All persecuted

He was detained for a chat-roulette conversation with Yuri Komar.

During the conversation, he asked Ukrainians for weapons, and to Komar's question: «Are you going to kill supporters of the current government?»; he answered: «Yes».

Dmitry was detained together with a friend — white-red-white flags were put on their heads, and then they were forced to wash the floor with these flags.

An appeal hearing was held on September 19, 2023. The verdict came into force.

Evgeny Vasilevsky was detained almost a year ago in Moscow, from March 25 to April 7, 2022, he was sentenced to administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding mass events).

The essence of the accusation is still unknown. Probably, we are talking about the transfer of personal data of security forces to protest chats.

In the fall of 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Former police officer Alexander Sazonov and Yevgeny Vasilevsky were detained almost a year ago, on February 27, 2022, in Minsk, and on March 1, both were punished with administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding mass events).

The Pervomaisky District Court of Minsk sentenced Sazonov to 13 days of arrest for participating in a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Vasilevsky to 15 days.

The essence of the accusation is still unknown. It is likely that it concerns the transfer of personal data of security officials to protest chats.

According to human rights activists , he was released on September 9, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

On January 9, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court considered the case of two Gomel residents, Vladislav Yatsenko and Kirill Plakushchev. According to the investigation, one of them repeatedly posted on one of the social networks publications calling for participation in the Kastus Kalinovsky battalion, "Azov" and other formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also transferred 21 euros for the Kastus Kalinovsky battalion. Both guys were also accused of making cynical inscriptions and drawings on the walls of buildings. The court assessed the damage at 130 rubles.

According to human rights activists , he was released on May 7, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Dmitry Solovyanchik worked as a courier for Kuprienko's company. A story on a pro-government channel claims that he also filmed a video of the movement of military equipment and passed it on to Kupriyenko, "not knowing what they were for him."

According to the materials of the prosecution, Bobkov, in February 2022, posted a publication on social networks with a video recording of the movement of vehicles of paramilitary Russian units moving through the territory of the Republic of Belarus, indicating their location. Then, using a mobile phone, he sent it to telegram channels, including those recognized by the court as extremist formations.

Before the trial, Bobkov was at large, under surety. Artyom was taken into custody in the courtroom.

Citizen of Ukraine. Larisa Krupa is involved in the case along with Zakharenko. The women are accused under articles of failure to report a crime (Part 2 of Article 406 of the Criminal Code) and espionage (Article 358 of the Criminal Code). The trial will be held behind closed doors.

Natalya has been traveling to Belarus since the second half of 2022. She helped Ukrainians who were stuck in Belarus and could not get out on their own, leave the country. She traveled to Belarus in her own car. Zakharanka helped smuggle about 30 people out of Belarus.

During another trip to Belarus, the woman disappeared. She stopped communicating on July 17, 2023.

It is known that, in addition to the prison term, the court decided to confiscate Natalya’s minibus.

Her friend, Belarusian from Mozyr Larisa Krupa, was awarded a fine of 100 basic units (4 thousand Belarusian rubles) for “failure to report a crime.”

The circumstances of the accusation are unknown, as are the details of the trial; the trial was closed.

On May 24, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

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.

He was convicted because Zhodino policeman Nikolai Baranovsky considered himself insulted by his comment on social networks. At the trial, Dmitry Ivanov admitted his guilt and apologized to the policeman. He paid compensation for moral damage in the amount of one thousand rubles before the trial. Ivanov could not sit during the trial because of pain in his kidneys. Dmitry was released in the courtroom. The prosecutor asked the court to sentence the accused to two years in prison. On the day of the verdict, the man had a son.

Disagreeing with the punishment imposed due to its leniency, the Cherikov District Prosecutor filed an appeal. By decision of the Criminal Cases Panel of the Mogilev Regional Court, Ivanov was given a more severe punishment.

According to human rights activists , he was released on February 25, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

As it became known from the court ruling, Anastasia, after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, moved from Belarus to Poland. While in a neighboring country, she tried to donate $16.71 from her Belarusian bank account via Internet banking to the Kalinovsky regiment, but the transaction did not go through.

Later, the political prisoner decided to return to Belarus, where she was detained. It should be noted that at the time of the transfer of funds by Anastasia, the Kalinovsky regiment was not recognized as an "extremist formation."

Dmitry lived in Ukraine for a long time, and in 2019 he married a Ukrainian woman there. He did not serve in the Belarusian army, but in Ukraine he joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a supply officer. From March to October 2021, he worked as a guard at a military warehouse in the demarcation zone between the DPR/LPR and the territory controlled by Ukraine.

In the fall of 2021, having lost his Belarusian passport, Dmitry went to the embassy in Kyiv, where he was issued a temporary document and advised to go to Belarus for a new passport. However, immediately after crossing the border, he was detained. For two days in a row, the KGB interrogated him on suspicion of "terrorism" and "weapons transportation."

No facts were found, but Dmitry was transferred from the temporary detention facility to a pretrial detention center and a case of "mercenarism" was opened (Article 133 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). Later, the article was reclassified, and in March 2022, he was convicted of "participation in military actions on the territory of a foreign state without the authorization of Belarus." During his stay in the pretrial detention center, Dmitry's daughter was born.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence.