Matvey is a third-year student at the Minsk College of Entrepreneurship and works as a freight forwarder. Matvey Budnitsky was found guilty of taking an active part in a mass event on October 4 on Masherov and Pobediteley avenues, as well as Pritytsky, Lyubimy, Surganov, Kalvariyskaya and Prilukskaya streets. It was associated with a clear disobedience to police officers, loud applause with hands. Matvey "acted jointly and in concert in group actions, using a mouthpiece" - according to the prosecution, this caused a disruption in the work of transport and enterprises.
2 years of restriction of liberty .
A citizen of the Russian Federation, a volunteer of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's initiative group. He was detained on June 6, 2020 in Belarus, on November 26 Andrei Novikov was simply taken to the border with Russia, stamped with a ban on entry to Belarus for 10 years. He has a wife and two children in Belarus.
Andrei Novikov was detained again on April 13 in the village of Prusa, where he had secretly arrived to visit his wife and children. Novikov was charged under Article 371 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ("Illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus"). The charge under Article 342 of the Criminal Code has not been dropped against him either.
On October 31, 2022, he was released upon completion of his term and handed over to the FSB of the Russian Federation upon deportation from the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 05.08.2021: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
German Bykhov was detained on March 15, 2021 for two Telegram chat messages written in August 2020. It is known that a week before German Bykhov’s arrest, his father, who had a disability, died. During the arrest, 4 teeth were knocked out. They forced him to write a confession.
On November 7, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
3 years in prison
A resident of Mogilev, charged under Part 2 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code (Insulting the President) and Part 2 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code (malicious hooliganism). According to the accusation, Lukashevich took part in the manufacture of "dolls" with the faces of Belarusian officials, including Alexander Lukashenko, and their burning near Mogilev.
3 years in prison.
For an emotional comment in Odnoklassniki in relation to the head of the Dzerzhinsky district police department.
According to estimates by human rights activists, in the winter of 2023, he fully served his sentence.
1.5 years of restriction of freedom in the direction of an institution of an open type.
According to the prosecution , he attached a metal wire between two railway rails by winding it around the rails.
On August 31, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
| 25.01.2022 | received a letter from Sergei Rozum on January 24, 22, where he was assigned Br42 to the penitentiary "IK-17" |
| 28.07.2021 | transferred to IK 17 Shklov |
| 19.05.2021 | Currently in Prison 8 in Zhodzina |
2 years in a general regime colony
Accused of two attempts to block the movement of railway transport.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
On August 24, 2022, he was released after the expiration of the sentence.
Accused of two attempts to block the movement of railway transport.
On August 22, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
3 years in prison in a penal colony.
Accused of two attempts to block railway traffic.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in mid-August 2023.
3 years in prison in a penal colony.
Accused in the "case of round dances" in Brest.
1.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
Detained in Novopolotsk on the evening of 10 August. He was kept in SIZO-1 in Vitebsk. Then he was released on bail. January 21 was sentenced to 2 years of chemistry.
The prosecutor protested. The new trial took place on June 22, 2021, the punishment was changed to a colony.
From December 2022 he was transferred to the prison regime until the end of his term.
| 07.05.2021 | Shauro Victor Valerievich. Birthday June 4, 1997 March 26 was the court of appeal. The verdict was upheld. On April 30, he left for "chemistry" at the IUOT No. 21 in Mozyr. |
2 years in a general regime colony.
He was accused of damaging three "Snuffboxes" in Minsk, as well as violence against an employee of the internal affairs bodies.
According to human rights activists, in the winter of 2023 he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
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