Political prisoners

Convicted for donating 9 euros to the Kalinovsky Regiment.

On May 17, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

In 2006, he graduated with a master's degree from the Physics Department of Belarusian State University. Before his arrest, he held the position of lead software engineer (a management position) at EPAM. In May 2020, Pavel, along with a team of other IT employees, helped Belarusian teachers set up a distance learning system. Pavel is married and has two children. At the time of his arrest and trial, his wife was pregnant; he had not seen their second child.

Judging by social media, Pavel was involved in social dancing (hustle).

The conviction was based on PayPal donations made between 2020 and 2022 to funds and initiatives such as BYSOL, BY_help, BYPOL, and others. Most of the donations ranged from 10 to 50 euros, with about ten transfers in total. Pavel acknowledged the transfers and explained them as a desire to help people affected by the protests or those who lost their jobs.

As follows from the press release of the Brestobl Court, Evdokimenko was charged with the fact that from August to December 2020 he transferred “personal and other personal data of employees of internal affairs bodies for public dissemination on the Internet.” At the same time, I took the data from databases to which I had access at work. Presumably he worked at the Brest BTI.

On October 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

The guy is 22 years old, he is originally from Svisloch, a town in the Grodno region. He served in the army, and then moved to live in Grodno. He was involved in sports, for example, he represented his hometown in junior sports all-around.

The guy is currently detained and placed in a pretrial detention center . He is accused of preparing an act of terrorism.

According to the KGB legend, voiced in a pro-government film on ONT, he was supposed to commit sabotage in Grodno.

In the interrogation footage, he says that he was allegedly given the task of blowing up an oil depot using a drone and explosives.

On June 28, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

Nikolai, a systems engineer and former employee of RUE Beltelecom, was detained in August 2021 as part of a criminal case initiated under the article "act of terrorism". In June 2023, he was convicted under several criminal articles, sentencing him to a long prison term.

According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, "an organized criminal group operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries with the goal of committing extremist crimes. The group included radical individuals, including former and current military personnel, law enforcement officers, athletes and businessmen, who sought to seize power illegally." The case involves charges of attempted arson of the home of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and "organizing mass riots."

The man was accused of creating and administering the telegram channel «‎23.34»‎, which contained information about Belarusian judges.

Viktor was also accused of «‎aiding and abetting the deliberate actions of administrators and participants of a number of other destructive Telegram channels, which were aimed at inciting social hostility on the basis of a different social affiliation and which entailed serious consequences»‎.

Activist from Myadel district.

In December 2021, it became known that Taspaev was sentenced to two years of house arrest for "slander" (Article 188 of the Criminal Code). According to the court schedule, over the past six months, he has been tried twice on administrative charges - for violating animal welfare rules in May 2023 and for violating the procedure for holding mass events in May 2024.

Stanislav's trial, but this time on a criminal case, will begin on October 4, 2024, in the Myadel District Court. As reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office, Stanislav is the administrator of the YouTube channel "Initiative of the Resort Naroch" (recognized as extremist on June 12, 2024), in which "from March 2017 to July 2024, in 36 messages on video recordings, he disseminated deliberately false information about the political, economic and social situation of the Republic of Belarus, the legal status of its citizens, the activities of state bodies, discrediting the country before an unlimited number of people."

The man is fond of photography, and this was one of his sources of income. He also earns money by providing computer services. Stanislav was also a district coordinator of the IT-Country project, which was financed by the IT company Belhard. In addition to his work, Stanislav dealt with environmental issues in Myadel and its environs, and protected nature.

The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.

Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which the Television News Agency showed in 2021.

According to the ONT film, Vladimir Trifonov is a guide across the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, through which he had to illegally transfer Alexey Khralovich.

He began serving his sentence.

At the beginning of January 2023, in one of the pro-government telegram channels, a video appeared with the detention of Sergei by GUBOP and AMON officers, who allegedly administered courtyard chats, including “Grodno Center 97%”; participated in protest rallies and called on others to participate in them, as well as to use violence against police officers, literally, “burn paddy wagons.”

For the first time, Alexander Petushkov was detained in January 2022, after which the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs published a video with him. The reason for the detention was his comments about the events in Kazakhstan.

Alexander was detained again in April 2022. The reason for the initiation of a criminal case were reposts and comments with calls for a strike, the shutdown of enterprises, and the renewal of protests. He also offered to remove the shoulder straps to law enforcement officers and generals. In relation to Lukashenko, he used the words «usurper» and «illegitimate».

Previously, he worked in the Leeds security service, he quit a long time ago. Recently he worked as a driver on a heavy truck («trucker»).

On December 19, 2022, the trial began in closed regime.

Detained for the administration of chats «Vitebsk -97%» and «Orsha -97%».

Lighting designer at the Belarusian theater «Lyalka».