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A criminal case has been opened against Victoria and she is wanted for participating in protests in Pinsk in 2020 in connection with disagreement with the election results.
In June 2024, her mother was detained and sentenced to six months in prison for participating in protests in Pinsk under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Victoria's underage brother was placed in an orphanage during his mother's imprisonment.
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Margarita is a Belarusian opera singer. In 2020, she took part in Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's election campaign and dealt with issues of culture and national heritage in Pavel Latushko's team and in the People's Anti-Crisis Directorate.
During a tour in Lithuania in the fall of 2020, Margarita began to be persecuted in Belarus, after which she was forced to remain abroad.
In March 2024, a criminal case was opened against Margarita as part of a special proceeding, and already in June of the same year, she was convicted in absentia for participating in an “extremist group” - “Rudobelskaya show-off”, sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment and a fine of 800 basic units.
According to pro-government telegram channels, Ilya not only participated in the 2020 protests, but also "made extremist" tattoos, including those allegedly "inciting ethnic hatred against the backdrop of the Ukrainian conflict."
After serving an administrative arrest, on May 1, he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case for participating in protests
unknown years of restriction of freedom without direction.
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He was arrested in Minsk in October 2022, in his office, for allegedly posting comments in the chatbot of the "Belarus of the Brain" channel. He is reportedly in pretrial detention and facing two criminal charges.
Ivantsov is 38 years old. He studied at the Faculty of Biology at BSU, worked as a junior research fellow at the Academy of Sciences, and served as a medical representative for several pharmaceutical companies. Since 2013, he has headed the company "De Visu," which conducts marketing research in the pharmaceutical industry. Five years ago, Ivantsov entered graduate school at BGPU and worked at the university. Ivantsov is also a practicing psychologist and a proponent and popularizer of the Enneagram.
On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Convicted for participating in protests in 2020.
On July 14, 2023, the appeal was considered. Chairman of the Judicial Board Maxim Lapko.
On August 7, 2024, in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Minsk, Judge Olga Lavrinovich will make a decision “On replacing the restriction of freedom without sending to an open correctional facility.”
unknown years of restriction of freedom without direction
3 years of restriction of freedom without direction
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Andrey is a Ukrainian citizen originally from Chernihiv. He moved to Belarus after his marriage at his wife's request, as her parents lived there. Andrey is a former military serviceman. He worked as an electrician at the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, where he was arrested in January 2023 as part of a criminal case.
In the pro-government film "Gaspar Didn't Respond," aired on the ONT television channel on April 5, 2023, Andrei was accused of being an agent for Ukraine. The film alleges that he regularly transmitted information via the Signal messenger to his younger brother, Ruslan, who serves in the Chernihiv Operational Directorate "North" and is the deputy commander for operational matters.
In March 2024, Andrei was found guilty of “intelligence activity” and sentenced to imprisonment.
In January 2025, a court hearing was held on the issue of transferring him to a different type of correctional facility and changing the conditions of the regime.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Detained for a photo from the 2020 protests. She is under investigation and released on bail.