Potential persecutions

Andrey Stepurko is 33 years old. The man graduated from the Radio Engineering College, and then «‎MITSO» International University. He worked as a software engineer in a polyclinic, a computer assembler, a computer operator, a sales consultant. It is known that he is fond of practical shooting, engaged in laser tag and other types of shooting games.

As far as we know, the man was detained in the case of the explosion of the plane in Machulishchi. He allegedly found an apartment for the alleged perpetrator of the sabotage in Machulishchi Nikolai Shvets.

Stepurko's parents and his brother were also detained.

41 year old Anastasia has worked a lot of places, but the last known place of work is the director of the printing house of LLC «‎Electronic Agent».

The film on the ONT TV channel showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 in the house of Nastya and her husband Oleg Sychev in the garden association «Berezovaya Roshcha»‎ in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).

Nastya and her husband were detained by law enforcement officers on March 3 in the same house.

According to human rights activists, both of them are now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.

The detained couple has two juvenile children who are now with their grandmother.

47 year old Oleg was born in Krasnoyarsk, but in 2000 he moved to Belarus and has already received citizenship. Recently, he worked as a printer in the publishing house «Zmitser Kolas».

In the film on the ONT TV channel, they showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 at Oleg's house in the «Berezovaya Roshcha» garden association in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).

Sychev with his wife Nastya Pilko was detained by law enforcement officers on March 3 in the same house.

According to human rights activists, both of them are now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.

The detained couple has two juvenile children who are now with their grandmother.

Dmitry Mostovoy is 45 years old. He is a resident of Sinitsa, studied at the Polytechnic College in Minsk, a professional programmer.

He was detained during the protests in October 2020, and he was sentenced to several days of arrest.

Dmitry was detained in early March 2023. In the film «Gaspar did not get in touch» on the ONT TV channel, released on April 05, 2023. It was said in the film that Dmitry offered the telegram chat «Belarusian Gayun» to merge information about the airfield in Machulishchi: he set up an online broadcast from a computer, where all the actions taking place at the airfield for two weeks without a break were shown.

Now the man is in jail on charges of treason to the state and facilitation extremist activities.

A citizen of the Russian Federation.

In the film «Gaspar did not get in touch» on the ONT TV channel, released on April 05, 2023, they say that Andrei photographed objects in Grodno — the military enlistment office of Grodno and the Grodno region, military unit 41780, the Auls oil depot, the Devyatovka oil depot, the Consulate General of the Russian Federation. Also in the film they said that a year ago Kulikov escaped from Russia from conscription into the army.

The Russian oppositionist Daniil Krinari (Kovalevsky) helped him get to Grodno.

In December, Krinari was detained in Grodno and extradited to Russia.

Of the closest relatives, Alexei only has a grandmother.

Andrey and his wife are Ukrainians, both from Chernihiv. The couple moved to Belarus after getting married: the spouse wanted it, her parents lived there.

The family has been living in Vitebsk for 10 years. Andrey worked in the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee as an electrician. He was also detained at work.

In the film «Gaspar did not get in touch», which was released on the ONT TV channel on April 05, 2023, Andrei was accused of agent activity in favor of Ukraine.

As reported in the film, Shmay regularly sent information via the Signal messenger to Ukraine to his younger brother Ruslan, who serves in the Chernihiv operational directorate «North» and is the deputy commander for operational affairs.

Deputy commander of the 310th Artillery Group for ideological work of the 120th Separate Guards Mechanized Brigade of the Guards, Lieutenant Colonel.

According to preliminary information, he is accused of high treason.

The circumstances of the case are unknown.

According to human rights activists, Maxim was detained on February 7, 2023. The reason for the detention is unknown.

Maxim Ageev was a defender in court of several political prisoners, as well as a lawyer for one of the defendants in the «Belgazprombank case».

Reenactor on the Stalin Line. Shilko's page on the Odnoklassniki social network, recognized as extremist, contains several photographs of the convict participating in productions in the form of a Wehrmacht soldier. Shilko did not publish any information glorifying Nazism.

Until 2020, he worked in the Investigative Committee in various positions. Retired Lieutenant Colonel of Justice. Convicted for participating in marches on August 16 and 23, 2020. According to human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of the term.

originally from Buda-Koshelev in Belarus, he was engaged in activism and was a volunteer of the "Country for Life". Ivan Sautin was detained while trying to cross the border with Poland. Detained May 27, 2022 again. At the end of June he was extradited to Belarus. Earlier, he was charged under four articles of the Criminal Code, including terrorism, insulting a government official. As a result, three of the four articles were withdrawn following the results of an audit by the Russian side, which is also confirmed by pro-government channels.

UPD. According to the materials of the case, in 2018 he embezzled more than 68 thousand rubles. At the same time, the investigation notes that in 2020 he participated in protests, "made videos, harassed services, local authorities."

Due to the presence of these facts of persecution for the manifestation of civic position and activity, we believe that Ivan's sentence should at least be reviewed.