Nikita, the younger brother of political prisoner Ihar Losik, was allegedly detained in April 2025 on charges of “assisting extremist activity” for allegedly forwarding several photographs of military equipment moving in 2022 to the Telegram channel “Belaruski Gayun”.
Nikita left Belarus before he began serving his sentence.
Writer and journalist Sasha Filipenko was forced to leave for Europe in 2020. Some of his publications have been translated into many languages and were on bestseller lists. The writer is engaged in promoting the Belarusian issue and has repeatedly appeared in Western media.
In November 2023, a search was conducted in the house of Sasha Filipenko's parents, his father, Alexander, was detained. Later, the Pervomaisky District Court of Minsk arrested him for 13 days.
In February 2024, Filipenko said that a criminal case had been opened against him, and that “two other cases were in the process of being opened.”
Alexander shared that the decision to open a criminal case against him states : "...through literature and other Internet resources, he insulted three professional groups... including patriotically minded citizens, which led to mass protests in Belarus...".
Oleg was summoned to the police department for protests back in 2021.
He "repented" at the police department, promised in writing never to participate in rallies again. Three days later a paper arrived that the administrative case had been closed because there was no evidence.
In November 2023, the man went to work in Poland. Since then, he has visited Belarus several times without problems. However, in April 2025, he was not allowed to leave the Republic of Belarus at the border; the migration service reported that he was a suspect in a criminal case for participating in the 2020 protests. After that, Oleg was evacuated from the Republic of Belarus by the Baysola service.
Deputy Chairman of the United Civil Party. The politician was detained on May 13, 2021. He was taken from work by police officers. Vladimir Shantsev was found guilty of allegedly participating in an unauthorized mass event near the Mogilev Regional Court on May 12, where the criminal case of Pavel Severinetsand other activists was being tried. After 15 days of administrative arrest, he was released from the temporary detention facility.
At the end of February 2025, a criminal case was opened in absentia against Vladimir for participating in the program "Palitbomond" (broadcasts from 09/20/2023 and 10/08/2024) on the YouTube channel "6tv Bielarus", which was recognized as an "extremist formation" by the decision of the KGB Chairman on 11/29/2023.
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