The circumstances of the case, except for the verdict, are still unknown to human rights activists.
The accused Eremenko was found guilty of deliberate actions aimed at inciting ethnic and other social hatred on the basis of national and other social affiliation. He was also found guilty of knowingly putting another person at risk of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Trial outcome 10.05.2023:
5 years of imprisonment in a colony under a strict regime.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
According to the USC for the Mogilev region, Ruslan forwarded the video to the VKontakte public DVIZh, which was recognized by the Belarusian authorities as “extremist”. It is worth noting that the video itself lasts only 12 seconds and nothing actually happens in it - the train with military equipment just stands at the station.
After a while, the man was detained by the KGB. He was charged under part 1 of article 361-4 (assistance to extremist activity) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. The man faces up to 6 years in prison.
Trial outcome 24.07.2023:
unknown
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Zhanna was detained on May 11, 2023, right at School No. 63, where she came to meet her child's teacher. In October of the same year, she was convicted on several criminal charges, including "inciting hatred."
According to media reports, during the 2020 protests, police detained her on administrative charges.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The reason for the criminal case was comments in the “Grodno 97” chat.
In October 2023, it became known that at IUOT-39 Yuri was under pressure from the administration of the institution, and he was given 4 penalties. On October 25, 2023, the Krupsky District Court made a decision to tighten the regime. Yuri from IUOT was sent to serve the remainder of his sentence in a colony.
Trial outcome 15.05.2023:
1.5 years of restriction of freedom with referral to an open institution.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On July 18, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict entered into force
Trial outcome 15.05.2023:
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 20.07.2023
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Valery is accused of treason against the state. In December 2022, the Belarus 1 TV channel released a film about KGB counterintelligence, which told about Belarusians and citizens of other countries who are accused of working for foreign intelligence services. Valery Romanovsky was called "the former head of the air reconnaissance service" in the film. The story of Belarus 1 says that during the service, a relative from Lithuania "brought" the suspect to agents of the state security department of the country. For them, Romanovsky photographed official documents, and once handed over to the special services data on the construction of the BelNPP, the film says.
Trial outcome 15.05.2023:
unknown years of imprisonment in the colony
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The man was accused of, in the court's opinion, leaving an offensive comment in a telegram addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Kubrakov and the Deputy Chief of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central District Administration of Minsk, Chief of the Criminal Police Vladimir Kubrakov. Alexander fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions. Before the trial, the man was under personal surety. After the verdict was announced, he was taken into custody in the courtroom.
Alexander Borovik has a minor child in his care. He works as a carpenter-machine operator.
In January 2024, it became known that Pavel was again accused, but this time under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 15.05.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 29.03.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 25.06.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
According to human rights activists , the son of the politician Anatoly Lebedko is charged with financing extremist activities. Artyom was detained at the end of March and then twice sentenced to 15 days of arrest, after which he was charged and transferred to SIZO-1.
According to the prosecution, in 2020, “for motives of ideological hostility,” using the account of one of the banks, he made several money transfers over the phone to three funds that were recognized as “extremist formations.” It is reported that the funds were transferred through the payment system of the popular social network Facebook. Presumably, we are talking about, among other things, the BY_help funds and the Belarusian Sports Solidarity Fund.
At the trial, the political prisoner did not admit his guilt and stated that he did not understand the essence of the charges and did not understand why he was in the dock.
Trial outcome 24.08.2023:
3.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Dmytro Gudik was convicted under Article 358-1 of the Criminal Code (intelligence activity). He is a citizen of Ukraine. Mikhail Stolyarchuk, his uncle, was also tried in this criminal case. According to the prosecution, they had been collecting data on military equipment and facilities in Belarus on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine since 2018. Igor Dirko was also detained with them, but instead of being prosecuted, he was expelled from Belarus.
Trial outcome 24.11.2022
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The lawyer was detained at the end of January and is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 on Volodarsky. After the arrest, the lawyer’s profile was removed from the website of the Republican Bar Association. It later became known that on April 21, 2023, his license was revoked.
On September 8, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
Trial outcome 19.05.2023
6 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On June 30, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 26.04.2023:
unknown years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Victor Lameko, an entrepreneur from Zelva, was brutally detained and beaten during his arrest. Initially, a protocol was drawn up against him under the administrative article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (dissemination of extremist materials). Without even allowing Lameko to leave the courthouse, the security forces again detained him and again drew up a protocol under Art. 19.11 Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus. When the man was in the pre-trial detention center, a third protocol was drawn up against him.
As it became known , the businessman is in a pre-trial detention center, he has already been charged under a criminal article for libel against A.G. Lukashenka.
Viktor sued the tax authorities and defended entrepreneurs from the Grodno region in courts.
On October 24, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
20.05.2023
03.05 у него умер отец
29.04.2023
При задержании прямо в микроавтобусе был избит. Позже избили в 9-м управлении ГУБОПиК.
Сильно повредили ногу.
Trial outcome 31.08.2023:
3 years in prison in a penal colony.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The session of the Court of Appeal was held on 16.06.2023. The verdict has entered into force.
Trial outcome 18.04.2023:
unknown years of imprisonment in the colony
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On February 2, 2024, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 05.12.2023:
unknown
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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