All persecuted

He was detained in early May 2023, when he came to deliver a parcel to his brother Maksim Lopatin, who was detained in the Machulishchi case. Before that, the man lived in Lithuania. He was detained in the same case of sabotage in Machulishchi and charged under Article 289 of the Criminal Code. Later, the article was reclassified to 361-2 of the Criminal Code (financing of extremist activity).

At the trial, Andrei did not admit guilt.

On July 5, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

Kirill has served in the police since 2007. Detective officer, left the authorities in August 2020 and moved to IT. It is known that he was detained on February 19, 2023, right at the border: he lived in Poland for six months, and came to Brest to visit his wife and small child.

Little is known about the criminal case against Kirill: the trial was held behind closed doors. It is only known that the case was connected with the “Black Book of Belarus”.

An appeal court hearing is scheduled to take place on October 10, 2023.

He lived and worked in Poland for a year and a half and returned to Belarus, where he was detained at the end of November 2022. According to the security forces, it was in Poland that he registered in the Peramoga plan. He also allegedly wrote messages threatening the security forces.

Evgeniy is 40 years old, he graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs more than 15 years ago and managed to work as a district police officer, but quit of his own free will. Later, Alexey moved to IT. Subsequently, he lived in Europe, in Italy, for some time. He was detained while trying to enter Belarus - the man wanted to come to his mother's birthday and issue a power of attorney. A criminal case has reportedly been opened against Evgeniy Tikhonov for comments in a telegram about security forces and Lukashenko under three articles.

On June 28, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

Alexandra was detained in February 2023 upon her return to Belarus and sentenced the next day under an administrative article for "dissemination of extremist materials" to 10 days. However, after serving her arrest, she was never released, as a criminal case was opened against her for two interviews with an information resource recognized as an "extremist group."

She was accused of assisting “extremist groups,” administering Telegram channels, inciting hatred, insulting the authorities, disseminating personal data, and slandering Lukashenko, and was convicted under eight criminal articles.

In March 2024, the court heard the appeal and reduced her sentence by one year, without the right to further appeal.

In May 2024, it became known that she was convicted again for “insulting a government official and a judge.”

In the spring of 2025, information appeared that another criminal case had been opened against Alexandra, and she was transferred to a pre-trial detention center.

According to the investigation materials, Tatiana Kurilina, from August 20, 2020 to February 20, 2022, through Telegram channels, called people to violent actions against government officials and representatives of law enforcement agencies. She, without the consent of the victims, who are recognized, including employees of the prosecutor's office and judges, illegally collected, systematized and disseminated information about their private life, thereby harming their rights and legitimate interests. In that case, some messages in the chat rooms also concerned A.G. Lukashenko.

According to «‎Bypol», Tatiana Kurilina was deceived by Belarusian representatives of law enforcement agencies. This woman was seduced by a young man and asked to return to him in Belarus, promised to resolve all issues. She returned, but it turned out to be a special operation of the State security Committee and she was detained.

She worked as a lawyer for almost 18 years.

She defended political prisoners Ales Pushkin, Artem Boyarsky, Igor Banzer, Andrei Avsievich, Andrei Sokolovsky in court.

On February 23, 2022, she was expelled from the Grodno Regional Bar Association for systematic violations of the law. Yulia left Belarus, but returned to the country at the end of August 2022.

She was detained on the same day together with Pavel Mozheyko

Pavel and Yulia pleaded not guilty. Yurgilevich stated at the trial that she was being held in "bestial conditions" and was not allowed to get acquainted with the case.

According to investigators, he was detained for transmitting data to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. His wife is Ukrainian. He lived in Ukraine and returned to Belarus in 2021 because of his sick parents. He was detained by the KGB, they tortured him all night to make him confess that he had previously fought in Ukraine, they called his wife and promised to send him his head. After that, Yaroslav was released. A year later, he was detained again, now he is in a pre-trial detention center.

