniewicz was not released from the Vitebsk temporary detention center after serving 45 days of arrest . We managed to find out that the prison term of the priest from Shumilino was extended until July 2. The only supplies he is allowed to receive are medicines. There is practically no information about him. Father Andrzej Juchniewicz has been convicted at least 4 times in a row. Probably, the first three times - for a maximum period of 15 days, and the fourth time the court assigned him a new term of arrest of 10 days.
Thus, the rector in Shumilino has been behind bars for more than 45 days - longer than all the Roman and Greek Catholic priests who were sentenced to administrative arrest in Belarus.
Let us remind you that he was detained on May 8.
In addition to imprisonment, Tatyana was awarded a fine of 2,000 rubles.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
38-year-old illustrator. According to the version of the prosecution, which was voiced by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office, Natalya Levaya in 2021-2022 transferred funds and cryptocurrency in a total amount of at least four thousand and four hundred rubles (today this is about 1,275 euros). In addition, she was fined 1,000 basic units - almost the same amount that Natalya donated to the initiatives and funds. This is exactly the punishment the state requested at the trial. accusation. The trial was held behind closed doors.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Irina Pogadaeva is 54 years old. She is from Brest. She worked at a local library as a bibliographer. Judging by social networks, she has two children.
At the end of January 2024, when she was tried for “distributing extremist materials.” At the end of 2023, she was included in the “extremist formation.” This was recognized by the Facebook community “Letters of Solidarity Belarus 2020”, in which people exchanged letters from political prisoners and also discussed helping prisoners.
In total, the case involves more than thirty episodes in which a woman sent money to political prisoners in pre-trial detention centers in Minsk, Gomel and other cities of the country. Basically, we are talking about amounts of 4-5 rubles. In just less than a year and a half (from August 2021 to December 2022), Irina sent 188 rubles. This was enough to initiate a criminal case and arrest in May 2024.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
On 13.08.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Citizen of Poland .
14 years of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions
Citizen of Lithuania, but native of Belarus. She worked as the head of the marketing service of the Lithuanian sanatorium "Belarus".
Ramanauskiene could have been detained last year when she was returning to Lithuania from Belarus, where she was visiting her relatives. The woman's relatives declined to comment to the Lithuanian publication. The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry reported that she is being provided with consular assistance. The trial in the Minsk City Court began on June 3.
She was found guilty under Art. 358-1 of the Criminal Code (undercover activity). The process took place behind closed doors, but, according to state media, she was accused of the fact that the woman “repeatedly provided information about guests arriving on vacation, including high-ranking Belarusian officials.” It is reported that she was allegedly recruited by Lithuanian intelligence services more than 10 years ago.
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
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