On August 10, 2020, during the protests, Alexey was driving in his car in Minsk in the area «Belaya Vezha». At the intersection, the man saw members of the special purpose police squad, who, looking for protesters, began to brutally detain car drivers: shoot and break windows in cars. Alexey, not expecting his detention, drove forward, where traffic police officers were just passing. Not noticing the official car, Alexey moved into its row. At the time of the maneuver, the traffic police car had already stopped, and the man went on about his business. In this action, the court saw interference in the activities of an employee of the internal affairs body (Article 365 of the Criminal Code).
At the same time and in the same place, there was allegedly a traffic police officer Mosenza, who testified at the end of December 2022, allegedly Alexey wanted to shoot him down then. For this, the man was charged with Article 364 of the Criminal Code and taken into custody.
Alexey has three children, one of them is a minor daughter of 5 years old.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to the prosecution, at the end of October 2022, in a group supporting the current government, the 64 year old chairman of one of the garage-building cooperatives of Gomel, Alexander Rumko, incited hostility against police officers and glorified collaborators. The Homel resident posted all his comments, including slandering Lukashenka, on a social network ok.ru .
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the telegram channel supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, Alexander was detained for transferring the data of employees of the Slonim district police Department to the bot of the «Black Book of Belarus», for calling for strikes and for participating in unauthorized mass actions in 2020.
Released for health reasons on bail of 100 basic units.
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2.5 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution
2 years imprisonment in a general regime colony
On June 9, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.
Vladimir has 3 children (a son and two little daughters).
2.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony
Member of the Belarusian community for free software, one of the creators of the scientific and educational samizdat «Pamylka». Yury Adamov studied theoretical physics at Belarusian State University, received his doctorate in the UK, and conducted research in American laboratories and universities.
According to pro-government media, he was detained for 24 donations to the extremist «BySol» and «ByHelp», totaling $1,590. Now a criminal case has been opened.
3 years in prison
According to the case file, Olga Ivanchenko posted on her page ok.ru a text with an image containing deliberately false fabrications that disgrace Alexander Lukashenko, humiliate his honor and dignity, aimed at undermining his authority and forming a negative image is freely available.
In addition, the woman posted comments with his negative assessment containing profanity under the post with the image of Alexander Lukashenko.
Olga has an autism spectrum disorder. After her detention, she was held for about a month in the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health in «Novinki» (Novinki is a microdistrict of the city of Minsk).
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Convicted for making statements on chatroulette against Lukashenko.
3 years imprisonment
A former MTS employee from Brest was detained in early November 2022. In the “repentance” video, he said that in 2020-2021 he worked at MTS and had access to data. According to the security officials, Andrey handed over the data of several officials and prosecutors to the Black Book of Belarus.
A former cellmate of Tsypak told human rights activists that Andrei was severely beaten during his arrest.
Andrei's case was considered behind closed doors, so the outcome of the trial is unknown to human rights activists.
Andrei Tsypak previously played in the Brest handball club named after Meshkov. From 2020 to 2021, he worked at MTS - and at that time, according to the security forces, he transferred the data of several prosecutors and government officials to the protest initiative.
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Deputy commander of the 310th artillery group for ideological work of the 120th separate guards mechanized brigade of the guard, lieutenant colonel. He is accused of “treason against the state by a person subject to military status” and “inciting other social discord.”
The circumstances of the case are unknown.
On July 5 and 17, 2024, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 28.03.2024: unknown.
Appeal 17.07.2024: unknown.
He is a 65 year old businessman from the Gomel region was detained for anti-war messages insulting Lukashenko.
In Soviet times, he studied in the Ukrainian Krivoy Rog, worked for Mozyrpromstroy, and in 1992, together with friends, he founded the «Lotus» company, of which he is still a co-owner.
Starotitorov received letters of thanks from the executive committee and the Orthodox Church, was included in the lists of the best entrepreneurs of the Gomel region.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Member of the independent trade union JSC Grodno Azot.
He was detained in Grodno on January 10 for participating in protests in 2020 and for reposting on social networks. He also allegedly "insulted the president" in Telegram channels, employees of government bodies, policemen and at the same time passed information to the Belsat TV channel.
4 years in prison in a penal colony.
He's a Journalist. Vyacheslav is charged with facilitating extremist activities.
At first Lazarev was taken to the Investigative Committee, and for almost a day his family did not know about his future fate. Now he is being held in the Vitebsk pre-trial detention center-2 («SIZO-2»).
The court of first instance sentenced Lazarov to five and a half years in prison in a maximum security colony, finding him guilty under the article on creating an “extremist formation” or participating in it (Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code). The Supreme Court changed the sentence to 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
5 years imprisonment in a maximum security colony
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It is known from the prosecution materials that Kushnarev, using a mobile phone from August 2020 to February 2022, repeatedly posted publications on his page on the ok.ru, which contained insults to the President, the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus and the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus in connection with the performance of their duties.
At the same time, at the discretion of the court, deliberately false and untrue data were given in the publications, discrediting and degrading the honor and dignity of the victims.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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