Considered at least 6 complaints against sentences of politically motivated decisions of previous instances - the sentences were left unchanged.
Ignores obvious violations in politically motivated sentences.
Complaints regarding illegal decisions of previous instances are left unsatisfied.
Considered an appeal against the verdict in the case of the anarchist group “Pramen”. The verdict was left unchanged.
Considered at least 6 complaints against sentences of politically motivated decisions of previous instances - the sentences were left unchanged.
Ignores obvious violations in politically motivated sentences.
Complaints regarding illegal decisions of previous instances are left unsatisfied.
Considered an appeal against the verdict in the case of the anarchist group “Pramen”. The verdict was left unchanged.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 07.02.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
And, as follows from the court's press release , Article 342 was charged to Navtsena for participating in the protests that took place in Pinsk from August 9 to 10, 2020. In addition, he was accused of writing offensive online comments in 2022 about A. Lukashenko, about a certain "official holding a responsible position", and also of writing "inciting hatred" comments about security forces in 2022. "Discrediting Belarus" also happened on the Internet: in November 2022, the man "posted a negative comment that formed a negative image of martial law" in Belarus.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.12.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The man is 50 years old. He was the founder or director of several organizations involved in the import of computers and their components. Recently he was Deputy Director for Commercial Affairs of the Avard Service company and Director of the SunRan company.
It is not known exactly when he was detained , but more than six months ago. The KGB included Rushkevich on the list of participants in the “extremist formation Trielite,” as well as businessman Vladimir Balabanovich, who is on trial for calls for sanctions.
The chat was probably opened because of one of the detainees.
Trial outcome 23.05.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.08.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Mother of political prisoner blogger Olga Tokarczuk (was released in June 2022 after serving her sentence). She was detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On February 6, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 04.12.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 06.02.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
KGB Lieutenant Colonel, Deputy Commander of Unit "A" of the KGB of the Republic of Belarus. In August 2020, he headed the Association of Veterans of Group "A", on behalf of which he signed an appeal condemning violence and repression. In the fall of 2020, he was detained by KGB officers and placed in custody. The criminal case is classified "secret".
Trial outcome date unknown
7 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 27.12.2022
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
An employee of the «Baranovichi department of the Belarusian Railway», as well as the «Lida Locomotive Depot».
According to the case file, in the period from November 2020 to January 2022, the man posted messages in the communities of the vk.com social network containing insults and threats of violence against Lukashenko.
He also, in February 2022, posted messages aimed at inciting national and other social discord and hostility against the Russian military.
Trial outcome 19.08.2022
4 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 18.10.2022
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Artem was arrested in February 2024 and convicted under the article on "financing the activities of an extremist group." He was held in a pretrial detention center before the trial.
He has two higher educations, worked as a programmer, was involved in photography and owned a company renting photo and video equipment.
It is currently known that he is being prosecuted again in connection with a new criminal case under the article “organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them.”
Grodno human rights activist and journalist Vladimir Khilmanovich has not lived in Belarus for two and a half years. But on December 1, 2023, a search was conducted in the apartment of Vladimir Khilmanovich’s wife, where he lived from 2014 to 2021, and a criminal case was opened.
Trial outcome 19.08.2024
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 1000 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
The girl is a citizen of Ukraine, originally from the city of Kherson. She studied in China, graduated from the university there in 2015, and in 2016 moved to Belarus. In Belarus she worked as a translator from Chinese.
Ekaterina was detained while crossing the Belarusian border. They demanded that she give her phone for verification; she provided it to the employees along with the passwords. Belarusian security forces found that on March 30, 2022, she sent 2 videos to the chatbot of the Zerkalo editorial office. The video showed the movement of Russian military equipment near Minsk, which she herself captured.
On December 12, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
On the evening of June 28, 2024, sudden information appeared about the release of five political prisoners from Belarusian colonies. The Ukrainian authorities achieved the release of their exchange citizens as prisoners. This is how Natalya Zakharenko, Pavel Kuprienko, Lyudmila Goncharenko, Ekaterina Bryukhanova, as well as Nikolai Shvets, a defendant in the “Machulishchi case,” were released. The terms of the exchange were not disclosed. It is noted that the Vatican took part in the liberation. The released political prisoners were brought to Ukraine on June 28 - their photo from the Zhulyany airport appeared in the media.
Trial outcome 13.10.2023
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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