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20 year old Vladislav was accused of taking photos and videos of military equipment, military personnel, as well as a military airfield in Bobruisk from February 24 to February 25, 2022.
Then Vladislav forwarded at least 9 video files and photos to a telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus.
According to pro-government telegram channels, four people were detained - they are called a "sleeper cell of extremists" who had "external connections" with Belarusian volunteers fighting in Ukraine. Among them is Igor.
All of them are from Gomel and, judging by their posts on social networks, have been friends for a long time, participating together in an international game of Beer Pong in Gomel.
After the brutal detention, the friends were forced to record a “repentance video” and say that they created a chat where they corresponded with each other, and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they allegedly insulted Lukashenko several times in correspondence, and also wrote “wrong” comments. Another accusation is that the guys “had external connections” with Belarusian volunteers who are fighting for Ukraine. Apparently, this was the basis for initiating a criminal case under the article “promoting extremist activities.”
On May 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
According to pro-government telegram channels, four people were detained - they are called a "sleeper cell of extremists" who had "external connections" with Belarusian volunteers fighting in Ukraine. Among them was Vladimir.
All of them are from Gomel and, judging by their posts on social networks, have been friends for a long time, participating together in an international game of Beer Pong in Gomel.
After the brutal detention, the friends were forced to record a “repentance video” and say that they created a chat where they corresponded with each other, and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they allegedly insulted Lukashenko several times in correspondence, and also wrote “wrong” comments. Another accusation is that the guys “had external connections” with Belarusian volunteers who are fighting for Ukraine. Apparently, this was the basis for initiating a criminal case under the article “promoting extremist activities.”
On May 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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Anastasia, a mother of three, was detained at the end of 2022 and was under house arrest until the trial. According to the investigation, in October 2022, Podgaiskaya allegedly repeatedly sent photo and video files with text messages to the bot of the destructive Telegram channel of the extremist group.
The information sent to her contained information about the situation in the regions of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, as well as planned activities at the combined arms training grounds.
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Yaroslav Kazakevich, a 27 year old resident of Orsha, accused of facilitating extremist activities.
According to the case materials, on December 8, 2022, the accused made a video file using a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone at the railway station «Orsha-Tsentralnaya», on which an echelon with Russian military equipment was recorded. Then Kazakevich, being in the carriage of a train of regional lines, distributed through the Internet the named video file in the Telegram channel, the information products of which had previously been recognized by the court as extremist materials.
On December 9, 2022, Yaroslav was detained by police officers and arrested by the Orsha district court for 15 days for the production and distribution of extremist materials. He was never released again.
On June 6, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.
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A 65-year-old businessman from the Gomel region was detained for anti-war messages insulting Lukashenko.
During the Soviet era, he studied in the Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog, worked at Mozyrpromstroy, and in 1992, together with friends, founded the company "Lotus", of which he is still a co-owner.
Starotitorov received letters of gratitude from the executive committee and the Orthodox Church and was included in the list of the best entrepreneurs of the Gomel region.
On 10.11.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
On November 28, 2023, he was added to the KGB's "terrorist list". On January 18, 2024, Pyotr was removed from the "terrorist list".
He was pardoned in January 2025.
The man, according to the materials of the prosecution, posted publications in Telegram in which he gave a negative assessment of Lukashenko — profanity was used in the messages. In them, the accused allegedly also called for violence against military man of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, law enforcement officers, incited national and social enmity: «Russian invaders participating in the forcible seizure of foreign state territory by military force».
Pavel is a resident of Gomel, studied at the Francysk Skaryna Gomel State University. An active player in the quiz.
With the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the man on his vk.com page actively spoke out against the war. Later, his page was blocked by the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.
Pavel's anti-war statements in social networks could be the reason for accusing him of inciting other social hostility.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in September 2023.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Citizen of Ukraine. The court found Pavel guilty of “undercover activity” in favor of Ukraine. Authorities accused him and two other men of sending data to Ukrainian military intelligence.
Propagandists claim that Kuprienko was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services. Taras Machinsky is accused of transmitting data on the deployment and movement of military equipment in Belarus to Kuprienko, and he, in turn, to the Ukrainian special services. It is reported that Dmitry Solovyanchik was “used in secret.” In the video they say that Dmitry filmed the movement of military equipment in Belarus and asked his relatives about it, and then passed it on to Kuprienko, “not knowing what they were for.”
On the evening of June 28, 2024, sudden information appeared about the release of five political prisoners from Belarusian colonies. The Ukrainian authorities achieved the release of their exchange citizens as prisoners. This is how Natalya Zakharenko, Pavel Kuprienko, Lyudmila Goncharenko, Ekaterina Bryukhanova, as well as Nikolai Shvets, a defendant in the “Machulishchi case,” were released. The terms of the exchange were not disclosed. It is noted that the Vatican took part in the liberation. The released political prisoners were brought to Ukraine on June 28 - their photo from the Zhulyany airport appeared in the media.
Taras was detained for talking in a chat-roulette with provocateur Yuri Komar.
In the video, Taras says that he supports Ukraine and its national heroes, and also wishes her victory. Employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption claim that for this he faces a criminal case for inciting hostility.
He was detained for talking to a provocateur in a chat-roulette, spoke out in support of Ukraine and admitted that he was in the «Peramoga» plan.
Works at the Minsk factory of wheeled tractors.
Karpeshko and two of his friends had their own private chat for three people. After the beginning of the military invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine, in March 2022, Michael left a comment in which he wrote about the experience that wars could begin on the territory of Belarus. For this message, the man was detained and convicted.
Witnesses at the trial were two other chat participants – friends of Karpeshko, who had previously been brought to administrative responsibility under Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus.
At the trial, the materials of the Karpeshko case indicated that the man had left a message in a «public chat in Telegram».