As it was established during the preliminary investigation, from July to September 2021, Vitaliy Ostreiko allegedly posted several publications in the Telegram messenger using a mobile phone with deliberately false information about Lukashenko’s activities. Moreover, a number of comments he left were offensive and humiliating.
It is known that Ostreyko was detained on September 29, 2021, along with many other people who left comments on social networks about the death of Andrei Zeltser and a KGB officer.
The consideration of the political prisoner’s case began in the court of the Moskovsky district of Minsk on November 18, 2022. Human rights activists are clarifying the decision.
Vitaly was kept in pre-trial detention center No. 1, and then in investigative prison No. 8.
On March 16, 2023, Vitaly was tried again in the Minsk District Court, this time under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a representative of authority). The verdict is unknown.
It is still unknown where the political prisoner was transferred.
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According to the materials of the prosecution, Andrei Kasparovich on January 22 last year after viewing a publication posted on a social network ok.ru, in the foreground of which Lukashenko is depicted in a military uniform, and in the background — a swastika, posted this drawing on his open page, giving access to it to an unlimited circle of Internet users, which humiliated the honor and dignity of Lukashenka. He also left an inscription that the government uses Nazi ideology and is not a democratic country.
He also deliberately placed an image of the national flag of the Republic of Belarus inside a swastika made in the shape of a cross on his open page on one of the social networks, giving access to it for free viewing and copying to an unlimited circle of Internet users, thereby committing an outrage against the flag of Belarus.
2 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
On October 28, 2022, he was included in the list of persons prone to extremist activities.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony
unknown years of imprisonment in a penal colony
He was found guilty of facilitating extremist activities under part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code. The case was considered by Judge Oleg Khoroshko.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Valentin Fedorenko sent 160 text messages from a push-button phone to the Polish number of the Belsat TV channel. For this, he was accused of facilitating extremist activities. Valentin, who suffers from a mental illness, faced up to six years in prison. According to the source of Radio Svaboda, Valentin suffers from an incurable mental illness. The diagnosis was made back in the 1980s. After that, the pensioner did not go to the doctors. At the trial, the examination confirmed that the disease is incurable and only remission can occur. Fedorenko was sent for a new forensic examination.
In the messages, the man wrote about the movement of Russian military equipment in Gomel and the takeoffs of Russian aircraft from the airfields of the Gomel region. At the court hearing, Valentin admitted his guilt and repented. He stated that he did not know that the Belsat TV channel was an extremist formation.
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Detained in the case of A. Hralovich. The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.
Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which Television News Agency showed in 2021.
It is known that Olga was held for a year in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee, where she was on a hunger strike. Then she was transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1.
«She was completely gray-haired. She was on hunger strike for a long time — she was even fed through the veins on her hands, so they were swollen like forest driftwood».
She began serving her sentence.
7,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.
Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which the Television News Agency showed in 2021.
According to the ONT film, Vladimir Trifonov is a guide across the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, through which he had to illegally transfer Alexey Khralovich.
He began serving his sentence.
14 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
2,5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He was convicted for his participation in the 2020 protests.
On June 12, 2024, Yegor was again scheduled for trial for malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of the correctional institution. He faces an extension of his prison term for another year.
4 years imprisonment in a colony
Since 1996, he has been actively involved in the life of Catholic youth. He participated in local and parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2004. He was one of the initiators of the formation of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party. But since 2011 he has withdrawn from active participation in political life.
He was convicted, among other things, for posting information about the «Freedom March» on his page on August 15, 2020, on August 17 he posted information in which he analyzes the mistakes of the last march, on August 20, 2020 he posted information about how to act when suppressing protests by law enforcement officers. He left more than twenty such messages.
Artyukhov was also accused of direct participation in one such action in Minsk in August 2020.
Nikolay admitted his guilt in the commission of the acts incriminated to him in full at the court hearing, did not deny the authorship of the texts and messages that he left on the social network vk.ru and facebook.com.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Arthur is from Pinsk. He studied at the Slonim Medical College, graduated with honors and upon graduation was assigned to Grodno. He entered the Grodno State Medical University, in addition to this he worked as a paramedic for a visiting team in an ambulance.
According to pro-government telegram channels, he was detained for registering in the Peramoga plan, and also participated in “unauthorized mass events.”
On August 17, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
At the end of October 2022, six men were detained in Minsk for allegedly hanging a sewn white-red-white flag along with the flag of Ukraine on power line supports in Minsk on October 7. These are Igor Tepteev, Yuri Nesterenko, Victor Grinko, Valery Balabeshko, Vladimir Savelyev, Igor Tikach. 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!”
It is reported that it was Yuri who took the photo, which later appeared in Anton Motolko’s tg channel. But Yuri himself said that he sent the photo only to a friendly chat.
On September 14, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
2 years imprisonment in a colony
unknown years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility.
In the summer of 2023, a trial was held to toughen Oleg’s sentence. After the appeal court, on September 5, 2023, Oleg was transferred to a colony.
3 years of restriction of freedom with transfer to an open correctional facility.
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