Political prisoners

A resident of Baranovichi. Engaged in entrepreneurship, then worked as a trucker.

In the 2020 elections, he tried to register as a presidential candidate, but the central election commission refused him.

Before the 2020 elections, the YouTube channel «Tochka nevozvrata» («Point of No Return») began to actively conduct (currently it has 43.3 thousand subscribers). Including statements from this channel formed the basis of the criminal case against Chudinovich. In July 2021, the man was placed in custody. On May 1, 2022, he was transferred to a covered prison.

Detained under articles 130, 368 and 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

Press secretary of «A1».

He was detained on December 10, 2021 and sentenced to administrative arrest. But he was not released. It is known that law enforcement officers beat him.

After the arrest, a video appeared in the channels supporting the current state authorities, in which the Interior Ministry officers forced Nikolai to say that he had passed information related to his professional activities to third parties. But the company then said that Nikolai did not have access to customer data.

The trial was held behind closed doors, but it became known that Nikolai Bredelev was found not guilty under Part 2 of Article 424 of the Criminal Code (Misuse of power or official authority) and acquitted for lack of proof of participation in the commission of a crime.

He was accused of providing funds to deliberately support the activities of an extremist formation (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code) - blogger Anton Motolko. Motolko refuted this accusation.

He is a fitness trainer from Soligorsk.

According to the case file, in January 2021 Gavrilov purchased and provided aerosol cans with paint to two acquaintances — Tatiana and Oleg Birulya. After that, Tatiana and Oleg, from January to February 2021, applied inscriptions and drawings to various infrastructure facilities in Soligorsk, carrying out their damage.

In August 2021, Gavrilov, through agreements, including for material remuneration, involved another acquaintance, Sergei Pasyuk, in engaging in extremist activities.

Then, from August to December 2021, the defendants distributed leaflets and other printed materials on the territory of Soligorsk. The examination of the contents of the «Honest Newspaper», with copies of which the coach was detained, testified that Gavrilov was allegedly involved in inciting racial, national, religious or other social enmity or discord committed by a group of persons.

He was charged under three articles: 368, 130 and 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

Convicted on January 18, 2022.

He was on the case together with Artem Fedosenko, the director of a private printing house from Minsk.

40 year old Pavel Yukhnevich was detained on March 19, 2021 by traffic police officers on the highway near Minsk. Employees found protest leaflets, newspapers in the car, etc.

According to the investigative committee, thousands of copies of protest newspapers, stickers with unregistered symbols and leaflets were seized from Yukhnevich.

The creator of the store Symbal.by , cultural manager.

He was detained on November 15, 2021 after being called to the police. Then Pavel was convicted three times on administrative cases (for 15, 13 and 7 days of arrest), and after that he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case.

According to the case materials, Kuzmitsky, having perverted values and a wrong understanding of the word «patriotism»‎, purposefully joined a terrorist organization and headed certain resources of the network «...97».

He administered more than 30 chats, which he filled with extremist materials under strict control and guidance from abroad. The man formed the composition of extremist communities, distributed roles and organized the participation of their members in protest actions.

In addition, he took measures to unite and increase the number of communities: morally supported them in private conversations, organized joint leisure activities, distribution of propaganda products, drawing drawings and inscriptions of an extremist nature on the facades of buildings.

A citizen of Russia, has lived in Belarus since the age of 6, an individual entrepreneur.

He is accused of setting fire to the car of the head of the Department of Corrections and puncturing tires in 39 trolleybuses in Gomel.

He was detained on November 5, 2021. He was in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee in Minsk. On December 13, 2021, he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-3.

I was an observer at the last presidential election. Engaged in civic activism. In 2019, he opposed the development. Does not drink, does not smoke, has a heightened sense of justice, as his relatives say. Two juvenile children remained at large.

On January 3, 2022, Andrei was tried again, already under four criminal articles, including for promoting extremist activities and inciting other social hostility. The verdict was announced behind closed doors, so the details of the case and the position of the political prisoner are unknown. As a result, he was added to 15 years of imprisonment for another year and eight months in a penal colony of strict regime. In addition, the political prisoner received a penalty of 32 000 BYN.

He was detained according to the information of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption on December 16, 2021 at his home at night.

Convicted of participating in protests on August 9, 2020. He was identified by video.

He is an independent journalist, works for «Radio Svaboda».

He was detained on November 25, sentenced to 10 days of arrest, but on December 5 he was not released and again received 10 days of arrest. But on December 15, Andrei was not released, having received another 10 days of arrest. Then a criminal case was opened against him.

Detained on August 22, 2021 near the dacha of the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus Sukalo V.O. for attempted arson.

It may have been provoked by employees of the State Security Committee.

A former law enforcement officer, then worked at EPAM before being detained.

He was detained in October 2021 under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Inciting social discord) for transmitting the data of security forces to the telegram channels «Karateli Belarusi» and «Chernaya kniga Belarusi» («Punishers of Belarus» and «Black Book of Belarus»).

A resident of Vitebsk.

The girl was charged under Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Inciting social hostility) for transmitting the data of security forces, teachers, judges to the telegram channel «Chernaya kniga Belarusi» («Black Book of Belarus»).

He is an investigative journalist, editor of the Belarusian portal «Ezhednevnik»‎ (ej.by ).

Was detained on December 8, 2021. Earlier, Sergei had already been detained in the period from March 25 to April 4, 2020.

Some human rights organizations regarded the repression as evidence of a political motive in the persecution of a journalist aimed at forcing him to stop or change the nature of his activities to disseminate information about corruption.

The reason for the prosecution of the journalist, according to Satsuk's colleagues, were high-profile investigations, primarily concerning large-scale corruption in the medical field. Based on the facts obtained, he told about unprecedented «kickbacks»‎ for the supply of expensive equipment; about the purchase of an unregistered vaccine, which was actually tested on Belarusian children; about falsification of data on the spread of COVID-19 in Belarus. And all this with the approval of the control department — the Ministry of Health.