A Gomel activist, organizer of travel, rafting, walking, was detained by a special purpose police detachment in his house on the morning of March 1, 2022.
Six members of the special purpose police unit participated in the arrest, who used physical force, laying Igor face to the floor.
Mikhail is 59 years old. A man is married, his wife has a disability and needs daily assistance. At all places of work where he was previously employed, he is characterized as a positive person in all aspects.
He is accused of the fact that on June 22, 2020, on Odnoklassniki, under a post by Olga Karach, he commented on a photo in which Senior Lieutenant Volnich, together with other police officers, brutally detained a man.
05/09/2024 released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
She was detained for distributing and mailing leaflets with an appeal to count the votes of voters honestly.
09.15.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
09.03.2022
Transferred from the KGB pre-trial detention center to the Volodarsky pre-trial detention center. Address for letters: 220030, Minsk, SIZO-1, Volodarsky St., 2, room 86
Trial outcome 23.09.2022:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with a general regime.
He was detained by Russian border guards when he tried to leave Belarus. He was handed over to the Belarusian security forces and placed in a pre-trial detention center.
At the beginning of September 2022,it became known that a trial was held in Orsha to strengthen the political prisoner regime and Dmitry was transferred to prison regime.
Dmitry’s mother died on April 13, 2023.
It recently became known that in Orsha on September 1, 2023, a trial was held under Part 1 of Art. 411 of the Criminal Code (Malicious disobedience to the requirements of the prison administration). Dmitry was added to his prison term by another 1 year and 15 days . That is, the political prisoner’s term should have ended on August 18, and he should have been released, but this did not happen due to re-arrest and trial on a new criminal case.
Trial outcome 02.03.2022
1 year 6 months 15 days of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 01.09.2023
1 year 15 days of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Convicted of insulting police officers - senior inspector for the prevention of opportunistic crime of the Dubrovensky District Department of Internal Affairs, AlexanderShlupakov , and the detective of the group for combating drug control and combating human trafficking of the Dubrovensky District Department of Internal Affairs, SergeiShramov .
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
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