Resident of Minsk, worked as a loader. Detained for an attempted attack on GOM-2 of the Frunzensky District Department of Internal Affairs in Minsk on August 16, 2021. At least 5 people were arrested in the case.
According to the prosecution , from July 14, 2020 to January 6, 2022, on the territory of Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other states, "an organized criminal group was created and operated, the main purpose of which was to commit an indefinite number of extremist crimes. The crimes were supposed to to commit persons radically inclined towards the current government, including former active military, law enforcement officers, primarily special forces, hand-to-hand combat athletes, businessmen and others who shared the views of seizing state power by unconstitutional means.
There are 18 defendants in the case, 15 of whom are in custody, and three were convicted in absentia. The process took four and a half months.
9 years of imprisonment in a colony under a reinforced regime
Lyceum student of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Detained together with a citizen of the Russian Federation Anton Lysov. He is accused of setting fire to the car of the head of the Forensic examination Committee Alexei Volkov.
7,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the investigation, Alexander Pugach from October 2020 to March 2022 insulted the head of state, as well as government officials, including the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus, in connection with the performance of their official duties in Telegram.
Judge Ruslan Tsaruk appointed, in addition to imprisonment, compensation for moral damage in the amount of 10 000 BYN and 3 200 BYN.
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
the years of imprisonment in the colony are unknown.
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In early September, the telegram channel of the volunteer initiative «Lists of Detainees» published information about the detention of an entire family: Jana, Anastasia and Ales Papkovich. Anastasia was released. And Jana and Ales were transferred to the pre-trial detention center -1. During the detention, Ales' phone and equipment were taken away. As a result, we found one photo from March 2020. For him, the guy was given 2 years in prison.
Ales was fond of music since childhood, - says the brother of the political prisoner. - He knows a lot of Belarusian performers, he played with some of them. For example, he performed with cover bands in Minsk clubs, and performed as a violinist with the D-Major group. The last two years before the arrest became especially creative for Ales - he wrote several lyrics for songs, music for them, made recordings. Ales sings in Belarusian.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
At the beginning of September, the telegram channel of the volunteer initiative “Lists of Detainees” published information about the detention of an entire family: Yan, Anastasia and Ales Papkovich.
Special forces burst into Jan's apartment. During the arrest, security forces shot a machine gun and wounded a dog that started barking at them.
For a month, Yan was in a KGB pre-trial detention center, where he was tortured and could not walk. In stories on BT, Yan was shown as a mercenary who was going to Ukraine. It is known that Yang did not admit his guilt at the trial. One of the witnesses at the trial stated that “they put pressure on him, and he signed everything they said.” As evidence of Yan’s guilt, his private correspondence with his wife, as well as friends who, according to the investigation, serve in Ukraine in Kalinovsky’s regiment were voiced.
Ian worked as a cash collector at Belgazprombank.
In March 2024, Yan was convicted under Article 411 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and another 3 months of imprisonment was added to the existing sentence.
4 years and 3 months of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Stepan is 23 years old, he is a resident of Novolukoml. He was accused of having made extremist inscriptions on the pipeline of the Lukoml power station in March of this year, and two months later painted images of white-red-white and blue-yellow flags on the surface of an artillery piece installed on the territory of a military burial in the village of Starie Lavki of the Chashniki district.
2,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
3 years imprisonment in a colony
6 years imprisonment in a colony
He was convicted for posting a comment about police officers in a public chat in September 2021.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to the prosecution, from May to November 2021, Alexander posted offensive comments about Lukashenka on various Internet resources.
The man also left offensive texts in an abusive form against the Chairman of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus Ivan Tertel, Chairman of the Central Election Commission Lyudmila Yermoshina, deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus, as well as a prosecutor's employee.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony,
Valentin is accused of making offensive comments about Lukashenko, Karanik, and Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Valery worked as a kindergarten guard.
On October 13, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
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She worked as a lawyer for almost 18 years.
She defended political prisoners Ales Pushkin, Artem Boyarsky, Igor Banzer, Andrei Avsievich, Andrei Sokolovsky in court.
On February 23, 2022, she was expelled from the Grodno Regional Bar Association for systematic violations of the law. Yulia left Belarus, but returned to the country at the end of August 2022.
She was detained on the same day together with Pavel Mozheyko
Pavel and Yulia pleaded not guilty. Yurgilevich stated at the trial that she was being held in "bestial conditions" and was not allowed to get acquainted with the case.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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