In Gomla, the head of the Gomel regional search association "Memory of the Fatherland" Ihar Sviridzenka was sentenced to 10 hundred years' imprisonment for "distribution of extremist products", human rights activists "Vyasny" report.

The organization, managed by Ihar Sviridzenko, is engaged in the preservation of the historical memory of Belarus - the search for the remains of victims of the Second World War and Stalin's repressions.

During the existence of the organization, its members identified several hundred dead people.