On May 4, 2023, he was sentenced under two articles (370 and 295 of the Criminal Code) to 2 years of imprisonment; after the prosecutor's protest, the sentence was doubled. He is in pretrial detention because two more criminal cases have been initiated. He is accused under the article on treason (part 1 of article 356 of the Criminal Code) for "transferring data to the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

In the summer of 2024, it became known that Yaroslav was again transferred to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1.

A resident of Vitebsk, detained for reposts on social networks. The court is closed, the young man has no relatives. It is known that he is about 30 years old, he left for work, he was detained in Belarus on his return. Three days after his arrest, his mother died. There are no more relatives left.

Investigators report that in August 2020, at some point, an SUV with foreign registration plates and tinted windows attracted the attention of police officers. When the policemen went to the car, the accused started reversing and deliberately ran over one of them, after which he fled the scene.

Traffic police officers pursued the accused, but the driver abandoned his car near the village of Antonovo, and he disappeared.

The video from the registrar of the traffic police official car shows a large gathering of police officers in full gear. The moment of hitting one of them is not visible.

The man was put on the wanted list and upon his return from Poland on May 5, 2022 in Baranovichi, he was detained and placed in custody.

Evgeniy was detained on January 18, 2022, when he arrived in Grodno from Germany.

Evgeny told security forces on camera that in 2020 he was a member of chat rooms deemed extremist, where he called for mass riots, the killing of police officers, and the burning of Tabakerok stores.

Evgeniy has family in Denmark.

Oleg, the owner of the YouTube channel "Third Region Belarus," was detained in January 2022 when he returned to Belarus for the New Year holidays.

Oleg was accused of de-anonymizing security officials and, while abroad, allegedly continuing to "post anti-state information on social media and promote resistance to government officials." On his channel, he published videos of Belarusian solidarity protests in Kyiv, where he had lived since 2020. He was also accused of making "cynical comments" about deceased KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk.

In September 2022, he was convicted under several articles of the Criminal Code, including "inciting racial, national, religious, or other social hatred or discord." The court sentenced him to imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony and ordered him to pay substantial compensation.

In July 2023, Oleg was convicted again of "malicious disobedience to the demands of the prison administration"—a charge often applied to political prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the prison administration. In September of that year, it was reported that he had been transferred to a prison regime.

It was revealed that Oleg faced another court hearing in the first half of summer 2025 under the same charge of "insubordination." The appeal hearing was scheduled for mid-July.

Ruslan was first detained on August 10, 2020, during a protest in Brest against falsifications in the presidential elections. After a brutal beating, he was hospitalized and then sentenced to 7 days of administrative arrest. A criminal case was later opened against him, but he left the country during the investigation.

Upon returning to Belarus, Ruslan attempted to cross the border into the European Union, but was detained. In November 2021, he was convicted of participating in “mass riots.”

In July 2024, he was convicted again, this time for “malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional institution.” This article is used to try prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, based on fictitious violations.

Nikita was arrested for spraying gas in the face of a riot police officer while he was trying to protect a person at a protest. He was beaten, had his hair cut with a knife, and had gas sprayed in his face. In December 2020, he was sentenced to four years of restricted freedom, but the prosecutor later succeeded in increasing the sentence to two and a half years in prison. Nikita did not appear in court, relaying through a friend that arbitrary detentions were planned in the courtroom, threatening him and others.

Was in forced exile.

At the end of March 2025, it became known that Nikita, who had been hiding from the verdict for four years at that time, was detained in Grodno. As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the man was stopped, he did not have documents with him, so he was asked to go to the station. Nikita resisted the police officers and, allegedly, broke the arm of one of them. It is reported that the man was wanted for allegedly "spraying a gas canister in the face of law enforcement officers" in August 2020. A criminal case was opened against him for this. He left the country, but then illegally returned to Belarus.

Since May 13, 2025, there has been no information about the political prisoner. Correspondence and parcels to him are prohibited. There is also no information about Nikita's case and the court date. In addition, it is reported that the investigator in the political prisoner's case is prohibited from informing Nikita's relatives and friends about the status and progress of the case.