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The detention of Natalia became known in March this year. Then the so-called "repentant" video with a woman appeared in public sites associated with the security forces. In the comments to this video, there were clear threats of reprisals against a woman. The case ended in court under Part 2 of Art. 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity), the result of which is unknown. After this detention, a criminal case was opened against the woman for "assisting extremist activities."
The woman was sentenced to 2.5 years of restriction of freedom. But due to the time spent in the pre-trial detention center, Natalya has a year and three months left to serve her sentence.
1 year 3 months of restriction of freedom without direction.
According to the materials of the prosecution , on the evening of August 9, 2020, Polina, together with her husband and other persons, “took an active part in group actions involving obvious disobedience to the legitimate demands of government officials, associated with a deliberate obstruction of traffic and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
1.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
After graduating from the Department of Foreign Languages of the Gomel State University, Gleb began working as a bartender. Human rights activists learned about the detention of 24-year-old Vetoshkin by GUBOPiK officers from pro-government telegram channels on November 28 last year.
It was reported that he allegedly distributed extremist materials, and in August 2020 he participated in protests, insulted government officials and incited social hatred. After the arrest, a protocol was drawn up against Gleb under Part 2 of Art. 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials).
On June 8, 2023, the prosecutor's office filed an appeal to increase the punishment from 5 years of “home chemistry” to three years in prison. The representative of the prosecutor's office in court requested a year and a half of imprisonment with serving in a general regime colony. The Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court upheld the prosecutor's request.
The meeting was an off-site event and took place in the premises of the Dobrush municipal unitary enterprise.
The man was accused of leaving messages in one of the Telegram chats calling for participation in protests, and also sending "various news and information of a destructive nature" to the chat. At the trial, he said that he himself had participated in protests twice. The man fully admitted his guilt and repented of what he had done.
Galymzhan Bakirov has a secondary education. He worked at the Dobrush paper mill.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
On January 9, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court considered the case of two Gomel residents, Vladislav Yatsenko and Kirill Plakushchev. According to the investigation, one of them repeatedly posted on one of the social networks publications calling for participation in the Kastus Kalinovsky battalion, "Azov" and other formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also transferred 21 euros for the Kastus Kalinovsky battalion. Both guys were also accused of making cynical inscriptions and drawings on the walls of buildings. The court assessed the damage at 130 rubles.
According to human rights activists , he was released on May 7, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Dmitry Solovyanchik worked as a courier for Kuprienko's company. A story on a pro-government channel claims that he also filmed a video of the movement of military equipment and passed it on to Kupriyenko, "not knowing what they were for him."
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The guy was accused of taking part in a protest action against the results of the presidential election on August 9, 2020 in the center of Zhlobin.
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A Ukrainian citizen born in Chernihiv. Zakharenko is also charged in the case with Larisa Krupa. The women are charged with failure to report a crime (Part 2 of Article 406 of the Criminal Code) and espionage (Article 358 of the Criminal Code). The trial will be held behind closed doors.
Natalia traveled to Belarus in the second half of 2022. She helped Ukrainians who were stuck in Belarus and unable to leave the country on their own. She traveled to Belarus in her own car. Zakharenko helped evacuate approximately 30 people from Belarus.
During another trip to Belarus, the woman disappeared. She stopped communicating on July 17, 2023.
It is known that, in addition to the prison term, the court ordered the confiscation of Natalia's minibus.
Her friend, Larisa Krupa, a Belarusian from Mozyr, was fined 100 basic units (4,000 Belarusian rubles) for "failure to report a crime."
The circumstances of the charges are unknown, as are the details of the trial - the court was closed.
On May 24, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
On the evening of June 28, 2024, news broke of the release of five political prisoners from Belarusian prison colonies. Ukrainian authorities secured the release of their citizens in a prisoner exchange. Natalia Zakharenko, Pavlo Kupriyenko, Lyudmila Goncharenko, Kateryna Bryukhanova, and Mykola Shvets, a defendant in the "Machulishchi case," were released. The terms of the exchange were not disclosed. The Vatican was reported to have participated in the release. The released political prisoners were brought to Ukraine on June 28; their photo from Zhulyany Airport was published in the media.
Loader of the Gomel winery. Dmitry did not participate in any political protests against the current government of the Republic of Belarus, but on the contrary, he participated in a bike ride in support of Lukashenko and took part as a vigilante on his day off at the elections in 2020.
Dmitry Malashenko was put on trial for comments: «It's scarier in the country than in Somalia»; and: «If I had a gun and such people would break down to me, I would also defend my house, if only I made barricades»; under a post with a video of the detention and murder of IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a public in the social network vk.com. During the trial, Dmitry first pleaded guilty in full, but during the trial it turned out that in fact the man watched only a piece of the video, because he was going to work and in a hurry, he did not read the news and took the people who opened Zeltser's apartment for criminals, therefore he wrote such a comment. Dmitry Malashenko also did not admit that he could discredit law enforcement officers in general and specifically those who entered the apartment in this way, but just expressed his personal opinion, to which he has the right.
According to human rights activists, he was released.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Nikolai, a chemical engineer, was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser. He was found guilty of "discrediting the Republic of Belarus" for a post in the "Strong News" group on the social network VKontakte, which, according to the prosecution, discredited the country.
Nikolai was released in November 2022 in the courtroom, having already served his entire sentence.
According to pro-government telegram channels, 45-year-old Alexander, the chief engineer of the Milkavita plant, “tried to disrupt the republican referendum,” and also sent money to the BySol fund.
A defendant in a criminal case opened after the murder of KGB officer Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser.
On January 28, 2023, she was released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
It is known that Vitaly is 36 years old. In February 2021, after the decision to deport him, he was taken from the Russian Federation to the Republic of Belarus. The connection with him has disappeared. He is accused of insulting Lukashenko and making comments in chats.
According to human rights activists, he was released in December 2022 after the expiration of his sentence.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the prosecution, in the spring of 2022, Yuriy Zaretsky, at approximately 17:20, "being aware of being in a public place, opposing his personality to public interests and expressing demonstrative disrespect for society, with the aim of worsening the aesthetic perception of public property, applied a couple of inscriptions to the reinforced concrete fences of the Gomel civil engineering section with a black aerosol can." Zaretsky, questioned at the court hearing, fully admitted his guilt and said that he was outraged by what was happening in Ukraine, so he decided to express his attitude to the events and write on the concrete fence near the pedestrian crossing over the railway tracks on Kirov Street "P…. - …."