Arrested on May 28, 2022 in St. Petersburg. As it turned out, the man was on the federal wanted list for comments on the Internet. Andrey is a citizen of Belarus.
According to preliminary information, he was extradited to Belarus in January 2023.
Trial outcome 20.09.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The first time Alexander was convicted for a comment on social networks. A new case was opened for a November 2020 comment on the Punishers of Belarus telegram channel under a post about police ensign of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Brest Diana Khalabuda. The man pleaded not guilty at trial.
Trial outcome 05.10.2023:
First sentence: 2 years of restriction of liberty without referral.
Second sentence: 2.5 years of restriction of liberty without referral.
Yuri was detained at work on November 19, 2021. He was sentenced to 15 days in prison under an administrative offense, after which a criminal case was opened and he was transferred to a pretrial detention center.
He initially served his sentence in IK-2, and in December 2023 he was transferred to IK-22.
In August 2025, he was released , having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 19.04.2022
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Pavel has a disability, he has stage four cancer. His condition noticeably worsened in custody, the inflammatory process began. In July 2022, during the medical rehabilitation expert commission, Pavel was assigned the first disability group - before that he had a disability of the second group.
Pavel is a Catholic believer. Together with his sister, they constantly went to divine services in the Molodechno church. The young man is very fond of music, he graduated from a music school in the piano class.
At the end of September 2022, Pavel was transferred to the republican hospital on «Volodarsky», where he will stay until the diagnosis for cancer patients. In this hospital, people are not in wards, but in ordinary cells adapted to medical needs.
According to the investigative documents , on January 15, Medved posted several offensive and derogatory comments regarding the victims on the "Punishermen of Belarus" Telegram channel and in the "Novaya Borovaya 98%" chat. Some of these comments included obscene language. The victims are prosecutor Valeria Taratunka and police officers Roman Krivoshein and Alexander Shepelev.
Alexander is married (his wife was pregnant at the time of the trial), has a higher education, and has no previous criminal or administrative charges.
Alexander was convicted for the second time at the end of 2025 under Article 130.
Trial outcome 12.07.2021
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, he was detained for registration in the «Peramoga» plan, as well as for comments in social networks.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for comments in a chat about Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Engineer. Previously, he was brought to administrative responsibility for participating in protests.
On November 8, 2022, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Yevgeny was arrested in September 2021 as part of a criminal case opened following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk. In the spring of 2022, he was convicted of "inciting social discord" and "insulting a government official."
Evgeny worked at BelAZ for over 20 years. He has two adult children and grandchildren.
On May 24, 2022, the KGB included him in the list of persons “involved in terrorist activities,” as well as in the list of citizens involved in “extremist activities.”
The sentence against Evgeny has entered into legal force; the exact term of his sentence and the place of his imprisonment are being clarified.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for participating in protests.
He was detained in March, since then, after another administrative period, a new protocol was drawn up and Vitaly was detained again. After three months of imprisonment in Akrestsin he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-1.
Vitaly’s former cellmate from Volodarka said that he was immediately charged with participating in one march. But before the case was closed, he was charged under Part 1 of Art. 130 Criminal Codes on the Internet found his comments for August 2020.
On March 3, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of autumn 2023after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 14.12.2022
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Detained allegedly for registering as a volunteer in March 2022, the detention became known on March 14 from telegram channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus.
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