The Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the Brest Region. Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6, Regime Department. Head of Department, Major. Previously Deputy Head for Regime and Operational Work of the Brest Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7. Moves between Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6 and Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7, probably due to incoming complaints.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Shego Aleksandr Fomich is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. Shego Aleksandr personally beat detainees, created unbearable conditions of detention and came up with new rules of conduct in the pre-trial detention facility to put pressure on detainees.
The Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the Brest Region. Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6, Regime Department. Head of Department, Major. Previously Deputy Head for Regime and Operational Work of the Brest Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7. Moves between Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 6 and Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 7, probably due to incoming complaints.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Shego Aleksandr Fomich is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. Shego Aleksandr personally beat detainees, created unbearable conditions of detention and came up with new rules of conduct in the pre-trial detention facility to put pressure on detainees.
A special forces detachment burst into Alexey’s home, they knocked the man to the floor and one security officer sat with his knees on Samoiluk’s body (with one knee on Samoiluk’s neck).
The pro-government channel claims that Samoiluk “threw stones at the police during the riots.” In that publication on the same channel they also posted photographs: in one picture there are two people in hoods and masks, one holding a Ukrainian flag, the second a sheet of paper with the text “Brest residents with Ukraine.”
Trial outcome 05.08.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 08.10.2024
unknown.
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On February 21, 2024, in the Pinsk District Court, Judge Andrey Bychilo considered the case under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution of information products included in the republican list of extremist materials, as well as the production, publication, storage or transportation for the purpose of distributing such information products).
Apparently, a criminal case was opened after this.
Trial outcome 08.02.2024
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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According to the indictment, Yevgeny Kladov posted an image on his profile wall on the social network Odnoklassniki that contradicts universal morality and accepted social norms of behavior, thereby publicly and intentionally humiliating Lukashenko's honor and dignity in connection with the exercise of his powers, expressed in an indecent manner. At the court hearing, Kladov essentially pleaded not guilty.
It is known that Evgeniy was not released after serving his first sentence, but was charged with new offenses, declared a "terrorist," and convicted again.
Trial outcome 24.11.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 09.02.2024
unknown.
Trial outcome 01.10.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.12.2024
unknown.
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According to the prosecution , on May 17, 2022, Leonid Raichonok transferred $400 for body armor to Belarusian volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine. He made a second donation in the amount of $150 to the benefit of the “Prague Support Team” (an association of Belarusians in Prague who collect donations and use them to buy uniforms, sometimes for weapons accessories, for Belarusian volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine). The Brest resident’s actions were qualified as “financing citizens of the Republic of Belarus to participate on the territory of a foreign state in an armed formation of one of the warring parties, in armed conflicts, military operations.”
On December 12, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
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During the detention, “special equipment and physical force” were used against Yevgeny, according to the June 2 court decision (the man was accused of disobeying the police). He was taken out of his office in handcuffs and with a bag over his head, we know from our sources.
At the moment, Evgeny Pelekhaty is awaiting trial. He is accused of writing several tough telegram comments about Lukashenka and the security forces.
Trial outcome 05.08.2024
unknown.
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Alexandra was detained in February 2023 upon her return to Belarus and sentenced the next day under an administrative article for "dissemination of extremist materials" to 10 days. However, after serving her arrest, she was never released, as a criminal case was opened against her for two interviews with an information resource recognized as an "extremist group."
She was accused of assisting “extremist groups,” administering Telegram channels, inciting hatred, insulting the authorities, disseminating personal data, and slandering Lukashenko, and was convicted under eight criminal articles.
In March 2024, the court heard the appeal and reduced her sentence by one year, without the right to further appeal.
In May 2024, it became known that she was convicted again for “insulting a government official and a judge.”
In the spring of 2025, information appeared that another criminal case had been opened against Alexandra, and she was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.
9 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 31.05.2024
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 100 basic values fine.
Final verdict by partial addition:
9 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 100 basic values fine.
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In the period from August 2020 to July 26, 2022, Alexander administered the telegram chat «Zhyve Luninets!», for which he was detained on July 27, 2022.
