Convicted for leaving comments about police and traffic police officers in telegram channels in the fall and winter of 2020. Catherine has imperfect children.
pastor of Light of Hope Baptist Church, member of the independent metal workers' union. A possible reason for the detention was his activities as a member of an independent metal workers' trade union, since other members of the trade union movement were detained on the same day in Minsk. In 2020, the pastor was an active participant in the trade union movement for fair elections and decent working conditions. Chichmarev was taken into custody and at first was in the KGB pre-trial detention center.
An entrepreneur and TikTok blogger from Bobruisk was detained on April 28, 2022 right at his place of work - in his store.
It is known that Andrei is involved in a criminal case for insulting the president. After the arrest, GUBOPiK seized Belyavsky’s TikTok account. Before his arrest, Belyavsky’s account had more than 100,000 followers.
01/05/2024 released after expiration of sentence.
Trial outcome 22.08.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Political activist from Grodno. In 2017, he spoke at protests related to the introduction of a “tax on parasitism.” In 2019, I set up a tent in front of the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Grodno to solve the housing problem. In 2020, Lavrentiev, together with activist Nikolai Solyanik, held a number of actions for the introduction of quarantine in Belarus during the coronavirus pandemic. Before the 2020 presidential elections, the activist was serving administrative arrest for an action during a meeting with Sergei Tikhanovsky. In the fall of 2020, he left Belarus for Poland.
In Poland, he volunteered to help two Belarusian refugees. but in December 2020, Alexander disappeared from a rented apartment in Bialystok. The girls' money also disappeared with him. He did not answer calls or messages. He told his friend that he calmly crossed the Polish-Belarusian border, but his case in Belarus was closed due to lack of evidence. In 2021, Alexander purchased a food truck and worked in one of the microdistricts of Grodno. I was selling shawarma. On May 2, 2022, Lavrentyev was detained right at his workplace. Detained by the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Grodno Region. After the arrest, the Grodno resident said on camera that he was detained for distributing extremist information online and insulting the president. He admitted guilt.
On October 11, 2022, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
In the summer of 2024, it became known that Grodno resident Alexander Lavrentiev was given another 1 year of imprisonment in a colony under Article 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (“malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of a correctional institution”).
Trial outcome 02.08.2022
3 years 4 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
musician from Molodechno, detained on April 12, 2022 after a search of his house. Previously, Alexander played in the band "Conflict".
He was detained again on July 26, 2022. It became known that a criminal case was again opened against him under Article 369 of the Criminal Code; the guy allegedly insulted another government official last year.
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