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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…. - …."
A large family, they live in a village near Gomel.
Oleg was detained for a comment on social networks after the death of Andrei Zeltser.
He was released in the courtroom after the verdict was announced.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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A citizen of Ukraine.
According to the prosecution, Petrenko was the administrator of the telegram chat «Chat. Gomselmash for free Belarus!», which was created on August 13, 2020. In it, according to the prosecution, he called for a strike at the enterprise, and also made reposts from telegram channels recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus.
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
Convicted of participating in protests in September 2020.
Denis pleaded guilty in full.
According to estimates of human rights activists, he was released in early 2023.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was convicted for a call left in 2020 in one of the telegram channels: «We set fire to Tabakerki (kiosks for the sale of cigarettes)».
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023 after the expiration of his sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted of participating in protests in Zhlobin in August 2020.
11/19/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Sergey Oleinikov and Yan Alekseychikov were found guilty of climbing on the roofs of administrative buildings, tearing off state flags from the local House of Culture and the village executive committee, and then throwing them on the ground. At this time they were in a state of alcoholic intoxication. The side of the state prosecution was sure that the men acted in a group of persons by prior agreement and wanted to "express a disdainful attitude towards the state symbols of the Republic of Belarus."
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2023.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony