Political prisoners

In December 2024, Roman Yemelyanov was already subjected to repression in an administrative politically motivated case. He was accused of violating the procedure for organizing and holding mass events under Part 1 of Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. At the same time, there have been no mass events in Chechersk in recent years, except for those organized by the authorities. This persecution was probably for some posts on social networks, which the punitive structures of the ruling regime interpret as pickets, since people express some opinions through them.

After this, a criminal case was opened against Roman.

First, Ivan was arrested for 15 days , then placed in a pretrial detention facility on a criminal case.

Irina has been working for JSC Peleng, the largest design and engineering enterprise in the optical-electronic industry, for over 15 years. Most recently, she held the position of Category 1 Design Engineer in the SCS Research and Design Department in the Production Systems Support Sector.

Most likely, the woman was detained during a special operation on Peleng, which began last summer.

Businessman , head of the auditing company Ernst&Young.

Pavel was detained and placed in a pretrial detention center on charges of one of the political articles. It is known that the criminal case was opened for the events of 2020. In 2020, at the height of the beating of citizens by the police, a letter signed by Lashchenko was issued to the heads of law enforcement and government agencies , in which he expressed doubt in the figures voiced by Yermoshina, and also called on everyone to come to their senses and return to the rule of law.

When in June 2024 the KGB of Belarus declared the Media IQ project an extremist group, it named Pitkevich among its participants. Around the same time, Polina's accounts were last online.

Polina Pitkevich was born in 1994. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University (2016). She was fond of theater and for some time played as an actress in the Laboratory of Social Theater in Minsk. As a journalist, she wrote on cultural topics. Polina is also known for her love of animals - on her social media pages, you can find many ads about helping homeless tailed ones. According to friends, Polina had more than one rescued cat living in her house.

The girl posted her last photo on social media on November 18, 2024, from Turkey. After that, she went to Belarus — that’s probably when she was detained. She hasn’t appeared online on Telegram for a long time, and her social media has been inactive since November. The girl is probably now in a pretrial detention center.

After graduating from MSLU, Veronica worked for three years as a flight attendant at Qatar Airways. Veronica's other passion is modeling and acting.

Owner of the Grodno ethnic store "Tsudounya".

According to Hrodna.life information from sources not associated with Nesterovich's family, he was detained on February 6. A criminal case was opened against the entrepreneur under Article 342 of the Criminal Code for events related to the 2020 protests.

Andrei Nesterovich founded his ethno store in 2015. After the 2020 elections, the store faced fines and the loss of its premises. Andrei remained in Belarus and supported his business, as he considered it important for the preservation and development of Belarusian culture. He has two small children, one of whom is not yet a year old.

62-year-old employee of the computer science and communications laboratory of the Mozyr Oil Refinery.

Igor Shukanov was demonstratively and harshly detained on August 1, 2024. The GUBOP came for him from Minsk. He was detained right at his workplace. Then, in a factory UAZ-Patriot, he was taken outside the plant's checkpoint. Not far from the bus stop, in the parking lot near the main checkpoint of the plant, where there were people at the time, the GUBOPikovites staged a demonstrative beating of Shukanov - they pulled him out of the UAZ, threw him face down on the asphalt, pressed his knee on his head, and handcuffed him.

It is noteworthy that on the morning of that day Igor was tried under an administrative article for disseminating "extremism." He was given a fine and released - only to be arrested a few hours later.

Mozyr activist and blogger Polina Zyl. As Nasha Niva learned, the girl was charged with participating in protests and being involved in an "extremist group." She is awaiting trial in a pretrial detention center.

Her boyfriend Maksim Shukanov was arrested along with her. There was no information about his release, most likely he is also in the pretrial detention center.

Polina is 31 years old. She is originally from Yelsk, studied in Mozyr. In 2020, the girl supported the protests, even got arrested for a day. Then Polina went into hiding, but remained in the country. Both Zyl and Shukanov were wanted, but did not want to leave Belarus.

Viktor was born in the Russian Federation, but has Belarusian citizenship. He lived in Ratomka.

The Linkedin page indicates that since 2018, Viktor has worked as a senior communications engineer at customs. This is probably what the criminal case against the man for "abuse of power or official authority" is connected to.

Danila is a student at the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. On October 18, 2024, in the Novobelitsky District Court of Gomel, he and his mother Elena Chibisova were convicted under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (rape distribution of extremist materials). The outcome of that court hearing is unknown.

He was detained in early September 2024 and received two terms under administrative article 19.1. He spent about a month in the Okrestina temporary detention facility, after which a criminal case was opened for insulting Lukashenko A. and he was transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1.

Sergei Terekhovich is 42 years old. He was born and has lived his entire life in Grodno. Until the end of 2016, he served as a senior technician in border unit 2141, which serviced the Bruzgi checkpoint on the Belarusian-Polish border.

The service ended with an incomprehensible incident at the border - Sergei independently opened the barrier and allowed "citizen Terekhovych" to leave the checkpoint.

After 2016, Terekhovych started his own business. Sergey became the director of the company "Seviri Service", which provided funeral services. He also has the status of an individual entrepreneur, the scope of whose activities is designated "Postal and courier activities".