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.
Trial outcome 03.08.2023:
8 years in a maximum security colony...
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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.
Trial outcome 09.08.2023
6 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 03.11.2023
unknown.
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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.
Trial outcome 12.04.2024
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 28.06.2024
unknown.
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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.
9 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 31.05.2024
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 100 basic values fine.
Final verdict by partial addition:
9 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 100 basic values fine.
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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.
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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.
Trial outcome 07.12.2023:
11 years of imprisonment in a colony.
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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.
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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.
Trial outcome 04.05.2022
7 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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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.
Trial outcome 07.09.2022
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 5000 rubles of compensation, 100 basic values fine.
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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.
Trial outcome 11.12.2020
4 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility, 500 rubles of compensation.
Prosecutor's protest 25.03.2021
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 2000 rubles of compensation.
Trial outcome date unknown
6 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
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Zhanna was born in 1969 in Murmansk, Russia. She studied at the printing school in Ufa, but spent most of her life in Mozyr, Belarus. She was registered as a sole proprietor, was passionate about fitness and healthy eating, and traveled extensively.
In 2023, Sereda received an invitation from a Polish company and has lived and worked in Poznan since then.
Plans for a quiet life abroad were interrupted upon her return to Belarus. Zhanna last posted anything on social media in December 2025—she was detained shortly afterward.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Yana is originally from Pinsk. She graduated from high school in 2021. A year later, she went to Poland, where she first enrolled in a preparatory year in Krakow, and then at university. It's unclear whether Galimskaya completed her studies.
It's also unknown whether she returned to Belarus or went there to visit her parents. But she was arrested in the second half of last year and placed in pretrial detention.
Recently, Galimskaya has been trying to earn money as a tutor: since January 2026, she has been teaching Polish and Belarusian.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Yana graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in 2014, and from 2010 to 2012 she interned at the John Matejko Academy of Arts in Krakow.
Since 2017, she has worked at Verv, a fitness software company, and since 2019, she has held the position of lead product designer at the Lithuanian company TapLab.
The girl's social media pages state that she lives in Vilnius. It appears she was detained after one of her returns to Belarus.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Pavel is a physicist. In 2007, he graduated with a master's degree in laser physics from the Belarusian State University and holds a PhD in physics and mathematics. Two years ago, he found work in Poland and received a work permit, but he traveled home occasionally. During one of these trips, he was detained .
For nearly 16 years (from 2007 to 2023), he worked at the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, rising from junior research fellow to researcher. His scientific portfolio includes 33 publications and participation in the development of laser systems and optoelectronics.
He was released in early May 2026, having served his entire sentence.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
The arrest took place several days after the man returned from Warsaw.
On March 19, 2026, he 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 04.02.2026
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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