He is a programmer, enjoys music and fishing. Very inquisitive, knowledgeable in many areas. Studies English and German. He always knew that he would live in Germany, loves the Rammstein band, listens to them all his life, knows all the songs by heart.
The channels supporting the current state authorities reported that Artem was detained for having developed a barcode scanning program to boycott companies that support the current government.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
68-year-old Boris Vitko was accused of writing an offensive comment regarding judge Nikolai Kmita on September 30, 2021, in the Lyakhovichi 97 telegram channel.
Court verdict 01/20/2023: 2 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
At the end of May 2023, it became known that Boris was detained again. This was reported by the pro-government telegram channel. Riot police officers in bulletproof vests with shotguns detained a man on the territory of a private house. In the published video, Boris says that he was detained on suspicion of insulting Lukashenko (Article 368 of the Criminal Code). A search was conducted at the place of residence in the village of Medvedichi, Lyakhovichi district.
Later, human rights activists learned that for some time Boris Vitko was held in the Lyakhovichi temporary detention center, then transferred to the Baranovichi pre-trial detention center. He is now in pre-trial detention center No. 7 in Brest awaiting trial. In November 2023, Boris was added to the list of terrorists. The trial began in early January 2024. At the first trial, Boris Vitko was charged with the fact that on September 30, 2021, in the telegram channel “Lyakhovichi 97” he wrote an offensive comment regarding judge Nikolai Kmita. Based on the totality of sentences, by partial addition of the unserved part of the sentence, the finally accused Boris Vitko was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of seven years and three months, to be served in a correctional colony under a high security regime, with a fine to the state in the amount of 300 basic units in the amount of 12,000 rubles .
Boris has heart problems and must constantly take medication.
7 years 3 months of imprisonment in a colony under enhanced security conditions.
A resident of Miory was detained for unfurling a sign in a public place with the inscription: “Usurper.” Date of arrest: 08/26/2021.
Before the trial, the political prisoner was kept in the Zhodino pre-trial detention center.
On May 18, 2023, a trial was held to replace the sentence from restriction of freedom to a colony.
3 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He was detained as part of a criminal case on November 9, 2021 for participating in protests. First, he was placed in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee, then transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1.
He was also accused of receiving telescopic batons, stun guns and other means from abroad.
5 years of imprisonment.
An activist of the «European Belarus», was detained on December 30, 2021 on a criminal case of group actions grossly violating public order.
On January 7, 2022, the woman was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
Elena has a little son.
8 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained together with her mother.
The apartment was searched under Article 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Then the article of accusation was reclassified to Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
He is previously accused of distributing personal data of Interior Ministry employees.
6,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained together with her daughter.
The apartment was searched under Article 364 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Then the article of accusation was reclassified to Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
He is previously accused of distributing personal data of Interior Ministry employees.
7 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
A resident of Baranovichi. Engaged in entrepreneurship, then worked as a trucker.
In the 2020 elections, he tried to register as a presidential candidate, but the central election commission refused him.
Before the 2020 elections, the YouTube channel «Tochka nevozvrata» («Point of No Return») began to actively conduct (currently it has 43.3 thousand subscribers). Including statements from this channel formed the basis of the criminal case against Chudinovich. In July 2021, the man was placed in custody. On May 1, 2022, he was transferred to a covered prison.
| 26.01.2024 | Перед тюрьмой у него была проблема с ногами, возможно суставы - он ходил с подлокотным костылем. Жаловался, что состояние ухудшилось после ШИЗО, куда его помешали накануне. Когда его вели на ПКТ у него костыль забрали. Видели как он выходил, держась рукой за стену общежития. Из разговоров с ним он сказал, что его жену убили, а дочь похитили (намекая, видимо, что его жена умерла в больнице из-за низкого уровня медицины, а дочь, оставленную без попечителей, отправили в интернат). |
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained under articles 130, 368 and 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Press secretary of «A1».
He was detained on December 10, 2021 and sentenced to administrative arrest. But he was not released. It is known that law enforcement officers beat him.
After the arrest, a video appeared in the channels supporting the current state authorities, in which the Interior Ministry officers forced Nikolai to say that he had passed information related to his professional activities to third parties. But the company then said that Nikolai did not have access to customer data.
The trial was held behind closed doors, but it became known that Nikolai Bredelev was found not guilty under Part 2 of Article 424 of the Criminal Code (Misuse of power or official authority) and acquitted for lack of proof of participation in the commission of a crime.
He was accused of providing funds to deliberately support the activities of an extremist formation (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code) - blogger Anton Motolko. Motolko refuted this accusation.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He is a fitness trainer from Soligorsk.
According to the case file, in January 2021 Gavrilov purchased and provided aerosol cans with paint to two acquaintances — Tatiana and Oleg Birulya. After that, Tatiana and Oleg, from January to February 2021, applied inscriptions and drawings to various infrastructure facilities in Soligorsk, carrying out their damage.
In August 2021, Gavrilov, through agreements, including for material remuneration, involved another acquaintance, Sergei Pasyuk, in engaging in extremist activities.
Then, from August to December 2021, the defendants distributed leaflets and other printed materials on the territory of Soligorsk. The examination of the contents of the «Honest Newspaper», with copies of which the coach was detained, testified that Gavrilov was allegedly involved in inciting racial, national, religious or other social enmity or discord committed by a group of persons.
10 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
He was charged under three articles: 368, 130 and 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Convicted on January 18, 2022.
| 14.05.2022 | Since April 27, 2022, he has been in IK 17, Shklov |
5 years of imprisonment.
He was on the case together with Artem Fedosenko, the director of a private printing house from Minsk.
40 year old Pavel Yukhnevich was detained on March 19, 2021 by traffic police officers on the highway near Minsk. Employees found protest leaflets, newspapers in the car, etc.
According to the investigative committee, thousands of copies of protest newspapers, stickers with unregistered symbols and leaflets were seized from Yukhnevich.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The creator of the store Symbal.by , cultural manager.
He was detained on November 15, 2021 after being called to the police. Then Pavel was convicted three times on administrative cases (for 15, 13 and 7 days of arrest), and after that he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case.
13 years of imprisonment in a penal colony under a reinforced regime.
According to the case materials, Kuzmitsky, having perverted values and a wrong understanding of the word «patriotism», purposefully joined a terrorist organization and headed certain resources of the network «...97».
He administered more than 30 chats, which he filled with extremist materials under strict control and guidance from abroad. The man formed the composition of extremist communities, distributed roles and organized the participation of their members in protest actions.
In addition, he took measures to unite and increase the number of communities: morally supported them in private conversations, organized joint leisure activities, distribution of propaganda products, drawing drawings and inscriptions of an extremist nature on the facades of buildings.
15 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
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