Political prisoners

A defendant of the criminal case about riots, initiated after the events in Pinsk on the night after the elections on August 9, 2020.

Resident of Brest city, a defendant of the criminal case initiated in accordance with Article 293 Part 2 of the Criminal Code ('Participation in riots') after the protest meeting in the city that took place in August'2020.

Resident of Brest city, a defendant of the criminal case initiated in accordance with Article 293 Part 2 of the Criminal Code ('Participation in riots') after the protest meeting in the city that took place in August'2020.

Grodno journalist, member of the Union of Poles of Belarus, publicist. The journalist and activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus was accused of inciting hatred and calling for sanctions. Andrey was detained on March 25, 2021. The indictment against the journalist states that Poczobut in the media called the USSR attack on Poland in 1939 an aggression. In addition, he was accused of statements in defense of the Polish minority in Belarus, articles in Gazeta Wyborcza about Belarusian protests in 2020, and a text in Magazyn Polski written in 2006 and dedicated to Anatoly Rodionik, one of the commanders of the Polish anti-communist underground in the Grodno region.

Pochobut spent more than 1.5 years in a pre-trial detention center. In October he was added to the “terrorist list.” It is known that Poczobut was offered to write a petition for pardon, but he refused.

Today he has been in the punishment cell almost continuously for six months. In IK-1 (Novopolotsk) he is regularly put under pressure, deprived of visits and transfers. Also, there are no calls from Andrey.

Arrested in relation to the 'Pinsk case' after protest meetings on August 9, 2020.

Was detained on August 11, 2020. Convicted on March 19, 2021.

Aliaksey Drab protected a protester from the riot police. Was detained on October 20, 2020. He was threatened, made to make an on-camera confession, his leg was broken in five areas. After interrogation was placed in pre-trial detention center with a cast on his leg.

According to prosecution, he made and scattered 'hedgehogs' infront of a convoy of cars of the pro-government rally on November 14, 2020. Was detained on January, 2021.

Ruslan likes to cultivate potato and to keep pigs on the farm. In his letters he says that 'his arms grow from the right place'. He can handle well any work with wood. He chops log cabins. Names himself 'Buratino'. Likes extreme and height very much. He is fond of arboristics. Feels drive and indescribable feelings while sitting on the roof of the house, watching what's going on downstairs, hugging the tops of trees. In prison his painting talent woke up.

At home his little son is waiting for Ruslan.

Denis lives in Grodno, married. He has been working as a volunteer editor of the Belarusian version of the website of the International Investigative Community InformNapalm since 2014, as well as a freelance correspondent for the newspaper “Novy Chas” since 2018. He is known for his investigations into the influence of the “Russian world” on Belarus and Syria, about the scandalous development in Kurapaty, as well as about the transition of former Ukrainian Berkut officers to the security forces of Belarus.

On March 12, 2021, journalist Denis Ivashin was detained by KGB officers for interfering with police activities. The security forces conducted a search in the journalist's apartment. Also that evening, a search was carried out at Denis’s mother’s house, and on March 15 they came to search his 95-year-old grandmother.

In mid-March 2022, human rights activists also learned that the KGB was accusing Ivashin of collaborating with Ukrainian intelligence. On August 15, the trial of the journalist began behind closed doors in the Grodno Regional Court.

The wife of a political prisoner said that they had repeatedly tried to compromise Denis by transferring him to a cell with people who had a low social status behind bars. However, relatives note, Denis quickly adapts to external conditions and studies internal rules and traditions. In April 2023, it became known that the relatives of the political prisoner were allegedly threatened to stop any communication with him if they did not stop disseminating information about Denis.

At the end of June 2023, the journalist was transferred to prison regime in Zhodino. The wife of the political prisoner, Olga, noted that neither the relatives nor the lawyer knew about the regime change trial. He is now in Zhodino prison No. 8, and for the first six months he will be kept under strict regime.

In April 2024, it became known from the political prisoner’s wife, Olga, that Denis had been deprived of his transfers . She also noted that now, in order to send vitamins to a prison or colony, it is necessary to obtain special permission from the doctor of the medical unit of the institution. Previously, this rule only applied to essential medications.

Detained together with Kiryl Kazey for the 'revenge' to the driver who had hit a person with white-red-white flag.

Convicted of setting fire to a police station in Bobruisk. In court, the Bobruisk resident also said that he has three children.

It became known that Emin has problems with his legs and moves with a stick.

Charged under Art. 293 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

Mikita Hancharou was detained at his workplace in the city of Brest by the riot policemen on August 11, 2020. After the arrest, Mikita was taken to a garage on the territory of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs, where they began to beat him.

On August 14, he was released, but on August 22 Mikita was again detained in the framework of a criminal case on mass riots for allegedly throwing stones during post-election protests in Brest.

Detained in the "case of the Brest City anarchists".

Detained in the "case of the Brest City anarchists".