Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Correctional Colony No. 1. Such actions include psychological and, in some cases, physical violence, illegal sending to solitary confinement, restrictions on correspondence and receiving parcels from persons in the institution. He exerted pressure on prisoner Ilya Baranovsky, which significantly worsened his health. It was under his leadership that Viktor Babariko was hospitalized from the colony to the city hospital on April 25, 2023. In this colony, convicts are systematically brutally beaten. Before becoming the head, he also took direct part in beating convicts, helping the former head of the colony.
Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Correctional Colony No. 1. Such actions include psychological and, in some cases, physical violence, illegal sending to solitary confinement, restrictions on correspondence and receiving parcels from persons in the institution. He exerted pressure on prisoner Ilya Baranovsky, which significantly worsened his health. It was under his leadership that Viktor Babariko was hospitalized from the colony to the city hospital on April 25, 2023. In this colony, convicts are systematically brutally beaten. Before becoming the head, he also took direct part in beating convicts, helping the former head of the colony.
He was allegedly detained at the end of November 2023. First, he was convicted under an administrative article ( Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus - Distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities), after which charges were brought in a criminal case.
On May 17, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 19.03.2024
1 year 3 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Seventeen people from Baranovichi were charged under the "people's" article. They were found guilty of participating in a march in Baranovichi on the night of August 10-11, 2020. They were allegedly on the roadway of the streets, shouting loudly, shouting "slogans" and "displaying" national flags.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2025, having served his full sentence.
Igor Zhivolun, a Ukrainian citizen, hails from the Sumy region of Ukraine. After the full-scale Russian invasion of his homeland and the occupation of his hometown of Nedryhayliv, he actively began spreading information on his Facebook page, helping to locate Ukrainian civilians and soldiers missing in the war, as well as various anti-war information and information about the participation of Belarusians in defending Ukraine from Russian aggressors.
He was released in early September 2025, after which he was deported to Ukraine.
Stanislav was detained upon returning to Belarus from Poland, where he had moved more than a year earlier. He came home in late 2023 to spend the holidays with his family, but was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened after protests on August 10, 2020, in Brest against the falsification of the presidential election. Stanislav was convicted of participating in “mass riots.”
In a pro-government confessional video published, he says that he "participated in protests and went out onto the roadway." The recording shows that Stanislav's face is scratched, although no such damage was visible when he was detained.
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.
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.
As it became known , according to the prosecution, on August 23, 2021, Alexander wrote a comment about Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko. The comment was under the news of the Belarus of the Brain channel. The comment said that Golovchenko and Russian official Mishustin "discussed integration documents."
The message was assessed under Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official). The prosecution requested one year in prison and a fine of 50 b.a. for this episode.
Another message was written in October 2021 in the LukhtaVikings Telegram chat. There, the prosecution saw an insult to Lukashenko, and the prosecutor requested another year in prison under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code.
On 08.12.2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists,he was releasedon December 8, 2024.
Trial outcome 06.10.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The harsh sentence in the criminal case is retaliation by the authorities for participating in a peaceful protest on August 9, 2020, against the results of the presidential election in the Republic of Belarus and serving on the strike committee at BMZ.
Recently, most of those convicted in Zhlobin under the same article received restricted freedom without being sent to open institutions. However, Alexey Avdeyev's case was handled very harshly. Two weeks before his criminal case was heard, the Zhlobin District Court deliberated an administrative case against the young man under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus.
Alexey is known for his active volunteer work during the COVID-19 pandemic, his role as one of the first to go on strike after the 2020 elections, his time coaching teenagers interested in motorsports and cross-country racing, and his own motorcycle construction.
On January 10, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
He was released in November 2025, having served his full sentence.
The reason for the criminal case was the reaction of “class” to a publication in Odnoklassniki in the STOP LUKA public page in April 2022, where an illustration of Alexander Lukashenko’s gravestone with the inscription “Lukashenko (Brechlo) Alexander Grigorievich. 08/30/1954-2022 was posted. To the one who LIES to his PEOPLE. From SOUTH UKRAINIANS."
It is known that Evgeniy was detained in July of this year. He was accused of “publicly insulting Alexander Lukashenko.”
Evgeniy’s wife and little daughter are waiting for him to be free.
Trial outcome 24.08.2023:
2 years in a penal colony under general regime conditions
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