A well-known activist on Facebook, a supporter of Viktar Babaryka, is charged with article 368 of the Criminal Code (“insulting the president”). The Mogilev woman faces up to four years in prison.
27.09.2021 | Detained for 367 h2 registered prone to extremism |
3 years in a general regime colony
He was detained on August 4, 2021 as part of a criminal case. The trial was held behind closed doors.
4.5 years in prison in a penal colony.
According to the charges, Ilya Komkov took part in an unauthorized mass event on September 23, 2020 on Svobody Square in Minsk, acted together with unidentified persons, shouted slogans, repeatedly refused to comply with the demands of police officers, prevented the detention of one of the protesters and was detained for this.
Ilya Komkov did not admit his guilt.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Dmitry Belikov was found guilty that on September 20, 2020, he joined the rally as part of a group of 800 people, took an active part in it, disrupted the operation of transport, and he also had a white-red-white flag with him.
3 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
On September 14, 2020, Lepeshev saw Prydybaylo’s phone number in the Black Book of Belarus, called him and said: “You are fucked up.” During the trial, it became known that for security reasons the propagandist was then transferred to the Russian embassy in Minsk. The victim Prydybailo was able to attend the trial only on the day of the debate. He filed a civil suit in the form of 3,000 rubles for "moral suffering". Investigators also found Lepeshev's correspondence on the Discuss and Ask portals, where he wrote, for example, such phrases as "a good Muscovite is a dead Muscovite." For this, a criminal case was opened against Lepeshev for inciting ethnic hatred.
Svyatoslav has 1 minor child.
4 years of restriction of freedom .
In December 2022, Svyatoslav's sentence was tightened and he was transferred to a colony. Taking into account the recalculation of the term, he remained in prison for 1.5 years.
Builder-finisher. There are three children in the family.
On April 8, 2022, the prosecutor's office sent a case to the court against the activists of the initiative «Busly Lyatsyats». Some episodes of the criminal case are connected with the damage to the car of the judge of the Borisovsky district in March 2021 and the window in the apartment where an employee of the Minsk prosecutor's office lives with a minor child in April 2021.
15 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
A resident of the Minsk region. The reason for the detention was a visit to the entrance where a police officer lives. He served in the 103rd unit in Vitebsk, collaborated with Baipol.
28.12.2021 | On December 10, 2021, he was sent to colony IK-3, Vitebsk region. Info from the administration of Sizo-1 |
6 years in prison
a resident of Brest, a defendant in a criminal case initiated under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (Participation in riots) after protests in the city in August. Ilya is in custody in a pre-trial detention center. In August 2021, his trial began.
4 years in prison under enhanced regime.
Inhabitant of Osipovichi. In the fall of 2020, he served 13 days for rallies. Then he was detained under Articles 130 and 359 ("Terrorism"). Relatives say that Ilya was not interested in politics. No one knows the details of the charges.
5 years in prison .
Anarchist. Detained on July 29, 2021. His apartment was searched, and during the arrest he was beaten. Demanding access to the phone and computer, the guy pulled a bag over his head. During the transfer to the pre-trial detention center, all books were taken from Yevgeny Rubashko and put on a preventive record as prone to extremism, which means making a note in a personal file, special treatment and additional work with a psychologist.
In February 2023, Yevgeny Rubashko was transferred for a month to a cell-type room in IK No. 2. Prior to that, he was placed in a ShIZO three times for 10, 7 and 7 days for far-fetched violations of internal regulations. After being kept in the PKT, Yevgeny was again placed in the ShIZO for a total of 17 days.
In Bobruisk on April 19, 2023, the court transferred the political prisoner to the prison regime .
At the beginning of May 2023, it became known that Evgeniy had been transferred to Prison No. 8 in Zhodzina.
16.08.2021 | Vegetarian |
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
On August 6, in the court of the Leninsky district of Minsk, the chairman of the United Civil Party (UCP), a member of the main composition of the Coordinating Council Nikolai Kozlov, was sentenced to three months of arrest. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 407 of the Criminal Code for disclosing data in a criminal case against the Coordinating Council, but the specific episodes of the charge are unknown, since the trial was held behind closed doors. Released on March 26, 2022 at the end of his term. At the end of July 2022, he was detained again. According to the indictment, on August 23, 2020, Kozlov, Kovaleva and Alekseeva “publicly shouted slogans, applauded loudly, were on the roadway, which blocked and impeded the movement of transport in Minsk, including the urban passenger transport of Minsktrans.”
The first sentence is 3 months of arrest .
The second sentence is 2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
sociologist, senior analyst at the Center for European Transformation, expert of the analytical group of the Agency for Humanitarian Technologies. She was detained on August 4, 2021 after a house search as part of a criminal case. She was detained again on March 23, 2022 and placed in a pre-trial detention center.
2.5 years of restriction of freedom.
Belarusian philosopher and methodologist, public and political figure, founder of the Flying University. He was detained on August 4, 2021 after a house search as part of a criminal case.
On February 13, in the court of the Shklovsky district, a trial was held to change the detention regime for Vladimir and transfer him to a prison regime.
5 years in prison under enhanced regime.
resident of Brest, worked as a turner before his imprisonment. He loves to do metalworking and design. Has a mathematical mind. Has a 12-year-old daughter. Sergei has been in custody in a pre-trial detention center since the end of March 2021.
In the summer of 2023, he was transferred to prison regime until the end of his term.
4 years of imprisonment under enhanced security conditions. On July 21, 2023, he was transferred to prison regime until the end of his term.
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