The recent deputy director General of «BelTA» for ideological work, previously worked in the administration of Lukashenko and even received awards from him.
The exact date of the former official's detention is unknown. But it is known that on September 8, 2021, representatives of law enforcement agencies made a report that during the complex of operational search measures, information was received that the current employee of «BelTA» Aderikho may be providing the telegram channel «Nick and Mike» with classified information about Alexander Lukashenko's work schedule. Soon the official was detained.
The case was handled by employees of the State Security Committee. Aderikho was held in custody before the trial. Now Aderikho is convicted of transferring official information that was under his jurisdiction to a representative of the «People's Anti-Crisis Management» and the telegram channel «Nick and Mike». The motive is avoiding lustration after a change of power.
In addition to the term in the colony, Sergei was awarded a penalty 16 000 BYN.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He was detained for participating in protest actions on September 6, 2020 on Independence Avenue, as well as for standing with people with his hands joined at the elbow, forming a chain of people.
In December 2022, the regime of serving the sentence was tightened and Nikita was transferred to a colony.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
It is known that he was a KGB officer. But in 2011 he quit.
According to the investigation, a 34-year-old resident of Borisov set fire to two portals of the BelToll road toll collection system in the Borisov region.
16 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Director of the Vilna printing house.
She was detained on April 4, 2022 in the case of «railway partisans», after she came from Lithuania to Belarus for the anniversary of her mother's death.
The propaganda film on «BT» shows a piece of Alesya's interrogation, where she tells how she bought Lithuanian SIM cards a few days before her trip to Belarus, shows where she hid them on the territory of the country, how she filmed everything to send to her curator in Lithuania. And also that she had to send young people when they arrived at the border. Finally, she was charged under Part 3 of Article 371 of the Criminal Code - intentional illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus committed by an organized group.
| 14.05.2022 | As of May 10, 2022, she received only three letters from her son, although dozens of letters and postcards were sent by friends and relatives. |
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
4 years imprisonment in a colony
The case was initiated for distributing and mailing leaflets calling for counting the votes of voters honestly.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
22.09.2022 it became known that according to the appeal, Pavel's sentence was reduced from 5 years in a penal colony to 4 years and 9 months.
According to the version of the telegrams of channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, he was detained for a photo of railway transport. He was previously arrested under an administrative article. A citizen of Moldova.
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According to the channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, he was detained for creating a cultural and historical «Rezystans» telegram channel.
«Rezystans»,was recognized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs as an extremist formation on March 29, 2022 — after Nikita's 15-day administrative arrest, which he served in February under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code (distribution of extremist materials). At the moment, the Rezystans telegram channel has been deleted.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for participating in protests in 2020 and for registering as a volunteer in Ukraine.
Programmer. Maxim was initially sentenced to 1.5 years in prison. After that, he independently wrote an appeal, where he described in detail everything that was illegal in his case and in court. After that, his sentence was increased to 2.5 years.
2.5 years imprisonment in a colony
According to the case file, on August 10 and 11, 2020, Leonid intentionally and unlawfully collected and distributed information intended for education and other training of persons to participate in mass riots accompanied by violence against individuals, pogroms, arson, destruction of property and armed resistance to government officials.
The prosecution was sure that he distributed the collected information through telegram chats so that residents of Novopolotsk and nearby settlements could get acquainted with it.
Prior to the verdict, Shamov was in custody.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
3 years of imprisonment.
2 years of imprisonment.
Dmitry Dashkevich is one of the most famous political figures in Belarus. He has been engaged in public activities since 2001. He was the head of the «Young Front», several times served long terms for political activity in Belarus. Dashkevich is also one of the organizers of the action «Night of the executed poets» and «Protection of Kuropat».
After the 2020 elections, Dashkevich was perhaps the only public opposition politician who remained in Belarus.
He was detained on March 23, 2022, sentenced to 15 days under an administrative article, during which time a criminal case was opened against Dmitry and after 15 days he was left in custody.
In July 2023, it became known that a new criminal case was opened against Dmitry for “malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration of the correctional institution” (Article 411 of the Criminal Code).
On October 18, Judge Tatyana Derevyanko sentenced Dmitry to another year in prison under strict regime conditions.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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