Citizen of Germany. It is known that Rico previously worked as a special security officer for the American Foreign Ministry in Berlin. After this position, he moved into the healthcare field, working as a nurse. According to his linkedin page, the man was a military doctor for the Red Cross.
Rico Krieger was found guilty of “committing an explosion in order to influence decision-making by authorities, intimidate the population, destabilize public order (an act of terrorism), committed by a person who had previously committed a crime under Part 4 of Art. 295 of the Criminal Code, by an organized group, that is, in the commission of a crime under Part 3 of Art. 289 of the Criminal Code."
Based on it, Krieger was given an exceptional punishment in the form of death penalty (execution).
Human rights activists also learned that the case of the military doctor concerns the Kalinovsky regiment, namely its structural unit, the foreign mechanized battalion "Western".
It is known that the man left behind a minor child in Germany. It is also noted that at the moment there is no information whether the verdict was appealed or protested, and whether it entered into legal force.
08/01/2024 Rico Krieger was released as part of an exchange between Russia and the West.
Trial outcome 24.07.2024: death penalty.
Diana is a 34-year-old Brest resident. Works at EPAM and leads the testing team there. After the start of the war, she and her son, who is now 7 years old, went to Tbilisi. But at some point I decided to return to Belarus, although I traveled abroad from time to time.
On her Instagram there is a photo from Warsaw, which dates back to June 29, 2023, three days later a photo from Mir Castle was published. And then the girl disappeared from everywhere.
On May 3, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to his page on the social network Vkontakte, Zykun graduated from BSMU (Minsk Medical University) in 2016. Lives and works in Brest as a urologist at a regional hospital. In the winter of 2023, he was detained for donations. The “authorities” obliged to pay financial assistance to the orphanage in multiple amounts. After this, the doctor was under the close attention of security forces. The administration put pressure on him in every possible way through the deputy chief physician for ideology.
According to the prosecution , Oleg Zykun deliberately and illegally distributed personal data of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The personal data itself was presumably taken from the Telegram channel “Nexta” (because similar information was posted there). And then he “distributed” them on the local network at work, which was discovered in the summer of 2023. By the summer of 2023, Zykun himself had no idea that in his folder on the local work network there was a file with the names and telephone numbers of Ministry of Internal Affairs employees. But this list was found as part of an administrative case in July 2023 during an inspection of the man’s equipment.
At the trial, Zykun admitted his actions. But he did not admit the intent to disseminate data from employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (which the state prosecution insists on).
1.5 years of restriction of freedom in a colony under general regime conditions.
Tamara has 4 minor children.
Tamara, under Article 342, Part 1, was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 1 year, to this punishment the court partially added the unserved part of the sentence imposed by the verdict of the Leninsky District Court of Minsk dated June 30, 2022 under Part 2 of Art. 206 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus , and the final punishment was imposed in the form of imprisonment for a period of 2 years 6 months, to be served in a correctional colony under general regime conditions.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
On March 6, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
Katerina has a little daughter waiting at home.
unknown years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The essence of the case and the verdict were commented on by the assistant prosecutor of Brest on state television. From the video and the prosecutor’s commentary, it follows that Sankovskaya was charged with the following: in 2020 and 2021, in one telegram chat she published an image of the state flag of Belarus, and in the background there was a Nazi swastika (this was a “desecration of state symbols”), and also again in Telegram messenger published an “insulting” message about Yuri Karaev (remember that from June 2019 to the end of October 2020 Karaev was the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after which he took the post of Assistant to the President for the Grodno region), and also in the Telegram messenger published several messages about A. Lukashenko, which were also considered “offensive.”
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The first episode happened back in January 2022. Then Baranovsky made a transfer from his bank account to an unnamed structure recognized as an extremist formation. The exact amount of the transfer is unknown. In April 2022, Baranovsky made a donation to the account of the Kalinovsky Regiment. It is known that the man was detained in the spring of 2023 by employees of the Office of the State Security Committee for the Mogilev region.
Trial outcome 22.11.2023: 5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 09.01.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Programmer from Brest. Recently I lived in Poland. Detained after arriving in Belarus. On November 8, 2023, a telegram channel close to the Brest GUBOP released a “repentance video” with a man, where he said that he was detained for “numerous offensive comments.”
Solomiyuk was tried under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for publicly insulting A. Lukashenko. Before the trial, the man was also charged with Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting government officials), but due to the expired statute of limitations, this article was removed. As a result, the man was tried for several online comments that negatively assessed Lukashenko.
On April 23, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 14.02.2024: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 23.04.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 08.12.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 30.01.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 23.10.2023: unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 19.12.2023: the sentence was upheld.
On December 22, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Most likely the sentence involves imprisonment.
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There are no details of the criminal case yet, it is only known that the Mogilev resident left a comment about Lukashenko in one of the telegram channels recognized by the authorities of the Republic of Belarus as “extremist”.
On January 11, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 12.10.2023: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 11.01.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Andrei was detained on September 27, and later a search was carried out at his home, during which a computer and other equipment were removed.
Tolchin has been repeatedly detained and tried for his journalistic activities since 2017. After the protests of 2020, the journalist decided to leave the profession.
The latest posts on Andrei's Facebook page are reposts of helping animals, photos with friends and acquaintances. Also, Andrei’s sister, who raised him in infancy, recently died.
On May 24, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 21.03.2024: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 24.05.2024: the sentence was upheld.
Was convicted for 3 comments in a telegram.
Alexey has three small children (3, 4 and 5 years old).
2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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.”
Trial outcome 24.10.2023: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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