He was arrested on September 18, 2021. First, he was sentenced to 10 days of arrest in an administrative case, but then he was not released, but transferred to a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case.
Sergei was charged with organizing or actively participating in group actions that grossly violate public order.
4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Gomel resident, native of Kazakhstan. Detained in Russia in October 2021 for participating in a protest in Gomel in August 2020 and was placed in a pre-trial detention center. On May 3, 2022, the European Court of Human Rights banned the Russian authorities from extraditing Zubkov, his lawyer Roza Magomedova (“Civic Assistance”) notified the state authorities about this. Zubkov was supposed to be released - the term of arrest expired on May 14, 2022. However, at 10 am on May 13, 2022, he was forcibly extradited to Belarus, which was a gross violation of international law.
3 years in prison in a penal colony.
A native of Kazakhstan. Worked for "Grodno-Azot". In Grodno , he was detained on November 4, 2021 as part of a criminal case on insulting a representative of the authorities
3 years in prison.
A resident of Vitebsk, was detained at the end of September 2021 in a criminal case on the creation of an extremist group (yard telegram chat).
4.5 years in prison in a penal colony
resident of the Kamenets region. According to the position of the state prosecution, Vitaliy Bondaruk committed crimes under these articles by posting comments and one video on social networks from August 2020 to March 2021.
5 years in prison .
2.5 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution
2.5 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution
A resident of Lida, a military pensioner. Sergei is suspected of preparing an attempt on Gaidukevich and other officials, as well as of illegally importing and storing weapons for allegedly preparing terrorist acts.
On September 29, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
14 years of imprisonment in a colony under a reinforced regime with deprivation of military rank
He was detained on September 6, 2021 as part of a criminal case on group actions that grossly violate public order. On November 17, Yegor Kuzmin was sentenced at the Zavodsky Court of Minsk. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to a closed institution.
Former military man, signalman. Director of a company for the installation and repair of electric garage doors and barriers.He was detained on September 29, 2021. On April 8, 2022, the prosecutor's office sent a case to court against activists of the Busly Lyatsyats initiative. Some episodes of the criminal case are related to damage to the car of a judge of the Borisov district in March 2021 and a window in the apartment where “an employee of the Minsk prosecutor’s office lives with a young child” in April 2021.
Alexey has three children, one of them is a minor.
14 years in prison in a penal colony.
according to the text of the accusation, in November 2020, in the group “punishers of Belarus”, he read that Lieutenant Colonel Vishnevsky D. D. (head of the IDN) of the Orsha District Department of Internal Affairs beat a girl, could not resist and left a comment like “ you can beat a woman with a baton, but with me fight weakly, bastard? "
2.5 years of restriction of liberty with referral to open institutions
Detained on November 11, 2021 in Vileyka.
| 12.07.2022 | On July 5, 2022, the Court of Appeal upheld the verdict |
2 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution
Convicted for an insulting comment on Vkontakte regarding a police officer. He has been serving his sentence since October 9, 2021.
3 years in a penal labor facility.
Arrested on August 11, 2021. Charged with throwing a wooden door off a shared high-rise balcony at police officers in August 2020.
Sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in prison.
He was accused of insulting two employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In addition to Volnich, he also "offended" Andrey Komar, a police captain from Bobruisk. Due to various circumstances, the victims did not participate in the hearing. Alexander Safonov pleaded guilty, refused the services of a lawyer. He will have to pay material compensation to the "offended" policemen in the amount of 1,500 rubles.
2.5 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution
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