On November 24, 2022, by the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the telegram chat «Zhyve Luninets!» was recognized as an extremist formation on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
The trial of Alexander took place on February 9, 2023, where he was accused under 5 articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus: Part 1 of Article 361-1, Part 1 of Article 342, part 2 of Article 367, Article 369, part 3 of Article 361.
It is known about Alexander Sumar that in 2006 he worked in the Luninetsky district police Department as a forensic expert. In recent years, he lived in Moscow (Russia).
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Pro-government channels posted “repentant videos”, where Pavel says that he worked in the Department of Security until 2018, was detained for transferring personal data of Department employees to the Black Book of Belarus. The data was taken from the telephone directory book.
At home he left a wife and small children (1 year and 3 years).
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According to the materials of the prosecution, Maxim Kurovsky intentionally posted messages in one of the Telegram chats against President Lukashenko, obscene in form and offensive in content.
The examination found that the messages contained a negative assessment of the head of state, humiliated his honor and dignity. Moreover, he used the Belarusian language at the same time. Former investigator of the Pruzhansky district department of the Investigative Committee. He retired from the service in 2020.
12/06/2024 released after expiration of sentence.
Trial outcome 17.10.2022
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 09.12.2022
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome date unknown
3 years of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions.
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Detained for hanging a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine on the facade of a high-rise building in Minsk.
After his detention, the channel in the Zello mobile application, through which he communicated during the rally, was recognized as an extremist formation.
21.03.2023
The trial began on March 20, 2023, Judge Kuchuk
Trial outcome 06.04.2023:
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of strict regime.
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Military analyst Egor Lebedk was awarded 15 days of administrative arrest under Article 24.3 of the Administrative Code. After a day, Yegor did not come out and was detained on a criminal case of promoting extremist activities for comments for Euroradio.
In October 2022, channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus published the news that another criminal case was opened against Egor on the basis of repetition, and noted that each interview by an extremist forms a separate crime.
Trial outcome 23.12.2022
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 21.03.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Regime change trial 11.12.2024
prison regime until the end of the term.
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Investigators report that in August 2020, at some point, an SUV with foreign registration plates and tinted windows attracted the attention of police officers. When the policemen went to the car, the accused started reversing and deliberately ran over one of them, after which he fled the scene.
Traffic police officers pursued the accused, but the driver abandoned his car near the village of Antonovo, and he disappeared.
The video from the registrar of the traffic police official car shows a large gathering of police officers in full gear. The moment of hitting one of them is not visible.
The man was put on the wanted list and upon his return from Poland on May 5, 2022 in Baranovichi, he was detained and placed in custody.
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Real estate agent, blogger, author of the blog "Belarus in the Window". His TikTok account has 431 followers. In the videos, he humorously comments on Belarusian news.
During the arrest, he was beaten. Alexander had already been beaten before — he came under a wave of torture on the «Okrestina» during the August protests. According to the medical report published on his page, he was severely beaten during detention at the exit of the house on August 12, 2020 and on the «Okrestina», there were 47 bruises on his body.
The man submitted an application to the investigative committee with a demand to conduct a check on the fact of his beating. The initiation of a criminal case, of course, was refused.
During the consideration of the criminal case, it was established that from August to October 2020, Alexander repeatedly took part in blocking the movement of vehicles in Minsk, posted videos insulting Lukashenka on social networks.
Trial outcome 18.05.2023:
5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony under a reinforced regime.
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A military pensioner, worked in Baranovichi at an aircraft repair plant.
According to investigators, on September 26, 2020, he made Molotov cocktails and moved them to a parking lot near one of the military units, where he used them.
Trial outcome 20.06.2022
12 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Trial outcome 23.03.2023
unknown.
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Alexander, the manager of the York store, was arrested in November 2021 in a criminal case related to the "Busly Lyatsyats" initiative. Some of the charges concerned damaging the car of a Borisov district judge. As a result, he was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.
In September 2023, it became known that Alexander was transferred to a hospital for convicts in the village of Kolyadichi near Minsk for a planned operation. At the end of October of the same year, he was transferred back to the penal colony.
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