Igor was convicted in the summer of 2023 for donating to initiatives deemed "extremist" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 17.07.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Vice-rector for educational and scientific-methodological work of the State Institute of Culture and Culture "GAZ-INSTITUTE". Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor.
Alexander was taken into custody on charges of donating to initiatives that are recognized as extremist.
On September 15, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force
Trial outcome 20.06.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Kirill was detained early in the morning in February 2023 as he was leaving his apartment building on his way to work. Following a search, he was placed under administrative arrest for 15 days, but was not released after the search. He was charged with financing the activities of an extremist group.
That summer, he was convicted of donating money to the "By_help," "BYSOL," and "Honest People" initiatives through the "Facebook Fundraising" payment system from June 2020 to May 2021. At the hearing, he was presented with six donations of $10 each.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Alexey was arrested in March 2023 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "Active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and was placed in pretrial detention pending trial. In October of that year, he was convicted on three criminal charges, including "financing the activities of an extremist group," and sentenced to imprisonment.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 27.10.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
In the summer of 2025, she suffered from pneumonia and was hospitalized in the medical unit.
On March 19, 2026, she was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Trial outcome 30.06.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
In June 2023, it became known that an additional charge had been brought under Article 361-2 for one donation of 10 USD to a fund that was later recognized as extremist by the court.
The court issued a sentence of 3 years' imprisonment, but the appellate court replaced the imprisonment with a restriction of freedom with direction.
He was released at the end of May 2025, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 16.08.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 24.10.2023
3 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Natalia Zhlobo works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literature of the Faculty of English at Moscow State Linguistic University.
The arrest took place at the end of March, and since then Natalya has been in jail. The exact reason for the detention, as well as the number of the criminal article, is still unknown, but we are talking about a political case .
On October 6, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 31.07.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Alexey is 37 years old. He is from Molodechno. As reported on his Facebook page, in 2020 the man moved to the position of financial director of the Minsk Watch Plant, which produces watches under the Luch brand.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that the man posted information of an extremist nature on his page, as well as information that he transferred money to an organization recognized as extremist.
EPAM employee. It is known that Andrei was searched, the reason for the detention was supposedly donations to aid funds.
Andrei was kept for 2 months in a pre-trial detention center, after which the case was closed , since there was no evidence of his guilt, and he was released.
Ksenia, an employee of the IT company Game Stream, was detained on March 11, 2023, in Minsk. According to security officials, in 2020–2021, she made nine payments to solidarity funds via Facebook donations, totaling $425. Pro-government Telegram channels published a video of the search, during which a white-red-white flag, $20,000, and office equipment were found and confiscated from Ksenia Alkenova.
In July of that year, she was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 12.07.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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