Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 29 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 22 days of administrative arrest, at least 810 rubles in fines and at least 61 years of imprisonment or restriction of freedom were imposed.
Considered behind closed doors the case of political prisoner Sofia Sapieha.
He made a decision on imprisonment for a period of 3 years against a resident of Smorgon, Alexander Nagello, for leaving 13 comments about cruelty and illegal actions of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Article 130 of the Criminal Code - inciting social hatred against police officers).
He also imposes the harshest punishments on participants in protests against Lukashenko’s regime.
Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 29 politically motivated decisions, for which at least 22 days of administrative arrest, at least 810 rubles in fines and at least 61 years of imprisonment or restriction of freedom were imposed.
Considered behind closed doors the case of political prisoner Sofia Sapieha.
He made a decision on imprisonment for a period of 3 years against a resident of Smorgon, Alexander Nagello, for leaving 13 comments about cruelty and illegal actions of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Article 130 of the Criminal Code - inciting social hatred against police officers).
He also imposes the harshest punishments on participants in protests against Lukashenko’s regime.
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.
The man was accused of leaving a comment in Belarusian in the corporate chat of one of the social networks of a large freight transportation company, in which he explained that: “our flag is white-red-white”; and called today’s: “sunrise over a swamp.”
Pavel wrote the comment while he was in Western Europe on a flight after which he returned to Belarus.
Pavel Dubov from Minsk, married, has a child under three. The man filed an appeal against the sentence to the regional court.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 16.03.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Citizen of the Russian Federation. Elena has two minor daughters (born in 2014 and 2015).
Before the trial, she was heldin pretrial detention for 8months .
In March 2023, it became known about Elena's serious condition in IK-4, where she was serving her sentence. "For example, when Elena was once in a very serious condition, she was not given medical care, although everything was extremely bad. She had a temperature of almost 40, she was delirious, then she started having problems with her joints, an abscess. But then she was not even assigned to the medical unit, the prisoners themselves took her there,"said one of the former prisoners.
She was releasedon October 29, 2024,having served her entiresentence.
Yulia was first convicted, along with her husband, of "participating in group actions grossly violating public order" in a criminal case opened following a protest that took place on September 13, 2020, in Brest. During the protest, people were singing and dancing in circles, but a water cannon was used against them. The court sentenced Yulia to a restricted freedom order in the form of "house arrest."
Several months later, on October 13, 2021, her home was searched, after which she was detained in connection with a new criminal case and placed in pretrial detention. She was convicted a second time in July 2022 on six criminal charges, accused of providing information about officials involved in the criminal prosecution of her family. The court sentenced Yulia to imprisonment and a fine. On appeal, the court reduced her prison term by only three months and reduced the fine. Ultimately, her final sentence was 4 years and 9 months.
In January 2025, it became known that Yulia had been tried for a third time under the article on “assisting extremist activity.”
In the fall of 2025 , she was released, having fully served her sentence.
Alexey was convicted in July 2021 for an "offensive" comment on a social network addressed to Timur Pakhomenko, head of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Mogilev, which he left back in the winter of 2020. The court sentenced him to restricted freedom with a referral.
In September 2022, the punishment was toughened and the restriction of freedom was replaced by a penal colony.
In March 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence.
Trial outcome 06.07.2021
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 1000 rubles of compensation.
Sofia, a student at the European Humanities University and a citizen of the Russian Federation, was detained in May 2021 after the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk by Belarusian authorities. The plane was en route from Athens to Vilnius. Sofia was accused of administering the Telegram channel "Black Book of Belarus", which published personal data and information about the private lives of civil servants.
At the end of December 2021, she was finally charged under seven articles of the Criminal Code, after which the case was referred to court.
The case was heard behind closed doors. In May 2022, Sofia was found guilty of two criminal charges. Following the trial, she was sentenced to imprisonment and ordered to pay compensation to the victims and court fees totaling about $70,000. The entire amount was subsequently paid by her family.
Sofia was released in June 2023 as part of a pardon.
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