"Vitebsk Spring" continues to acquaint readers with the conditions of stay in temporary detention facilities. Journalist Artem Sizintsev covered spring protests and trials of their participants not only in his native Vorša, but also in Mahiloŭ and Viciebsk. Law enforcement officials evaluated the activity of the reporter – he was detained on March 25 for Freedom Day in Viciebsk. The court appointed Artem to 10 days of arrest.

According to the resolution of the employee of the Investigative Committee KS. Kazimirskaya, a criminal case against Dr. Igor Postnov was instituted on the basis of the elements of the offense provided for in Part 1 of Article 400 of the Criminal Code (a knowingly false denunciation of a crime).

On July 11, the Hłybokaje court ended the examination of the criminal case on illegal migration, in which UK citizen Alan Smith and two Belarusian citizens were accused. The judge re-qualified the accusation against the Englishman from part 2 of Article 371¹ of the Criminal Code to a softer part 1 and sentenced him to two years in prison under conditions of a general regime.

In continuation of the topic of temporary detention isolators of the Vitebsk region, we quote the story of the co-chairman of the newly created BCD party, Pavel Sevyarynets. Pavel, as a former political prisoner, is well acquainted with the penitentiary system of Belarus. This year he was punished with 15 days of arrest after the "March of the non-parasites" in Vorša, which was held on March 12.

A resident of Viciebsk, Oksana Isakova, says her son Viktor Seleznev and his cousin Alexander Kudryavtsev, who are serving their sentence in Škłoŭ colony No. 17, are in danger. The woman worries that their life is under threat. According to her, convicts demand a meeting with the prosecutor, but they are not given such a possibility.