1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Former executive director of Belarusbank. He was detained along with his wife for participating in protests in 2020.
In the fall of 2017, Anatoly Bogovik was sentenced to eight years in prison allegedly for corruption, but a few years later he was released on pardon.
On 20 October 2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
On July 29, 2024, Anatoly had a trial in Volkovysk to establish preventive supervision .
According to human rights activists , he will be released at the end of the summer of 2024 , having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
He is expected to be released at the end of summer 2024 .
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Daughter of journalist Dmitry Lupach. On May 3, she was sentenced to 24 hours for distributing so-called extremist materials on social networks and instant messengers. After that, she had another trial, during which the girl was also given a 25-basic fine for this. After which Svetlana was transferred to pre-trial detention center-2, she is charged with a criminal offense for participating in protests.
On January 05, 2024, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
Released in July 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony
Evgeniy’s “crime,” according to the prosecution, is that in April 2022, on the Odnoklassniki social network, a man gave a “class” reaction to the publication of the group “STOP LUKA.” After the “class” reaction, this post appeared on Bilobrovko’s page. With this, according to the prosecution, the man publicly insulted A. Lukashenko.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year in prison
According to the investigation , Nikita Struy, from May to November 2022, “in order to spread the ideology of Nazism, approve and deny crimes against the peace and security of mankind, war and other crimes, using a mobile phone he repeatedly posted images and comments in various Telegram channels aimed at the rehabilitation of Nazism.
In July and August 2022, in order to ensure the activities of the destructive Telegram channel and Telegram group, he, clearly knowing that their information products were recognized by the court as extremist materials, forwarded publications from these resources to other Telegram communities.”
Nikita Brui is the great-great-cousin of the people's writer of Belarus Yakub Kolas, and studied at a high school in the village of Nikolayevshchina.
In November 2022, state channels reported the detention of five participants in the closed chat “Union of the Belarusian National Shield” (UBNSH), recognized as an “extremist formation.”
The sentence was reduced on appeal from three to two years.
On September 15, 2023, the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years imprisonment in a correctional colony
He worked in the store "Green" as an electrician. I was detained on November 29, 2022 right at the workplace. First he received 15 days of arrest under 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Then a criminal case was opened. In a comment in which Vladimir condemned Russian military aggression, the investigator saw assistance to extremism.
On June 23, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.
Trial outcome 13.04.2023: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 23.06.2023: the sentence was upheld.
It is known that the man was tried for actions during the referendum in 2022 and the administration of the telegram channel of the Military Academy of Belarus.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison
Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
10.21.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year in prison.
3 months of arrest
He was detained upon returning to the Republic of Belarus in the fall of 2022. Convicted for participating in the 2020 protests.
On July 4, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Svetlana was first convicted under an administrative article for “distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities,” after which a criminal case was opened against her for insulting A.G. Lukashenko.
According to the materials of the prosecution in the criminal case, Svetlana on her page in Odnoklassniki allegedly “placed a publication and video with a screensaver containing deliberately false information about Alexander Lukashenko, associated with accusing him of committing especially serious crimes, such as “murder”, “treason” state”, which do not correspond to reality and discredit its authority in the eyes of the public."
According to human rights activists, she will be released in early spring 2024 after fully serving her sentence.
1 year imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
Olga was first convicted under an administrative article for "distributing, manufacturing, storing, transporting information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities", after which a criminal case was opened against her for insulting Lukashenka A.G.
3 months of arrest .
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony
Vladimir was detained on May 9, 2023 at the Terespol-Brest border crossing when returning to Belarus. His phone was checked and then he was detained.
There are several known administrative courts against Vladimir. So, on May 10, 16, 26 and June 7 he was tried under Part 2 of Art. 19.11 Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of extremist materials) and was sentenced to arrest. The last time he was sentenced to 15 days
Searches were carried out at the place where he and his relatives lived. Since his arrest, Vladimir has been kept in the temporary detention center of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Brest.
On the night of June 22-23, 2023, Vladimir was released into a temporary detention facility.
Vladimir was detained again on October 28, 2023 in the Drogichinsky district. There was a preliminary search and seizure of office equipment; after checking his phone, he was detained under Art. 19.11 part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of information products included in the republican list of extremist materials, as well as production, publication, storage or transportation for the purpose of disseminating such information). It is known that Vladimir was arrested because of old subscriptions.
The trial date is still unknown. Since his arrest he has been held in the temporary detention center of the Ivanovo region .
On December 11, 2023, it became known that Vladimir was free.
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