Convicted of participating in a protest action on September 6, 2020 in Grodno.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Convicted of insulting. In addition to the restriction of freedom, Pavel was also awarded a fine of 6400 BYN.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Head of pre-billing and tariffication department of MTS.
According to the investigation materials , Kuzmin had access to personal information of MTS clients and from August 9, 2020 to April 8, 2021, “leaked” it to the telegram channels “Black Book of Belarus”, “Punisher of Belarus” and “All Violations!”
There were 57 victims - security forces, propagandists, officials, judges, prosecutors and members of their families. In addition, the investigation believes that “joint actions of Kuzmin with other persons” resulted in disruptions to the work of transport and enterprises “causing damage to Minsktrans in the amount of just over 22,500 rubles.”
Among the victims are, in particular, an employee of SB. Belarus today” Lyudmila Gladkaya , as well as member of the Belarusian Communist Party and deputy Sergei Klishevich .
7 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony
Andrey Fomin is 29 years old, he hails from Mogilev, but lived in Minsk. The guy graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. In the video of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was forced to say that he was the editor and author of articles for the «Vestniki» newspaper network. According to information from activists of the ByProsvet initiative, Andrey did not have access to newspaper accounts and did not know those who distribute them in Belarus.
As a result, the guy was charged for participating in the March on August 30, 2020 and transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1. Andrey fundamentally did not want to leave his country, he is writing a book, six cats are waiting for him at home.
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
At the beginning of October 2022, in the Moscow district of the capital, unknown persons hung a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine on a power line support. During operational search activities, police officers detained six Minsk residents aged 34 to 36 years who allegedly did this. Including Victor . Only the next day a post appeared on Anton Mot’s Telegram channel with a photo of the flag and the caption: “Minsk residents congratulate the Ukrainian people on the wonderful news from the Crimean bridge. Crime is Ukraine! Long live Belarus! Glory to Ukraine!”
Former employee of BelVEB Bank.
On September 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
At the beginning of January 2023, in one of the pro-government telegram channels, a video appeared with the detention of Sergei by GUBOP and AMON officers, who allegedly administered courtyard chats, including “Grodno Center 97%”; participated in protest rallies and called on others to participate in them, as well as to use violence against police officers, literally, “burn paddy wagons.”
5 years of imprisonment with serving the sentence in a correctional colony under enhanced security conditions.
46-year-old Alexander is accused of trying to join the Kastus Kalinovsky regiment.
Pro-government telegram channels posted the “repentance video” with Gomel resident Alexander Ainutdinov on July 18. In it, a man says that on February 24, when Russia started the war in Ukraine, he began “reading different telegram channels” and decided to join the Kastus Kalinowski Regiment to defend Ukraine. To do this, Alexander tried to illegally cross the border with Ukraine, but was detained by Belarusian border guards.
On 02/03/2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
2 years and 1 month of imprisonment in a penal colony.
As it became known from the court ruling, Anastasia, after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, moved from Belarus to Poland. While in a neighboring country, she tried to donate $16.71 from her Belarusian bank account via Internet banking to the Kalinovsky regiment, but the transaction did not go through.
Later, the political prisoner decided to return to Belarus, where she was detained. It should be noted that at the time of the transfer of funds by Anastasia, the Kalinovsky regiment was not recognized as an "extremist formation."
3 years in prison
Convicted for liking a post in social networks.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Pavel was detained for comments on the Internet.
The prosecution requested 1.5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility for insulting one victim of a security officer, and 2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime for commenting on another security officer.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Former employee of «Grodno Azot». It is known that the man was detained on June 25 under administrative article 19.11 (Distribution, manufacture, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activities or propagandizing such activities) and by court decision received 10 days of arrest.
After the expiration of the sentence, he was remanded in custody again as part of a criminal case. He was blamed for a like on the ok.ru. Namely, in the group «Stopluka» under the post with the image of A. Lukashenko.
Eduard Isaev has a wife and small children at home.
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The wife of the convicted blogger Igor Losik.
Cjnhelybrb law enforcement agencies came home to the Losik's at 8 a.m. Daria herself and her two year old daughter Polina were sleeping.
According to the telegram channels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Daria is accused of facilitating extremist activities in the form of a conversation with the Belsat TV channel in the spring of 2022, despite the fact that the TV channel was recognized as an extremist formation in November 2021. Such an interview, according to the authors of the post, may entail criminal liability under Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code on facilitating extremist activity.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Edgar was detained in a criminal case initiated for comments on the social network VKontakte after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser.
Edgar Shirko in the past worked as a librarian, a journalist for the Intex-Press publication, and taught history and social studies at school.
On January 13, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
According to the prosecution, in December 2021, Sergei Kemezh "after reading the information published in the destructive groups of the Vkontakte social network, posted an offensive comment against the commander of one of the military units" . It is alleged that he was registered under an invalid name and used a VPN, but he was still identified.
Sergei was already tried in September 2021 for the fact that on January 25, 2021, on the social network Vkontakte, under the news about the verdict for insulting the commander of the OMON Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk City Executive Committee, he wrote an insulting comment about this policeman. appointed him two years of "chemistry", as well as compensate 3,000 rubles for moral damage. Sergey was also accused of extortion from the wife of a former classmate, for which he was also awarded 2 years of "chemistry". In total, the man was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of "chemistry".
In September 2022, Sergei was included in the "List of extremists".
In the Lida District Court on June 19, 2023, he was sentenced for “insulting a military serviceman” to two years in a general regime colony and 100 basic fines.
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