Political prisoners

Sergei was convicted in court for insulting Lukashenko. On May 5, 2023, the case was heard by Judge Inna Sivets.

On June 4, 2024, the Orsha District and Orsha Court heard another criminal case against Sergei. He was again accused of insulting Lukashenko . The case was heard by Judge Yulia Vershinina .

The court found that Sergei Gnevko , "being a person previously convicted of publicly insulting Lukashenko and having been taken to the special detention facility of the Orsha District Department of Internal Affairs for committing an administrative offense under Article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism), while in a state of alcoholic intoxication, in the presence of police officers and an employee of the special detention facility, publicly made a statement containing an obscene form of speech addressed to Alexander Lukashenko in connection with the exercise of his powers."

The court found Sergei Gnevko guilty and, under Part 2 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code, he was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of four years. Based on the totality of sentences, the court partially added the unserved sentence under the previous sentence to the sentence imposed and finally sentenced him to imprisonment for a term of 4 years and 6 months.

On August 16, 2024, the appeal hearing took place and the verdict came into force.

Zhanna Dashkevich is 54 years old. She comes from the village of Svatki, Myadel district, Minsk region. Zhanna graduated from the Bobruisk Medical College in 1987, and at the age of 41 she entered the Belarusian State Pedagogical University to study as a psychologist. It is unknown when Zhanna Dashkevich was detained and why. But she stopped being online in October 2023, although she had previously been active on social networks.

The trial of the woman began on June 3, 2024 in the Minsk Regional Court. Zhanna is being tried under two articles - “recruitment, training or preparation for participation in war, as well as material support for such activities” and “creation of an extremist formation or participation in it.” She faces five to ten years in prison

He was detained in September 2023, allegedly for chatting with friends. A criminal case was opened.

He was detained in September 2023, allegedly for chatting with friends. A criminal case was opened.

The expected date of Andrey’s detention is September 20, 2023. On this day, a “repentance” video appeared, where a man says that he allegedly wrote negative comments about Lukashenko, officials, police officers, the Russian military, and also threatened people who support the current government.

44-year-old Andrei Burdenya was detained for comments in telegram chats, of which he left more than three hundred. Andrey studied at school No. 6, and then served in the army. It is known that now he is temporarily not working, but previously he worked for some time in the IT field, and even earlier he was engaged in the production of kitchen furniture and had his own individual entrepreneur

A resident of Bobruisk was detained on February 26, 2024, the day after returning from Poland.

First, he was convicted under administrative article 19.11 (distribution of extremist materials), and then a criminal case was opened under article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (creation of an extremist group). Maxim is allegedly considered involved in the creation of the extremist group “Bobruisk 375”.

According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”

At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.

It is reported that Yulia Sharanova took part in the protests when she was 16 years old, and Nikita Voityuk and Nikolai Nikityuk were 17 years old.

The man did not admit guilt. In addition to the prison term, the judge decided to confiscate Makarenko’s mobile phone, which was used “as a means of committing a crime,” to the state’s benefit.

It is known that the appeal took place on May 7, 2024: it upheld the verdict.

Lilia was first detained at the end of March 2023 and sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest. However, in April 2024, it became known that she had been detained as part of a criminal case. She was convicted under several articles for "insulting government officials" and "slander and insult against Lukashenko."

He was detained in February when he returned to Belarus from work. Previously, Alexander worked at a locomotive depot, but after 2020 he was either fired or quit himself - it seems that the dismissal was politically motivated. After that, Kamlenok worked as a truck driver in Western countries. And when he returned home from work, he was detained. He was accused of insulting a government official.

The Verkhnedvinsky District Court recognized Alexander’s page on Odnoklassniki as extremist.

On May 3, 2024, the State Security Committee of Belarus added a number of media resources of the FreeInfoBel project to the list of so-called “extremist formations”, and specific people who, in their opinion, are related to the project were also indicated - Olga Pashkevich and Iosif Dulebo. Moreover, the introduction of FreeInfoBel in fact became known only 5 days later - on May 8.

At the moment, it is unknown for what specific criminal case the man is in custody, but it can be assumed that it is related to “extremism.” We managed to find out that Dulebo was initially detained on an administrative matter. However, when the time came for release from the temporary detention center, Dulebo was not released - he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.

The man formerly headed the Vitebsk branch of the Belarusian Popular Front, but in the early 2000s he retired from party affairs.