On 25.08.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
In September 2024, it became known that another criminal case had been opened against Evgeny.
Trial outcome 12.06.2023: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 25.08.2023: the sentence was upheld.
On April 04, 2023, the trial began in closed mode.
It is known that prior to his arrest, Nikolay Davydov worked as a leading design engineer of JSC «Gomselmash».
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained in early March, near the village of Voronovo, Grodno region, he tried to leave Belarus for Lithuania. While examining his mobile phone, police officers found subscriptions to telegram channels, recognized by the authorities as “extremist”. First, the court arrested Viktor Zolotarevsky under an article on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), but later he was charged under criminal articles due to registration in the Peramoga Plan chat bot and a video sent to the Nexta telegram channel. The video showed a conversation between the Ukrainian military and relatives in Gomel.
Zolotarevsky lived in Minsk and worked in the carriage depot of the Minsk branch of the Belarusian Railway, lived in a hostel.
After the arrest, he was fired.
2.5 years in prison in a penal colony.
Detained together with his wife in the case of sabotage in Machulishchi.
Human rights activists received information that on March 3, Maxim Lopatin was detained by employees of the State Security Committee in the case of sabotage in Machulishchi. The man is being held in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.
Lopatin was severely beaten during the arrest. A film was released on ONT, which tells about some high-profile detentions, including the mention of Maxim. Allegedly his friend is a psychotherapist Evgenia Tochinskaya, who lives in Poland, asked to bring a Ukrainian agent Shvets from Stolin to the Lagoy highway on February 27.
The video shows that the man has dentures on his jaw, which may mean that it was broken. After splinting, there should be a serious stage of rehabilitation with eating and drinking water through a tube.
On March 23, Maxim's wife, Lyudmila Lopatina, was also detained.
The couple has two juvenile children.
Trial outcome 03.10.2024: 8 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 1000 basic values fine.
Activist from Baranovichi. Igor has a disability of the 3rd group, because. 10 years ago, he got into an accident and had his leg amputated. He was arrested on February 23, 2023, sentenced to 15 days, then transferred to a pre-trial detention center under a criminal article.
According to the investigation, in different periods of time from May 1, 2020 to May 23, 2022, Shumilov published four posts in Odnoklassniki with satirical images, in which the investigation considered insulting Lukashenka and government officials, as well as slandering Lukashenka. It is known that on one of the images Lukashenka, together with the listed persons, is depicted as prisoners who are kept in a prison cell. At the trial, Igor fully admitted his guilt. He explained that the publications on his page appeared only after he "liked" these posts. He himself did not understand at that time that these drawings could be regarded as an insult.
4.5 years in prison in a penal colony.
According to the materials of the prosecution, Vladislav Bohan took an active part in the post-election protest held in the city on the night of August 9-10, 2020, blocked the way to vehicles, disobeyed the lawful demands of police officers, shouted slogans.
1.5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Trial outcome 30.03.2023: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 20.06.2023: the sentence was upheld.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Bodybuilder, local historian. Previously, a man was detained for participating in protests. On March 16, 2023, he was arrested for “distributing extremist materials” and sentenced to 10 days. The man did not come out and was transferred to a pre-trial detention center. The original charge was for insulting Lukashenko.
In May 2024, he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a new criminal case; his trial began again on May 7, 2024. In addition to him, Andrei Stabulyanets and Denis Tsybulsky were also involved in the case, who was convicted a year ago for participating in protests in Minsk (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).
6 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Editor-in-Chief of the «Regianalnaya Gazeta».
«Regianalnaya Gazeta» is an independent publication covering events in four districts of the Minsk region (Molodechno, Vileika, Myadel and Volozhin) and three districts of the Grodno region (Smorgon, Oshmyansky, Ostrovetsky).
In 2022, the materials of the site were recognized as extremist materials in the Republic of Belarus. law enforcement officials claim that the man will be tried for the published texts.
On January 23, 2024, the appeal hearing was held, the verdict came into force
4 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Orthodox Christian, Bachelor of Theology.
Law enforcement officers came to his place of work, a search was conducted at his place of residence.
2 years in prison
Famous Orthodox Homel resident Alexander Tarasenko, former hieromonk of the Gomel St. Nicholas Monastery.
In the video of the Interior Ministry employees, Tarasenko admits that he posted an insulting post to the president on his facebook.com.
Tarasenko works as a long-distance truck driver.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
He is a political scientist, a specialist in security issues. Head of the analytical center Belarus Security Blog; member of the Board of the organization «Pravyi Alliance» (2010-2011).
According to Andrey's friend, he was detained in Moscow a few days ago. Now he has been taken to Minsk and is now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee («SIZO KGB»).
Yuri is 58 years old.
The prosecutor asked him for 1.5 years of imprisonment.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
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