Eugene Anatolevich Bregan
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Eugene Anatolevich Bregan
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 58 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 29 days of administrative arrest, at least 1,890 rubles in fines, and at least 40 years of restriction or imprisonment were imposed.
Judge in the “round dance case.”
The spouses Elena Movshuk (judge's decision of 6 years of imprisonment) and Sergei (decision of 6 and a half years of imprisonment), who were both accused in the “round dance case,” have minor children. One girl was adopted. The youngest daughter, who is 5 years old, lived with her father before the trial; he was under house arrest. Today in court, Sergei Mavshuk learned that the child was taken to an orphanage while he went to Brest for trial.
He sentenced Vladimir Shurbeiko to two years in prison for insulting the government rat Semyonov Denis.
He handed down verdicts in the Pinsk case. 14 political prisoners were sentenced to 5.5 to 6.5 years in a maximum security colony for “participation in mass riots on the night of August 9-10 in Pinsk.”
He passed a verdict of insulting Samosyuk and 4 other policemen.
He sentenced Maxim Smirnov to 2 years of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open institution for “slander” against the riot police commander Mikhovich.
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 58 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 29 days of administrative arrest, at least 1,890 rubles in fines, and at least 40 years of restriction or imprisonment were imposed.
Judge in the “round dance case.”
The spouses Elena Movshuk (judge's decision of 6 years of imprisonment) and Sergei (decision of 6 and a half years of imprisonment), who were both accused in the “round dance case,” have minor children. One girl was adopted. The youngest daughter, who is 5 years old, lived with her father before the trial; he was under house arrest. Today in court, Sergei Mavshuk learned that the child was taken to an orphanage while he went to Brest for trial.
He sentenced Vladimir Shurbeiko to two years in prison for insulting the government rat Semyonov Denis.
He handed down verdicts in the Pinsk case. 14 political prisoners were sentenced to 5.5 to 6.5 years in a maximum security colony for “participation in mass riots on the night of August 9-10 in Pinsk.”
He passed a verdict of insulting Samosyuk and 4 other policemen.
He sentenced Maxim Smirnov to 2 years of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open institution for “slander” against the riot police commander Mikhovich.
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Kirill's sentence, handed down in the summer of 2023, was announced in a local state television report. The report stated that the criminal case was based on a Telegram comment containing obscene language directed at Lukashenko, written in 2022. Kirill was sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
In December 2024, a new court hearing was announced regarding the issue of replacing the restricted freedom sentence with a prison term in a penal colony. The outcome of the hearing, as well as Kirill's presence, remains unknown.
Ilya was arrested and convicted in the spring of 2023 for "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open-type institution.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
According to the prosecutor , the Brest resident was accused of writing several insulting comments about government officials, including police officers, in the Telegram messenger in 2021.
Andrei is registered in the urban settlement of Ushachi (Vitebsk region), but in recent years he lived and worked in Russia. On September 23, 2022, he was detained in Moscow and placed in custody because Belarusian security forces put Andrei Nikolaevich on the international wanted list.
As was announced at the court in Brest, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office refused to extradite Protasevich to Belarus due to the absence of a crime in his actions under Russian law.
However, he was expelled from Russia under the procedure of "violation of migration legislation" and transferred to Belarus. In Belarus, Andrei Nikolaevich has been in custody since November 7, 2022. He was sentenced to three months of arrest for a comment on social networks.
It is known that Andrei had another trial, under Article 368 Part 1 (insulting Lukashenko). The outcome is unknown.
April 2, 2024 Andrey had his appeal reviewed. It is known that Andrey began serving his sentence.
In January 2025, he was released after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.
Maxim was found guilty of criminal defamation. According to the charges, on September 14, 2020, he used his mobile phone to post personal information about Brest OMON commander Maxim Mikhovich on a regional Telegram channel. The prosecution alleges that the published information was accompanied by text "containing slanderous, false, and defamatory information about the police officer."
Vladislav was found guilty in March 2021 of insulting a government official for posting flyers on residential buildings on Moskovskaya and Orlovskaya Streets in Brest. According to the charges, the flyers contained photographs of police officers and texts "contrary to universal morality" and "written in an obscene manner."
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Olga was arrested in December 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "financing group actions that grossly violate public order."
According to the investigation, from August 13 to December 19, 2020, Olga, along with other individuals, allegedly financed participants in unauthorized mass events by paying fines, legal fees, state fees, and providing other financial assistance.
In July 2022, Olga was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
She was released in July 2023, having fully served her sentence.
Timur was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order" in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place in Brest on September 13, 2020. During the protest, people were singing and dancing in circles, and a water cannon was used against them.
In the fall of 2022, as part of a special proceeding in Timur's case, a court hearing was held in absentia to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Since August 2020, Dmitry has been repeatedly subjected to political persecution by security forces: preventive detentions, searches, and fines.
He was first convicted in December 2020 of "stealing a radio" from a riot police officer during a protest and sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to a correctional facility.
In November 2021, Dmitry was again detained in connection with a criminal case opened under the articles "slander," "insulting a government official," and "insulting Lukashenko."
In January 2022, he was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony and a large fine.
He was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
resident of Brest, was convicted on October 14, 2021 by the Moskovsky District Court of Brest for writing on a house in Brest.
Released in October 2022 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Andrey, editor of the website "Virtual Brest," was found guilty in October 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left in the Telegram chat "Discussing Dangerous Brest" under a photo of House of Representatives member Igor Marzalyuk.
Alexander was convicted in September 2021 for a comment he left in a Telegram channel under a photograph of a public safety police officer from the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Brest.
According to human rights activists, he was released in November 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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Irina, a Russian citizen, was arrested on May 28, 2021, in Brest and convicted in September of that year for a tweet published on May 23. It contained a link to a LiveJournal post reprinting a BBC Russian Service report on the incident with the Ryanair flight carrying Roman Protasevich. She added her own headline to the reprint: "Lukashenko's latest crime: an act of state aviation piracy." The expression "an act of state aviation piracy" was used in the BBC text as a quote from the Greek Foreign Ministry's response.
On September 1, 2022, she was released after serving her sentence and immediately deported to Russia with a 10-year ban on entering Belarus.
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Alexander was convicted in June 2021 under the article for insulting a government official - for a comment left under a post in the "Punishermen of Belarus" group addressed to Brest police officer Shukailo. In March 2022, he was convicted again under the same article - for a comment addressed to the prevention inspector of the Nesvizh District Department of Internal Affairs Tatyana Kulbitskaya.