Zmitser Uladzimiravich Balaba
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Zmitser Uladzimiravich Balaba
Chief of the Special Police Unit of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee, police colonel.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Dmitry Vladimirovich Balaba is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repression.
In 2016, he became Chief of the OMON. From that point on, he oversaw the dispersal of protests and the arrest of opposition members. He was personally present at all protests. He frequently threatened activists and ordered his subordinates to commit violent acts against specific individuals.
On August 9, 2020, he commanded all OMON actions.
His soldiers participated in the murder of Roman Bondarenko.
On August 10, 2020, at approximately 2:30 a.m., a man was detained at 8 V. Khoruzhey Street in Minsk by unidentified officers of the OMON GUVD of the Minsk City Executive Committee, led by D.V. Balaba, who inflicted a gunshot wound on him and tortured him during his transfer to the local police department, as well as on the premises of the Zavodskoy RUVD building in Minsk at 8 V. Khoruzhey Street. Kabushkina 36.
Unidentified police officers from the 1st Platoon, 6th Company, of the Special Purpose Mobile Unit (OMON) of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee (identification badge "761"), while on duty on August 10, 2020, acting in excess of their official authority, at approximately 7:30 PM, unjustifiably detained a protester and a group of other citizens in Victory Park in Minsk. They then tortured them in a special vehicle and, together with officers from the temporary detention facility of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee (Minsk, 1st Okrestina Lane, 36A), on the premises of the detention facility where the detainees were taken and held until August 12, 2020. These actions were committed on the orders of Police Colonel Dmitry Vladimirovich Balaba, OMON Commander of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee.
Chief of the Special Police Unit of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee, police colonel.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Dmitry Vladimirovich Balaba is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repression.
In 2016, he became Chief of the OMON. From that point on, he oversaw the dispersal of protests and the arrest of opposition members. He was personally present at all protests. He frequently threatened activists and ordered his subordinates to commit violent acts against specific individuals.
On August 9, 2020, he commanded all OMON actions.
His soldiers participated in the murder of Roman Bondarenko.
On August 10, 2020, at approximately 2:30 a.m., a man was detained at 8 V. Khoruzhey Street in Minsk by unidentified officers of the OMON GUVD of the Minsk City Executive Committee, led by D.V. Balaba, who inflicted a gunshot wound on him and tortured him during his transfer to the local police department, as well as on the premises of the Zavodskoy RUVD building in Minsk at 8 V. Khoruzhey Street. Kabushkina 36.
Unidentified police officers from the 1st Platoon, 6th Company, of the Special Purpose Mobile Unit (OMON) of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee (identification badge "761"), while on duty on August 10, 2020, acting in excess of their official authority, at approximately 7:30 PM, unjustifiably detained a protester and a group of other citizens in Victory Park in Minsk. They then tortured them in a special vehicle and, together with officers from the temporary detention facility of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee (Minsk, 1st Okrestina Lane, 36A), on the premises of the detention facility where the detainees were taken and held until August 12, 2020. These actions were committed on the orders of Police Colonel Dmitry Vladimirovich Balaba, OMON Commander of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee.
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Igor was arrested in October 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under several articles, including "violence or threat of violence against an official performing official duties or another person performing a public duty."
According to investigators, Igor sent emails to Lukashenko's official website containing threats of violence and posted insults against government officials, including law enforcement officers, and sent similar messages to employees of the Investigative Committee. He also participated in post-election protests in Minsk in 2020.
In June 2022, he was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony. It is also known that the "victims" of the security forces have filed claims for compensation for moral damages.
Yuri was first found guilty in July 2021 of a criminal offense under the article "insulting a government official." According to the charges, on January 12, 2021, he left an offensive comment under a photograph of police officer Anton Yanushkevich on the Telegram channel "Punishermen of Belarus." Furthermore, on March 5, 2021, Yuri left another offensive comment under a photograph of OMON commander Dmitry Balaba on the Telegram channel "Belarus of the Brain."
In November 2021, Yuri was convicted again of "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open correctional facility. He began serving his sentence in March 2022.
In December 2022, Yuri was placed in pretrial detention on a new criminal case opened under three articles, including "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer." On December 23 of that year, he was found guilty for the third time and finally sentenced to five years of restricted freedom.
He was released on March 20, 2026, as part of a pardon following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, on March 19 (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).