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According to the prosecution materials , Ilya took an active part “in group actions, together with a crowd of people went out onto the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, together with others they clapped their hands, shouted loudly, whistled, shouted various slogans, demonstratively disdainful, openly refused to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”
Ilya has a higher education, participated in the Republican competition “Battle of Minds” among students of law classes.
According to the prosecution , the man repeatedly posted comments in an open telegram group in 2020. They saw a “negative assessment of a group of people united by activity” - the Belarusian army, members of election commissions, including its chairman, the police and riot police.
Ignatovich also “deliberately posted text messages on Telegram with calls for group actions that grossly violated public order, persuaded and encouraged them to participate in group actions, namely to unite and gather people, take them out onto the streets, disrupt the normal work of organizations and enterprises, government bodies, as well as law enforcement agencies.”
It is known that an appeal hearing took place on November 1, 2023, and the verdict came into force.
Ruslan was tried for a comment on a Telegram channel that allegedly encouraged participation in the Marches. Ruslan admitted his guilt. He said that he had indeed posted the comment under the influence of emotions, as he had read comments from other users on the channel. He also noted that he had once attended a protest.
It is known that Ruslan was detained on the border with Russia: the time and circumstances are unknown. Before his detention, he worked as a technician-mechanic.
According to human rights activists , he was released on November 7, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
A resident of Loyivshchyna was detained at the end of August 2023 for insulting police officers while filming a video and then posting the video with insults on the Internet.
After the verdict, she was released in the courtroom due to the recalculation of the time spent in the pre-trial detention center.
6 months imprisonment in a colony.
Information about the detention of the girl appeared in pro-government channels, "repentant" videos were recorded, where the detainees were accused of disloyal attitude towards Lukashenka and a negative attitude towards the Russian military.
Unknown years of restriction of probation
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The detention of Natalia became known in March this year. Then the so-called "repentant" video with a woman appeared in public sites associated with the security forces. In the comments to this video, there were clear threats of reprisals against a woman. The case ended in court under Part 2 of Art. 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity), the result of which is unknown. After this detention, a criminal case was opened against the woman for "assisting extremist activities."
The woman was sentenced to 2.5 years of restriction of freedom. But due to the time spent in the pre-trial detention center, Natalya has a year and three months left to serve her sentence.
1 year 3 months of restriction of freedom without direction.
According to the materials of the prosecution , on the evening of August 9, 2020, Polina, together with her husband and other persons, “took an active part in group actions involving obvious disobedience to the legitimate demands of government officials, associated with a deliberate obstruction of traffic and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”
1.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
After graduating from the Department of Foreign Languages of the Gomel State University, Gleb began working as a bartender. Human rights activists learned about the detention of 24-year-old Vetoshkin by GUBOPiK officers from pro-government telegram channels on November 28 last year.
It was reported that he allegedly distributed extremist materials, and in August 2020 he participated in protests, insulted government officials and incited social hatred. After the arrest, a protocol was drawn up against Gleb under Part 2 of Art. 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials).
On June 8, 2023, the prosecutor's office filed an appeal to increase the punishment from 5 years of “home chemistry” to three years in prison. The representative of the prosecutor's office in court requested a year and a half of imprisonment with serving in a general regime colony. The Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court upheld the prosecutor's request.
The meeting was an off-site event and took place in the premises of the Dobrush municipal unitary enterprise.
The man was accused of leaving messages in one of the Telegram chats calling for participation in protests, and also sending "various news and information of a destructive nature" to the chat. At the trial, he said that he himself had participated in protests twice. The man fully admitted his guilt and repented of what he had done.
Galymzhan Bakirov has a secondary education. He worked at the Dobrush paper mill.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
On January 9, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court considered the case of two Gomel residents, Vladislav Yatsenko and Kirill Plakushchev. According to the investigation, one of them repeatedly posted on one of the social networks publications calling for participation in the Kastus Kalinovsky battalion, "Azov" and other formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also transferred 21 euros for the Kastus Kalinovsky battalion. Both guys were also accused of making cynical inscriptions and drawings on the walls of buildings. The court assessed the damage at 130 rubles.
According to human rights activists , he was released on May 7, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Dmitry Solovyanchik worked as a courier for Kuprienko's company. A story on a pro-government channel claims that he also filmed a video of the movement of military equipment and passed it on to Kupriyenko, "not knowing what they were for him."
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The guy was accused of taking part in a protest action against the results of the presidential election on August 9, 2020 in the center of Zhlobin.
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Citizen of Ukraine. Larisa Krupa is involved in the case along with Zakharenko. The women are accused under articles of failure to report a crime (Part 2 of Article 406 of the Criminal Code) and espionage (Article 358 of the Criminal Code). The trial will be held behind closed doors.
Natalya has been traveling to Belarus since the second half of 2022. She helped Ukrainians who were stuck in Belarus and could not get out on their own, leave the country. She traveled to Belarus in her own car. Zakharanka helped smuggle about 30 people out of Belarus.
During another trip to Belarus, the woman disappeared. She stopped communicating on July 17, 2023.
It is known that, in addition to the prison term, the court decided to confiscate Natalya’s minibus.
Her friend, Belarusian from Mozyr Larisa Krupa, was awarded a fine of 100 basic units (4 thousand Belarusian rubles) for “failure to report a crime.”
The circumstances of the accusation are unknown, as are the details of the trial; the trial was closed.
On May 24, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
On the evening of June 28, 2024, sudden information appeared about the release of five political prisoners from Belarusian colonies. The Ukrainian authorities achieved the release of their exchange citizens as prisoners. This is how Natalya Zakharenko, Pavel Kuprienko, Lyudmila Goncharenko, Ekaterina Bryukhanova, as well as Nikolai Shvets, a defendant in the “Machulishchi case,” were released. The terms of the exchange were not disclosed. It is noted that the Vatican took part in the liberation. The released political prisoners were brought to Ukraine on June 28 - their photo from the Zhulyany airport appeared in the media.
Loader of the Gomel winery. Dmitry did not participate in any political protests against the current government of the Republic of Belarus, but on the contrary, he participated in a bike ride in support of Lukashenko and took part as a vigilante on his day off at the elections in 2020.
Dmitry Malashenko was put on trial for comments: «It's scarier in the country than in Somalia»; and: «If I had a gun and such people would break down to me, I would also defend my house, if only I made barricades»; under a post with a video of the detention and murder of IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a public in the social network vk.com. During the trial, Dmitry first pleaded guilty in full, but during the trial it turned out that in fact the man watched only a piece of the video, because he was going to work and in a hurry, he did not read the news and took the people who opened Zeltser's apartment for criminals, therefore he wrote such a comment. Dmitry Malashenko also did not admit that he could discredit law enforcement officers in general and specifically those who entered the apartment in this way, but just expressed his personal opinion, to which he has the right.
According to human rights activists, he was released.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Nikolai, a chemical engineer, was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser. He was found guilty of "discrediting the Republic of Belarus" for a post in the "Strong News" group on the social network VKontakte, which, according to the prosecution, discredited the country.
Nikolai was released in November 2022 in the courtroom, having already served his entire sentence.