Political prisoners

Pavel was detained for comments on the Internet.

The prosecution requested 1.5 years of freedom restriction with referral to an open-type correctional facility for insulting one victim of a security officer, and 2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime for commenting on another security officer.

According to the materials of the prosecution, Maxim Kurovsky intentionally posted messages in one of the Telegram chats against President Lukashenko, obscene in form and offensive in content.

The examination found that the messages contained a negative assessment of the head of state, humiliated his honor and dignity. Moreover, he used the Belarusian language at the same time. Former investigator of the Pruzhansky district department of the Investigative Committee. He retired from the service in 2020.

12/06/2024 released after expiration of sentence.

Top manager of the operator life:). He was arrested for distributing the data of law enforcement officers to telegram channels.

The Belarusian state TV channel reported that Alexander transferred about 800 US dollars to BYPOL in May 2021. It is worth noting that BYPOL was recognized as an extremist organization in November 2021, meaning that at the time of the transfer, the initiative was not extremist.

According to witnesses, Alexander was indeed offered compensation for the damage through a fund associated with the president. He agreed to such compensation in exchange for his release, but things did not go according to plan. Alexander was refused, and his money (about 30 bitcoins) was confiscated. The BYPOL organization was recognized as a "terrorist formation", and a new criminal case was opened against Alexander under the article "Financing terrorist activity".

On March 15, 2024, in the Minsk City Court, Judge Elena Shilkо issued a new sentence – 9 years of imprisonment. The waves of pardons that swept across the country did not affect the political prisoner.

Detained for hanging a white-red-white flag and the flag of Ukraine on the facade of a high-rise building in Minsk.

After his detention, the channel in the Zello mobile application, through which he communicated during the rally, was recognized as an extremist formation.

Individual entrepreneur. The essence of the accusation is still unknown.

On January 17, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

Detained for participating in protests in 2020.

On October 20, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

He was found guilty that in November 2020 and March 2021, he sent information about his former leader to the telegram bots of channels recognized by extremist groups in the Republic of Belarus. Subsequently, it was placed resources through which illegal activities were carried out as part of extremist formations. Also, according to the prosecution, the posting of information received from Borzenko entailed other grave consequences.

He was also found guilty of purchasing and storing firearms ammunition.

KGB Lieutenant Colonel, Deputy Commander of Unit "A" of the KGB of the Republic of Belarus. In August 2020, he headed the Association of Veterans of Group "A", on behalf of which he signed an appeal condemning violence and repression. In the fall of 2020, he was detained by KGB officers and placed in custody. The criminal case is classified "secret".

Leonid's first trial took place in the fall of 2022; he was charged under Article 369 and sentenced to restriction of freedom without referral.

The second trial was announced in August 2024. Leonid is accused of "financing the activities of an extremist group" (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code) and "recruiting, training or preparing for participation in a war, as well as providing material support for such activities" (Part 2 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code). The man was probably found to have donated to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The sentence is most likely related to imprisonment.

Leonid has a higher education , his last place of work was the private enterprise "Gomelstalstandart ".

Ivan first held the position of investigator in Malorita, then transferred as an investigator to the Kobrin District Department of Internal Affairs. He had the rank of lieutenant.

According to information from the GUBOPiK video, he resigned from the law enforcement agencies and began mining cryptocurrencies. According to security officials, Ivan transmitted information about his colleagues to various telegram channels.

On November 28, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.

Sergei was detained on September 30, 2021, initially for a comment he made following the deaths of State Security Committee (KGB) officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk. He was summoned to the military registration and enlistment office, where security forces were already waiting. His home was later searched in his absence.

In early September 2022, it became known that the State Security Committee had added Sergei to the "list of persons involved in terrorist activity." In November of that year, he was sentenced to imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony.