The reason for the detention was the collection book «Liberated and enslaved. The Polish-Belarusian borderland of 1939-1941 in the documents of the Belarusian archives». The book was published in Minsk in 2021.
By a court decision in January 2023, this book was recognized as extremist.
Dmitry Kolas and his printer are now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.
Author of the Spadchyna telegram channel, Wikipedia editor and Twitter blogger.
In the pro-government video, Chekhovich says that he is “against the current government and supports Ukraine.”
Released after administrative arrest (13 days).
The wife of political prisoner Artem Anishchuk , was detained on November 4, 2022. Then she was sentenced to 10 days of arrest for reposting a post from Nasha Niva. After 10 days, Olga was not released. A “repentant video” appeared with her, in which she says that she was subscribed to “extremist” channels and made reposts from them. Pro-government telegram channels wrote that Anishchuk "is a candidate to spend the New Year in a temporary detention facility, as dozens of reposts have been recorded." Also, according to the security forces, Olga "fueled the situation around the penitentiary system with stuffing and fakes, bombarded government agencies with far-fetched complaints." On November 16, Olga was sentenced to 14 days of arrest for reposting from the Zerkalo telegram channel. On November 28, she was sentenced to another 10 days of arrest.
According to human rights activists, Olga has already been ill with bronchitis twice behind bars, as she is kept in inhuman conditions and sleeps on a concrete floor. In the Mogilev TDF, where she was transferred after the Akrestsin TDF, she is bullied and pressured - three times a day she is forced to undress to the naked and squat. In protest against this, on November 28, Olga Anishchuk went on a hunger strike.
On December 8, 2022, Olga left the temporary detention facility at the end of her administrative arrest.
Leader of the independent trade union "Naftana". Olga worked at the enterprise for 16 years and was fired because of her position. In May 2022, she was released after 75 days of arrest for speaking out against the war. She was detained on November 1 again under an administrative article.
Two days later, the court found her guilty of distributing "extremist materials" and ordered 15 days of arrest. On November 11, she was again sentenced to 15 days for an "unauthorized picket". The reason for the trial was a drawing with the inscription "No to war", which Olga published on social networks.
On November 21, 2022, it became known that Olga was transferred to a pre-trial detention center in Vitebsk.
In an incomplete year of 2022, Britikova spent 105 days behind bars, including 75 days in a row in the spring.
He was convicted for commenting on the Zeltser case.
2 years in prison.
She was detained on September 29, 2021 for comments after the death of Andrei Zeltser. At the end of January last year, the girl was expelled in absentia from the Minsk State Linguistic University. Catherine has a small son.
The term of detention fully covered the term of the sentence. Ekaterina was released in the courtroom.
2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
Convicted for posting comments in the messenger chat on 09/05/2020 regarding an employee of the Slavgorod District Department of Internal Affairs.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
On April 7, 2022, the regime was tightened up to imprisonment.
Detained in the Zeltser case.
In the winter of 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
1 year 10 months in prison
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