Anatoly Aleksandrovich Zajac
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Anatoly Aleksandrovich Zajac
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 14 decisions, awarding at least 4 years of restriction or imprisonment. Also, the verdicts of the lower courts were left unchanged. On September 9, 2022, he handed down a verdict in the “Zeltzer case” to 37-year-old political prisoner Alexei Senko. Judge Anatoly Zayats found the man guilty under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a representative of government) and Part 1 of Art. 130 of the Criminal Code (Inciting social hostility or discord) and announced the verdict: two years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions for comments on the Internet. On July 5, 2022, the KGB added Alexey to the list of “persons involved in terrorist activities.” He sentenced Yuri Stanevsky, whom the KGB included in the list of persons involved in terrorist activities, to 7 years in prison for leaving a comment on social networks about two Russian paratroopers killed during an exercise in Belarus in November 2022. Like, I was emotional. A fine of 50 basic units was also imposed. According to the case materials, from July 15 to December 27, 2021, under publications in a destructive Telegram chat, Yuri Stanevsky posted messages aimed at inciting national, religious and other social hostility towards the social groups he identified in his messages, including persons of other nationalities and of a different religion. It also contained insults against Lukashenko, other government officials and their relatives, and threats were made against officials performing their official duties, including Lukashenko, and their relatives. The publications contained messages related to the desecration of the national anthem of the Republic of Belarus and the state flag of the Republic of Belarus. Articles Yuri reviewed: Part 1 Art. 368 – insult to the President of the Republic of Belarus; Part 370 – desecration of state symbols; Part 2 Art. 366 – violence or threat against an official performing official duties; Art. 369 – insult to a government official; Part 1 Art. 130 – incitement to other social hostility; Part 1 Art. 366 – violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty.
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 14 decisions, awarding at least 4 years of restriction or imprisonment. Also, the verdicts of the lower courts were left unchanged. On September 9, 2022, he handed down a verdict in the “Zeltzer case” to 37-year-old political prisoner Alexei Senko. Judge Anatoly Zayats found the man guilty under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (Insulting a representative of government) and Part 1 of Art. 130 of the Criminal Code (Inciting social hostility or discord) and announced the verdict: two years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions for comments on the Internet. On July 5, 2022, the KGB added Alexey to the list of “persons involved in terrorist activities.” He sentenced Yuri Stanevsky, whom the KGB included in the list of persons involved in terrorist activities, to 7 years in prison for leaving a comment on social networks about two Russian paratroopers killed during an exercise in Belarus in November 2022. Like, I was emotional. A fine of 50 basic units was also imposed. According to the case materials, from July 15 to December 27, 2021, under publications in a destructive Telegram chat, Yuri Stanevsky posted messages aimed at inciting national, religious and other social hostility towards the social groups he identified in his messages, including persons of other nationalities and of a different religion. It also contained insults against Lukashenko, other government officials and their relatives, and threats were made against officials performing their official duties, including Lukashenko, and their relatives. The publications contained messages related to the desecration of the national anthem of the Republic of Belarus and the state flag of the Republic of Belarus. Articles Yuri reviewed: Part 1 Art. 368 – insult to the President of the Republic of Belarus; Part 370 – desecration of state symbols; Part 2 Art. 366 – violence or threat against an official performing official duties; Art. 369 – insult to a government official; Part 1 Art. 130 – incitement to other social hostility; Part 1 Art. 366 – violence or threat against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty.
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The man was detained after 2021. Botvich was charged with two counts: "espionage" and "intelligence activity." The man in question is a 59-year-old man who, although not a Belarusian citizen, grew up and lived in Belarus. He is Sergei Ivanovich Botvich, the owner of companies with a combined turnover of hundreds of thousands of dollars, some of which were registered in the EU.
Sergei has done business in Belarus, Russia, France, and Lithuania (and holds citizenship in these countries )—primarily in tourism and wholesale coal exports from Eastern Europe to the Baltic and Western European countries. During the "fat years," Botvich's companies generated several hundred thousand dollars annually. In 2014, Botvich participated in a project to build a charcoal plant near the Svisloch River. Another major project of his was the purchase of the Bogudenki estate near the Svisloch River for $30,000.
"I was kept in solitary confinement for a year and a half, subjected to 10-hour cross-examinations, and deprived of food and water due to chronic illnesses—diabetes, post-thrombotic syndrome, hypertension, and gout," Botvich describes the conditions in his letter. According to him, Belarusian security forces wanted him to "incriminate himself about alleged espionage activities for Lithuania." He also wrote in the letter that the security services threatened his family, demanding that his wife and child come to Belarus and bring Sergei's work phone.
Former prisoners reported that Botvich works in the open air at the prison, performing low-skilled labor in all weather conditions, sawing boards with a two-handed saw or stripping wires and cables for non-ferrous metal. There is no building in the industrial zone where prisoners can hide or even temporarily warm themselves in the winter—the room where they change clothes is locked until evening.
People who were imprisoned in the same colony as Botvich speak of his poor health.
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
- Parents of minors
- Associations
- Foreign citizens
- Parents of minors
A Polish citizen was convicted of "intelligence activities" in the Republic of Belarus. In April 2023, Jerzy turned 58 years old. He comes from a border village near Bialystok, and has lived in Belarus since the 90s - he moved to Grodno after getting married. Until the verdict, his relatives were sure that this was a mistake and Jerzy would be released. The relatives of the accused still cannot understand how he attracted the attention of the security forces.
On June 21, 2025, Jerzy was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg.
Pavel Pashukevich was detained for comments in the "Dyatlovo for Life" Telegram chat.
The appeal hearing took place on May 18, 2023. The verdict entered into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024-25.
He was released upon completion of his term in May 2024 and died in August 2024. The cause of death is unknown.
In the apartment where the man lives with his wife and son, law enforcement officers knocked in the morning. Valery himself was not at home, he went out to the store with his dog. law enforcement officers found out where he was, checked the phones, and then forced both of them to move to another room and keep their heads down.
Judging by the sounds that came to the apartment from the entrance, when Valery approached his entrance about 40 minutes later, he was knocked face down into the ground, after which he was brought into the apartment for about half a minute. They tried to find out his phone password at home, and when the man refused to call him, they took him out of the apartment without any explanation
was detained on September 30, 2021 in Slonim in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
01.04.2023 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
| 13.11.2022 | Today, 11/13/22, Alexei called home after serving his second term in the ShIZO in a month and asked that no letters be written to him. Because it harms him. |
- Associations
- Entrepreneurs
- Parents of minors
- Associations
- Entrepreneurs
- Parents of minors
Vasily was detained and convicted under the article on "hooliganism" for allegedly using violence against aggressive supporters of Lukashenko and activists of the "Anti-Vandal" movement - Alexander Galakhov and Olga Bondareva, when they painted over the image of the white-red-white flag. Vasily did not admit guilt and refused to give the last word.
In April 2022, the court considered the appeal, as well as the prosecutor's appeal against the verdict in this case. The court did not satisfy Vasily's appeal, but partially satisfied the prosecutor's protest, replacing the punishment from imprisonment without referral to imprisonment with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
In July of the same year, the court granted Olga Bondareva’s civil claim and ordered Vasily to pay her compensation.
He was released in January 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.