Dmitriy Viktorovich Shurin
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Dmitriy Viktorovich Shurin
He passed sentences on the second and fourth “ten” in the “round dance case.” Sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 6 months of “domestic chemicals.” He sentenced a woman to a year in prison for “publicly insulting” Lukashenko at home. In 2020, he issued fines and days of arrest to Belarusians. In 2019, he tried a human rights activist for “feeding pigeons.”
He passed sentences on the second and fourth “ten” in the “round dance case.” Sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 6 months of “domestic chemicals.” He sentenced a woman to a year in prison for “publicly insulting” Lukashenko at home. In 2020, he issued fines and days of arrest to Belarusians. In 2019, he tried a human rights activist for “feeding pigeons.”
List of repressed
According to the court report , the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, deliberately obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
This is already the 14th group of people who have been convicted under Article 342 of the Criminal Code for the protests of that day in Brest.
According to the court report , the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, deliberately obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
This is already the 14th group of people who have been convicted under Article 342 of the Criminal Code for the protests of that day in Brest.
A special forces detachment burst into Alexey’s home, they knocked the man to the floor and one security officer sat with his knees on Samoiluk’s body (with one knee on Samoiluk’s neck).
The pro-government channel claims that Samoiluk “threw stones at the police during the riots.” In that publication on the same channel they also posted photographs: in one picture there are two people in hoods and masks, one holding a Ukrainian flag, the second a sheet of paper with the text “Brest residents with Ukraine.”
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- Twice political prisoners
Dmitry was a witness in the case of Brest political prisoners and bloggers Sergei Petrukhin and Alexander Kabanov, who were sentenced to three years in prison in April 2021. As he told Brest human rights activists, the criminal case against him was opened for refusing to answer questions from the judge hearing Petrukhin and Kabanov's case because the judge had failed to present his official identification. In September 2021, Dmitry was found guilty of "refusing or evading testimony" and sentenced to arrest.
He was released in February 2022, having fully served his sentence.
In December 2024, Dmitry was convicted again under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
Vladimir was convicted in December 2024 under the article "organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
It is known that Victoria was detained in October 2020 during the post-election protest, the Sunday Partisan March. In December 2024, she was convicted of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
Alexander was convicted in December 2024 under the article "organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
According to the court report , the essence of the charge against everyone was that on August 10, 2020, people in Brest "shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, deliberately obstructed the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.
This is already the 14th group of people who have been convicted under Article 342 of the Criminal Code for the protests of that day in Brest.
Ilya was detained by security forces in August 2024 for participating in a post-election protest that took place in Brest in August 2020. A video appeared on a pro-government Telegram channel in which Ilya says that on August 10, 2020, he "stupidly went to Brest." He said he went out onto the roadway where "people were throwing stones, setting off fireworks, and building barricades." He also stated that he was at the protest with a friend who was already "serving a sentence."
In December 2024, Ilya was convicted under the article "organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2025.
Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2025.
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Nikita, Larisa Yakhimovich's son, was arrested in March 2024 as part of a criminal case opened following the spontaneous protests that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020, against voter fraud in the presidential election. He was convicted of "participating in group actions that grossly violate public order."
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
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- Parents of minors
Igor worked in Poland as an electrician. He was detained while crossing the Polish-Belarusian border.
In a pro-government video, Sorokin says that he went out onto the roadway and blocked traffic. The video is obviously from the protest action on August 10, 2020, which took place in Brest. Specifically, the moment of the skirmish at the intersection of the boulevards and Masherov Avenue.
According to human rights activists, he was released on May 9, 2025.
Natalia was convicted in August 2021 in a criminal case opened on charges of insulting Lukashenko and destroying official documents. According to the prosecution, police officers arrived at Natalia's home on May 27, 2021. There, according to investigators, she "publicly insulted" Lukashenko with the words "we have a f*cking state" and "a f*cking president," thereby committing a crime, according to the prosecution. An hour later, investigators conducted a search of her apartment. During the search, the prosecution alleges, Natalia, "wanting to express her superiority and permissiveness," tore up the police report, thereby "damaging an official document."
She was released in March 2022 as part of a pardon.