Vadim Bogdanov worked as a taxi driver in Russia for a time. However, according to job postings , he later switched to IT and began working as a software tester. In 2024, he moved to Poland. The last reports of him in Poland date back to the second half of 2025.
He was detained at the end of last year upon returning from abroad and placed in pre-trial detention.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown.
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He was detained in February 2026 when he arrived in Belarus from Poland.
Trial outcome 01.06.2026
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
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2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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Sergeyev graduated from the Kazan Tank School during the Soviet era. In 2020, he participated in protests near the Atlant plant, after which he and his wife left for Poland. Andrey's wife has presumably also been arrested.
He played in an amateur hockey league.
He allegedly returned to Belarus due to serious health issues. According to acquaintances, Andrei developed lung problems and underwent surgery in Belarus.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Sutyrko is a former KGB officer who left the agency about 10 years ago. He was detained shortly after returning from Poland. Igor, in addition to Belarusian, also holds Polish citizenship.
After leaving the KGB around 2014, Igor took up programming. He lived in Poland for several years, but in April he returned to Belarus, where he was detained. He is charged under Article 356 of the Criminal Code (treason).
Alexander Rudchik was born in Skovorodino, a town in the Amur region of Russia, near the Chinese border. He graduated from the Military Finance and Economics Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense in 1985 and subsequently served as a lieutenant in Tynda, Amur region.
According to BelPol, the man lived in Belarus for many years and worked as an auditor as a sole proprietor since 2003. He closed his business at the end of 2019.
Alexander did not hide his anti-Putin and anti-Lukashenko views on social media.
Since 2022, the man has lived outside of Belarus. As early as the spring of 2025, he was posting photos from Poland. But later, for unknown reasons, Rudchik ended up in Belarus.
Trial outcome date unknown
10 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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Alexander was convicted in a special proceeding in the Molodechno District Court under Article 364 of the Criminal Code (violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer) and sentenced to three years in a maximum-security penal colony. Judge Vadim Petrusevich heard the case from October 15 to November 16, 2024.
Alexander, an activist from Molodechno, was a political émigré. Human rights activists learned that he later, for unknown reasons, ended up in Belarus, where he was convicted again for collaborating with the organization "Dapamoga" under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 361-4 (assistance to extremist activity) of the Criminal Code and sentenced to five years and six months in a maximum-security prison colony, as well as a fine of 42,000 rubles.
As reported in a state newspaper in December 2025, "the man assisted the extremist group Dapamoga in organizing the illegal departure from the Republic of Belarus of individuals charged with criminal and administrative liability for committing crimes and offenses of an extremist nature."
Trial outcome 06.08.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions (trial in absentia).
Trial outcome date unknown
5 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 930 basic values fine.
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Alexander spent his last years in exile. In 2023, a criminal case was opened against him for participating in Freedom Day abroad. Alexander's apartment in Belarus was seized, as revealed in a pro-government media report broadcast by propagandist Igor Tur.
In April 2026, Alexander returned to Belarus and was detained at the airport.
Before the events of 2020, Dmitry worked at the Lida locomotive depot and, in recent years, was a long-distance truck driver in the European Union.
He was presumably detained in the fall of 2025 after one of his regular flights. His last reports concern crossing the border during this period.
In 2026, Dmitry was found guilty of "slandering Lukashenko," "inciting hatred," and "assisting extremist activity" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
Trial outcome date unknown
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On October 8, Gleb Panasyuk left Poland, where he had lived and worked for the past few years, for his native Svetlogorsk to visit his parents. On October 9, he called his friends in Poland from Brest to say he had crossed the border and was about to catch a train to Svetlogorsk. But after that, contact with the young man disappeared .
As it turns out, Gleb served his sentence in a temporary detention facility in Gomel on an administrative charge, after which he was transferred to Pretrial Detention Center No. 3 and charged with a criminal offense. Human rights activists have information that his imprisonment is politically motivated.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
In 2020-2021, Ales was brought to administrative responsibility twice for participating in protests and a flag in the courtyard of a private house. After 2021, Ales traveled to Lithuania and Poland several times.
He was detained at the end of March on the border with Lithuania, where he was returning from work. First, they found "extremism" in his phone and sentenced him to administrative arrest. Then Ales ended up in a pretrial detention center on charges of a politically motivated criminal article.
A few days later, Ales' brother, Vadim Zdorovennov, was detained in Minsk. He was initially charged with "insulting Lukashenko," but other charges may also be brought against him.
Trial outcome 15.12.2025
10 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal 13.02.2026
the sentence was upheld.
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He returned home from abroad and was taken into custody in late September-early October 2024. He came home to renew his passport. He was charged with "deliberate actions aimed at inciting national, religious, and other social hatred and discord," "dissemination of materials containing public calls for the seizure of state power, ..., and other actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus," "insulting a government official," and "insulting Lukashenko."
Arkady was ultimately sentenced to five years in a maximum-security penal colony and a fine of 500 basic units. He was also ordered to pay 5,000 rubles in "moral damages" to Andrey Ivanovich Shvets.
Trial outcome 13.10.2025
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Andrey Berestovoy has over 20 years of experience in design, and the last 15 years he has been working in IT. In the second half of 2024, he was detained. It is only known that the reason for the detention could have been Berestovoy's comments on Telegram. He used an old account linked to his own Belarusian number, and an old nickname that he used everywhere.
It is known that he periodically traveled to Belarus.
Trial outcome 20.05.2025
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After finishing school, he entered the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at BSU. Since 2005, he has been working in IT.
At the end of 2021, Solozhentsev moved to Warsaw. There he opened an individual entrepreneurship and got a job at RunMyLease, where he holds the position of Tech lead.
Sergey's main hobby is ballroom dancing. In 2024, he and his partner won two gold and one silver at dance competitions in Poland in the 40+ category.
Then Sergei returned to Belarus. It is not known when exactly this happened, but the last time he contacted was at the end of October 2024. The trial of the IT specialist took place in the Grodno Regional Court. Judging by the fact that after the trial Solozhentsev never appeared online, he was sentenced to a term in a penal colony.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
In 2021, Demenchenko graduated from the Faculty of Information Technology at Polotsk State University, after which he worked as an electronics engineer at the Novopolotsk Central District Hospital, from where he resigned in the fall of 2022.
Over the following years, there were notes on social networks that the guy lived in Grodno and Warsaw. The last time Demenchenko was online was at the end of 2023. After that, he was most likely arrested.
Demenchenko was accused of "causing harm to the national security of Belarus." He could have been sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison, but the sentence would have been in a penal colony in any case. The nature of the charge and the exact term are unknown.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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