Maxim is a Minsk resident. Has a higher education. The man is divorced. He once worked as a security guard, later as a builder. Then he opened an individual entrepreneur and erected monuments in the cemetery. I've been unemployed lately.
Friends recall that Maxim served his military service in one of the Minsk “special forces” units.
Maxim is accused of blowing up a police car near the Central District Department of Internal Affairs.
The incident happened on the night of January 7-8, 2022, not far from the building of the Central District Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk. A criminal case has been opened for blowing up a car under Article 289 (repeated act of terrorism).
Investigators later added that on the night of January 13, he allegedly damaged the Tabakerka kiosk and a trash can in the same way.
On May 26, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
15 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to the materials of the investigation, from February 2021 to October 2022, from February 2021 to October 2022, Nikolai Korol posted messages in various instant messengers in which he outlined slanderous fabrications against Lukashenko, publicly insulted him, as well as the leaders of the Central Election Commission and the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly, a number of other state servants and a judge.
On October 11, 2022, he, in order to facilitate the activities of the destructive Telegram channel, whose information products were previously recognized by the court as extremist materials, produced and sent a message about the movement of military aircraft in the Brest region.
Nicholas has a wife and a one-year-old son.
4 years in prison
Convicted for the fact that in December a man ruined three desktop flags of Belarus.
According to the case file, in a shop on Pushinsky pr-t, a 28 year old man «grabbed the panels of three desktop flags of the Republic of Belarus, which were in a metal shelf of the store, tore the flag cloths out of plastic rods and threw them on the floor». The state prosecution regarded Dmitry's actions as committed «on the grounds of political and ideological enmity».
1.5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Olga was convicted for a Facebook post made back in 2020.
According to law enforcement officials, the woman showed «a desire to undermine the authority of the head of state and insult the president in the eyes of the public by choosing a method designed for a wide range of people to spread false information».
| 05.07.2023 | 15 июня поставлена на учёт как лицо склонное к экстремизму |
2.5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Sergey is originally from Kherson, Ukraine, but has lived in Belarus almost all his life. He has worked in various blue-collar jobs all his life. He has two minor children.
The man was detained in February 2023. In a pro-government video, he says that he left comments on Telegram and registered with the Plan Peramoga chatbot. He was first convicted in October 2023 for "inciting other social hatred" (Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code).
On 08.12.2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
Sergei's next trial will begin on September 27 in the Minsk City Court. He is charged under four articles - "participation in an extremist group" (Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code), "incitement of other social hatred" (Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code), "insulting a government official" (Article 369 of the Criminal Code), and "insulting Lukashenko" (Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code). Sergei faces up to five years in prison in addition to his previous term.
Trial outcome 05.10.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 08.12.2023: the sentence was upheld.
Vladimir was accused of administering the community in vk.com calling for the recognition of the Belarusian language as the only state language in Belarus.
In February 2021, Vladimir Butkovets appealed to the Investigative Committee of Gomel with a request to interrogate him as a witness in the case of a human rights defender Leonid Sudalenko, to whom he repeatedly applied for legal assistance.
In the summer of 2022, Vladimir was dismissed from his job as «politically unreliable».
Vladimir was detained on September 5, 2022, he was sentenced to seven days of arrest under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code for «distribution of extremist materials».
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
On April 18, 2023, the Supreme Court replaced the deprivation of liberty with 3 years of restriction of freedom with a referral to an open-type correctional institution.
Dmitry Stepanov was put in jail before the trial. At first, the man was tried under administrative articles — and then a criminal case was opened for creating an extremist formation and managing it (Part 1 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). The term extremist formation refers to the local Brest telegram chat «GOBK».
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
The man was accused of participating in protests in 2020 and entering the roadway. "Together with other people, they stood in a clutch, clapped their hands, shouted loudly, shouted various slogans," the court order says.
At the rally, the police pushed Kirill back with a metal shield and cut his head until it bled with a rubber truncheon.
Komarov fully admitted his guilt and repented of his deed.
Kirill has a specialized secondary education and has a minor child as a dependent.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Former employee of BelVEB bank. Vasily was detained in early July 2022. Pro-government telegram channels claimed that he was detained for allegedly leaking personal data of security forces, teachers and doctors. In the “repentance” video, Ermakov said that he participated in rallies in Minsk and passed information about Interior Ministry employees to the “Black Book of Belarus” bot, “using his official powers.”
Vasily was severely beaten, he even lost consciousness, his ribs were broken. They were transferred to pre-trial detention center-1 from the hospital.
He has 1 child.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony under a reinforced regime.
Pavel Pashukevich was detained for comments in the telegram chat “Dyatlovo for life.”
On May 18, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
Detained for comments on social networks.
| 15.05.2023 | Сильно избит при задержании: подозрение на перелом двух рёбер. |
5 years imprisonment in a colony
On February 10, 2023, the first trial was held under Articles 369 and 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, the appeal hearing was on April 7, 2023.
On October 16, 2023, a new trial was held under Articles 369 and 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus; no appeal was filed.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
Semyon was accused of participating in the November protest in 2020 and of allegedly paying his subordinates salaries “in envelopes.”
On May 12, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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