Detained for participating in protests with his wife . Convicted of 3 counts.
11/12/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
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Convicted for the comment "The Kingdom of Heaven to them!", written in the group "ATN: News of Belarus and the World" under the video recording of the story "In Belarus they said goodbye to hero pilots Andrei Nichiporchik and Nikita Kukonenko" from the territory of the Russian Federation, where he was at that time , in the social network Facebook.
Sergei was released from custody in the courtroom. As a result, the pensioner spent two months more in custody than was appointed by the court, but compensation in this case is not provided for by law.
3 months of arrest
Daria was detained on June 16. First, the girl was sentenced to 11 days in an administrative case. After her arrest, Daria went to the police department to pick up the phone, but there she was re-detained on a criminal case. The basis for initiating the case was photographs from peaceful protests in 2020, Tik-Tok videos and private correspondence.
She was released at the end of the summer of 2023 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Vyacheslav was detained on March 22, 2022, allegedly for disobeying employees. The court appointed 15 days of administrative arrest, after which Vyacheslav was charged under the first part of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for a comment in social networks. He was placed in custody.
12/01/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Goalkeeper of the football club «Smena» (Volkovysk). An employee of JSC «Bellakt», a public activist.
It follows from the materials of the prosecution that Yuri in the «STOP LUKA» community, which is recognized as an extremist formation, posted an image of a red-green flag against the background of Nazi symbols (swastikas), the semantic content of the image of which is the author's opinion that Nazi ideology is used in the administration of the Republic of Belarus. Yuri did not actually admit his guilt in court, he explained that he did not intend to mock the national flag and only accidentally liked it.
Initially, an administrative case was brought against Yuri under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code and punished with a fine, and later a criminal case was also initiated. Yuri has a minor child
Released in early autumn 2023 upon expiration of his sentence.
1 year of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Convicted for a comment on the Internet insulting a representative of the authorities.
Trial outcome 18.01.2022: 2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Appeal 15.03.2022: unknown.
Former employee of the Minsk Tractor Plant.
On December 13, 2022, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
On October 28, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
According to the materials of the prosecution, Oleg Krichkovsky, being at his place of residence, on the evening of December 31, 2020, under the image of Alexander Lukashenko in vk.com during the presentation of the highest insignia of the special police unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs — a black beret — he left an offensive comment, which, according to the expert opinion, is a non-normative form of speech expression and carries a negative assessment of Lukashenko.
Krichkovsky refused the services of a lawyer, and explained to the court that on New Year's Eve he drank a glass and under the influence of emotions left an offensive comment, which he later completely forgot. Therefore, I was surprised when in May 2022 he was called to the police department, where he was familiarized with the contents of the message. At the same time, he was detained.
In the summer of 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.
27.11.2023 | Освобожден по сроку |
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
In August 2022, Sergei was sentenced to 15 days of arrest for a repost from a telegram channel recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus.
But after the administrative arrest, Sergei did not leave the IVS: he was charged with criminal article 130. As it became known, the case was already going to court, forensic examinations were carried out — but suddenly the man was charged with another criminal article. This time according to Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
The first sentence was pronounced on 11/28/2022 , Sergei is waiting for a second trial.
3 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
He lived in Ukraine for many years, and in 2019 he married a Ukrainian woman there. A daughter was born into the family. Dmitry did not serve in the Belarusian army, but in Ukraine he was taken into the Armed Forces of Ukraine, into the supply service. So the man found himself in the demarcation zone as a watchman; his tasks included guarding a military warehouse. He worked there from March to October 2021, at the junction between the self-proclaimed DPR/LPR and the territory controlled by Ukraine.
When Dmitry lost his Belarusian passport, he contacted the Belarusian embassy in Kyiv, where he was given a temporary document to replace his passport. The embassy also advised to come to the Republic of Belarus for a full-fledged passport - and Dmitry returned to his homeland in October 2021.
Immediately after crossing the border, Zhunusov was detained. For two days without a break, he was interrogated by the KGB on the topic of “terrorism” and “transportation of weapons” from Ukraine to Belarus.
No such facts were found, but on October 25, 2021, the man was transferred from the Brest temporary detention center to the Brest pre-trial detention center. And they accused him of “mercenarism” (Part 1 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus).
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024.
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
The reason for the detention was a comment in the networks regarding A.G. Lukashenko.
Victor is an orphan.
Trial outcome 02.12.2022: 2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 14.02.2023: the sentence was upheld.
The judge considered that two years had passed since the crime was committed on August 17, 2020, and this is the statute of limitations under the article for insult, so there is nothing to punish Artyom for. Moreover, insult is not a socially dangerous crime.
The case was dismissed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
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Convicted for knocking down an attacking representative of law enforcement agencies during a protest action.
Released after the end of his sentence in the fall of 2022.
2.5 years in prison.
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