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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 strict general regime penal colony.
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
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.
On August 30, his house was searched — it lasted more than six hours. After that, Mozheyko did not get in touch.
Pavel in the spring of 2021 was held in the case of Ales Pushkin and was detained for 72 hours.
Pavel is a journalist and TV presenter, the author of the program «Intermarium» on the TV channel «B**sat», a former political prisoner. He was the director of the «Center of Garadskoga zhytsia», which was liquidated through the court after the initiation of a criminal case.
It is known that a criminal case has been opened against Pavel for exercising his freedom of expression. in the summer of 2021, he was searched.
Father of two children.
In 2002-2004, he served a prison sentence for slandering the president.
6 years in prison in a penal colony.
Ivan Muravyov is 43 years old. At one time, he was at the origins of the STV TV channel, but for the last ten years he has been engaged in managing the famous hookah bar «Kaliannaya No. 1» on Karl Marx Street.
Detained the Investigative Committee in a hookah bar. Muravyov did not participate in the protests of 2020 (but he had an administrative arrest. He turned out to be a random victim who was dragged out of the car by law enforcement officers during the protests).
The trial was held behind closed doors.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was accused that on September 20, 2020, he took part in a protest action and went out on the roadway on Timiryazev Street in Minsk.
The Prosecutor, in the interests of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise «Minsktrans», a lawsuit was filed for compensation for property damage in the amount of 47 716,07 BYN.
At the court hearing, Levchuk fully admitted his guilt.
In this criminal case, he was detained from February 15, 2022 to February 25, 2022, from March 17, 2022 to March 20, 2022, and from May 16, 2022 until the announcement of the verdict (August 11, 2022) was in detention.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
The doctor of the 1st qualification category of the ultrasound specialist of the Smorgon Central District Hospital.
He was detained for insulting Lukashenko.
6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Convicted of participating in protest actions 2020.
Restrictions on freedom with referral to an open-type institution.
According to the prosecution, from January to December 2021 in various Telegram channels Pavel Voropai posted comments insulting the chairman of the Central Commission for Elections and Republican Referendums Lydia Yermoshina, Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Natalia Kochanova, Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei, Prosecutor General of Belarus Andrey Shved, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Korzyuk, Press Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Olga Chemadanova, Head of Vitebsk Customs Pavel Lobachev, as well as a prosecutor's employee, judges of one of the metropolitan districts and other government representatives.
3.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Ilya was found guilty for burning an effigy of Lukashenko and for participating in the March.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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