On March 27, brothers Sergey and Ivan Bryusov were returning home along Independence Avenue. Military equipment was passing by, which they decided to photograph. In the Pervomaisky District Department of Internal Affairs, two protocols were drawn up against them at once: under Art. 24.23 and 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses are “rally” and “disobedience”. At the trial, the brothers asked not to punish them for days, as their mother had recently suffered a stroke and she needed help. Judge Maksim Trusevich's verdict - 30 days each.
After administrative arrest, Ivan was transferred to a pre-trial detention center. What he is accused of is unknown.
Resident of Svetlogorsk. According to the text of the accusation, in November 2020, in the “Punishers of Belarus” group, he read that Lieutenant Colonel Vishnevsky D. D. (head of the IDN) of the Orsha District Department of Internal Affairs beat a girl, could not resist and left a comment like “you can beat a woman with a baton, but with me weak fight, bastard?
Resident of Zhabinka. Convicted on November 5, 2020 for throwing a bottle with a hot mixture towards the car of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Trial outcome:
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Inhabitant of Baranovichi. On August 10, 2020, he threw a bottle with a burning mixture at an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Convicted November 9, 2020 .
Denis is a defendant in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests that took place on August 10, 2020 in Brest against the falsification of the presidential elections.
Dmitry was convicted in February 2021 for creating the Telegram channel "Data of the Punishers of Belarus", where he posted information about the security forces. All published materials were reposts. At the time of the verdict, he was only 15 years old.
Trial outcome date unknown
2 years imprisonment in a correctional colony under general regime conditions.
Nikita was arrested for spraying gas in the face of a riot police officer while he was trying to protect a man at a protest. He was beaten, had his hair cut with a knife, and had gas sprayed in his face. In December 2020, he was sentenced to four years of restricted freedom, but the prosecutor later succeeded in increasing the sentence to two and a half years in prison. Nikita did not appear in court, relaying through a friend that arbitrary detentions were planned in the courtroom, threatening him and others.
Was in forced exile.
At the end of March 2025, it became known that Nikita, who had been hiding from the verdict for four years at that time, was detained in Grodno. As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the man was stopped, he did not have documents with him, so he was asked to go to the station. Nikita resisted the police officers and, allegedly, broke the arm of one of them. It is reported that the man was wanted for allegedly "spraying a gas canister in the face of law enforcement officers" in August 2020. A criminal case was opened against him for this. He left the country, but then illegally returned to Belarus.
Trial outcome 11.12.2020
4 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 500 rubles of compensation.
Prosecutor's appeal 25.03.2021
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 2000 rubles of compensation.
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