Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
He was convicted because during the protests on August 9-10, 2020, together with other people, he became a human chain of people connecting with his hands in the elbow area.
According to estimates of human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
She was detained on January 19, 2022 at the workplace under a criminal article. A year ago, Lyudmila was a witness in another criminal case, in which her home was searched by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption.
Lyudmila has a little child.
Trial outcome 31.05.2022
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Alexander was arrested on December 16, 2021, in connection with a criminal case involving group actions that grossly violate public order, and in March 2022, he was convicted of participating in protests that took place in Minsk in 2020.
Trial outcome 28.03.2022
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Former employee of the Prosecutor General's Office. He was tried under several articles of the Criminal Code: insulting a government official (Article 369), insulting the president (Article 368), insulting a judge (Article 391).
According to human rights activists, he will be released in 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 28.12.2021:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Detained for participating in protests. It is known that the security forces figured out Alexei from the photo - they detained a person who kept photos from the 2020 rally. 23 people were identified from this photo.
At the beginning of March 2022, the judge of the Moscow district, Sergei Katser, found Alexei guilty. The man was released in the courtroom before being sent to the IUOT, but left Belarus almost immediately.
Trial outcome:
3 years restriction of freedom with referral to an open correctional facility
2D artist from Vizor Games. The security forces recorded a βrepentant videoβ with Galina, in which she says that she was subscribed to Telegram channels recognized by the Belarusian authorities as extremist, and that in August 2020 she participated in protests and road closures.
Trial outcome:
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
Business Analyst at EPAM IT company. On December 10, the court arrested Nasuro's manager for 13 days under the article on the distribution of extremist materials (part 2 of article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Since December 31, Nasuro has been in pre-trial detention center No. 1. A criminal case was opened against him under the article on gross violation of order (Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code). Denis has 4 children.
31.01.2022
At home, Denis painted with oils and watercolors. Now he draws with pencils. He is also interested in languages - the origin of words, the similarity of languages, the origin of geographical names. He knows English, a little German. Interested in the history of Belarus.
Detained under Articles 130, 368 and 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 10, 2022, Judge Elena Shilk found Ivan guilty and sentenced him to four years in a general regime penal colony. He was soon transferred from Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 to Mogilev Prison No. 4.
At the end of September, Ivan was transferred to Correctional Colony No. 2 in Bobruisk, and soon to Brest Pretrial Detention Center No. 7. In December, the political prisoner was transferred to Pretrial Detention Center No. 1.
On December 29, 2022, the Frunzensky District Court of Minsk considered Ivan's case under Article 391 of the Criminal Code (insulting a judge). It is known that the trial was conducted by Judge Anna Skuratovich and the final sentence of the political prisoner has not changed.
In January 2023, Ivan was transferred from Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 to Mogilev Prison No. 4.
At the beginning of 2024 he was transferred to Penal Colony No. 1.
He was detained on December 10 and sentenced to administrative arrest. But after his release, he was not released. It is known that the security forces beat him.
After his arrest, a "repentant video" appeared on pro-government channels, in which he said that he allegedly passed on information related to his professional activities to third parties. But the company then stated that Nikolai did not have access to client data.
The trial was held behind closed doors, but it became known that Nikolai Bredelev was found not guilty under Part 2 of Article 424 of the Criminal Code (Abuse of power or official authority) and acquitted due to lack of evidence of participation in the commission of a crime.
He was accused of providing funds to deliberately support the activities of an extremist group (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code) — blogger Anton Motolko. Motolko denied this accusation.
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