Dmitry was arrested and convicted in the fall of 2024 under the articles "insulting a government official" and "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to imprisonment.
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.
Trial outcome 11.11.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 100 basic values fine.
Nakanishi Masatoshi is a Japanese citizen. On September 4, 2024, it was reported that hehad been detained in Belarus. He was detained back in July 2024, but the details of his persecution were only revealed now in a BT report. Nakanishi is being held in a KGB pretrial detention facility on charges of "intelligence activity" (Article 358-1 of the Criminal Code). The Japanese citizen faces up to seven years in prison in Belarus.
Immediately after the broadcast of the BT program, Tokyo lodged a protest with the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi stated that the program's content violated human rights.
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 Lithuania.
Trial outcome 10.03.2025
7 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Vladislav, HR of the IT company PandaDoc, was detained on September 2, 2020, at the company's office by employees of the Financial Investigations Department on charges of fraud.
Following the events of August 2020, PandaDoc founder Nikita Mikado launched the Protect Belarus initiative to support dismissed law enforcement officers who refused to follow illegal orders. The initiative received over 500 applications and attracted public attention.
Dmitry, the director of the IT company PandaDoc, was detained on September 2, 2020, at the company's office on charges of fraud by employees of the Financial Investigations Department.
Following the events of August 2020, PandaDoc founder Nikita Mikado launched the Protect Belarus initiative to support dismissed law enforcement officers who refused to follow illegal orders. The initiative received over 500 applications and attracted public attention.
He was released from custody on October 13, 2020: the measure of restraint was first changed to house arrest, and then to a written undertaking not to leave.
Artem was arrested in February 2024 and convicted under the article on "financing the activities of an extremist group." He was held in a pretrial detention center before the trial.
He has two higher educations, worked as a programmer, was involved in photography and owned a company renting photo and video equipment.
It is currently known that he is being prosecuted again in connection with a new criminal case under the article “organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them.”
Despite the fact that during the arrest, the "repentant video" said that he was detained for comments and registration in the chatbot "victory", the man is charged only under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. He is accused of participating in protests in August 2020. Information about Nikolai's arrest appeared in the security forces' Telegram channels on August 18. In the security forces' video, Nikolai said that he went to protests in the summer of 2020, wrote comments in chats, but "doesn't even remember which ones", and also that he registered in the chatbot "Plan Victory". The video showed a photo of Nikolai at a protest in Minsk, as well as screenshots of comments.
Trial outcome 25.10.2024
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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