The Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the Brest Region. Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6, Regime Department. Head of Department, Major. Previously Deputy Head for Regime and Operational Work of the Brest Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7. Moves between Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6 and Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7, probably due to incoming complaints.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Shego Aleksandr Fomich is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions.
Shego Aleksandr personally beat detainees, created unbearable conditions of detention and came up with new rules of conduct in the pre-trial detention facility to put pressure on detainees.
The Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the Brest Region. Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6, Regime Department. Head of Department, Major. Previously Deputy Head for Regime and Operational Work of the Brest Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7. Moves between Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6 and Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7, probably due to incoming complaints.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Shego Aleksandr Fomich is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions.
Shego Aleksandr personally beat detainees, created unbearable conditions of detention and came up with new rules of conduct in the pre-trial detention facility to put pressure on detainees.
Nikolai was convicted of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" and was sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open facility. The circumstances and details of the case are unknown.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in November 2025.
Trial outcome 19.01.2024
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Vadim was convicted of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" and was sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open facility. The circumstances and details of the case are unknown.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in November 2025.
Trial outcome 19.01.2024
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
According to the indictment, Vladimir Lukyanchuk wrote an offensive comment in the telegram chat "Borodach Chat" on September 8, 2023. In the message, Alexander Grigorievich was called a word that means "chatterbox" (but in an obscene form).
According to human rights activists, he was released on September 12, 2024.
Detained along with other young people in Baranovichi (at the end of December 2023).
The court's press service announced the verdict (without naming names, but the circumstances fit this group of people). The charges were briefly stated: they were on the roadway in Baranovichi, shouting slogans, displaying white-red-white flags, and "intentionally obstructing traffic and the normal functioning of businesses and organizations." The exact date of the protests wasn't even specified, simply being referred to as "August 2020."
Thus, in 2024, 25 Baranovichi residents were sentenced for the August 2020 protests. All were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 1 to 3 years (the only exception was a woman with a child under 3, who received a suspended sentence).
He was scheduled to be released onOctober27,2025.
Trial outcome 31.05.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Detained along with other young people in Baranavichy (late December 2023).
Dmitry stood at the origins of the development of breakdancing in the city, was a member of the FSC, B-BAXSTER, "Vauki" teams, and also won the Belarusian breakdancing championship "Voice of the Streets". Now Mikhaltsevich teaches children and adults how to breakdance.
Trial outcome 10.07.2024
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The man was accused of writing several Internet comments about A. Lukashenko, which were considered a "public insult." The hearing took place at the Baranovichi State College of Light Industry. As a result, Tatsin was sentenced to 1 year in prison and handcuffed in front of college students, according to a report on state television.
On 30.01.2024, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 28.11.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
State TV reported on the details of the trials of the two men (Borisov Vadim Sergeevich and Volk Oleg Aleksandrovich). The voiceover said that one of the men, drunk, tore a state flag off a store on the evening of September 8, 2023 in the village of Novaya Mysh (Baranovichi district), damaging the fastening. He put the flag in a backpack and took it home. The police came for the man in the morning.
On 19.01.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he was released on June 9, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 31.10.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
On August 09, 2023, he was detained at an airport in the Russian Federation when he tried to fly to Georgia through Russia. Soon he was handed over to Belarusian law enforcement agencies and Alexander was taken into custody.
On December 15, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 12.10.2023:
1 year of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
On November 17, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force. However, on December 4, 2023, a new court hearing was held under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On February 13, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 13.09.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 17.11.2023
unknown.
Trial outcome 04.12.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the prosecution, after viewing a photograph posted in the public domain on Odnoklassniki with fixed text, where the honor and dignity of Lukashenko’s personality was humiliated in an indecent form and he was accused of committing a particularly serious crime (murder), Kozlovskaya posted the photograph on her page on the same social network, open for free viewing and copying to an unlimited circle of readers.
In court, Olga said that she sent a letter to Alexander Lukashenko, in which she apologized to him.
According to human rights activists, she was released in December 2023 upon expiration of her sentence.
Trial outcome 24.08.2023:
6 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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