All persecuted

The start date of special production is 18.04.2025.

Margarita is a Belarusian opera singer. In 2020, she took part in Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's election campaign and dealt with issues of culture and national heritage in Pavel Latushko's team and in the People's Anti-Crisis Directorate.

During a tour in Lithuania in the fall of 2020, Margarita began to be persecuted in Belarus, after which she was forced to remain abroad.

In March 2024, a criminal case was opened against Margarita as part of a special proceeding, and already in June of the same year, she was convicted in absentia for participating in an “extremist group” - “Rudobelskaya show-off”, sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment and a fine of 800 basic units.

In 2020, a criminal case was opened against Yan, the editor of the NEXTA Telegram channels, under a number of articles, including "organizing mass riots" and "inciting hatred." As part of the special proceedings, in May 2023, he was convicted in absentia and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony. According to the Belarusian state news agency BelTA, the defendants in the "case" are accused of committing at least 1,586 crimes, and a claim for more than 30 million rubles has been filed.

Earlier, the KGB included Yan on the “terrorist list”, and the NEXTA channel in Belarus was recognized as a “terrorist organization”.

Igor is a former officer of the Almaz special forces unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a captain at the time of his dismissal. He is credited with participating in the brutal dispersal of protesters at the intersection of Pushkin and Pritytskogo streets (Pushkinskaya metro station) in Minsk in 2020. At that time, a group of armed security forces in full gear left the Almaz base and headed towards Pushkinskaya, simultaneously shooting point-blank at civilians.

According to available information, Igor decided to leave the service after receiving an order to detain Maria Kolesnikova, who was kidnapped on the street in Minsk in September 2020.

Since the beginning of the war, which began in February 2022, Igor defended Ukraine, fought in the "Sakhashchik detachment" as part of the 79th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the battles, he was seriously wounded, after which he underwent rehabilitation and fully recovered.

In June 2023, he was convicted in absentia on politically motivated terrorism charges and a number of criminal charges. He was given a long prison term, the first five years of which were to be in prison. He was also stripped of his military rank.

According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, an "organized criminal group" allegedly preparing extremist crimes operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries. It included radical military personnel, security officials, athletes and businessmen who sought to seize power illegally. This case is related to the attempted arson of the house of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and the "organization of mass riots."

Until 2008, Denis served in the 8th Directorate of the Security Department, ensuring the security of diplomatic missions, consulates of foreign states and facilities of primary national importance in the Republic of Belarus.

In June 2023, he was convicted in absentia on politically motivated terrorism charges and a number of criminal charges. He was given a long prison term, the first five years of which were to be in prison. He was also stripped of his military rank.

According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, an "organized criminal group" allegedly preparing extremist crimes operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries. It included radical military personnel, security officials, athletes and businessmen who sought to seize power illegally. This case is related to the attempted arson of the house of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and the "organization of mass riots."

Vadim is a businessman, founder and deputy commander of the Pagonya regiment, and has been outside of Belarus since 2020. In June 2023, he was convicted in absentia on charges of politically motivated terrorism and numerous criminal offenses. He was sentenced to a long prison term and a fine, and stripped of all his military ranks.

According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, an "organized criminal group operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries with the goal of committing extremist crimes. It included radical individuals, including former and current military personnel, law enforcement officers, athletes and businessmen, who sought to seize power illegally." The case involves charges of attempting to set fire to the home of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and "organizing mass riots."

For the second time, as part of a special proceeding, Vadim was convicted in December of the same year under articles on “inciting hatred and discord,” “slander and insult of Lukashenko,” and “insulting a government official.”

In December 2024, it became known that a new special case had been opened against Vadim on four more criminal charges, including “creation of an extremist group” and “undergoing training to participate in extremist activity.”

According to the prosecutor , the Brest resident was accused of writing several insulting comments about government officials, including police officers, in the Telegram messenger in 2021.

Political activist, co-chair of the unregistered party Belarusian Christian Democracy and member of the Coordinating Council for organizing the process of overcoming the political crisis.

Member of the initiative group and head of the headquarters of the election campaign of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. Currently, he heads the charitable foundation «Country for Life».

Activist, chairman of the strike committee of the Minsk Tractor Plant, member of the presidium of the Coordinating Council for organizing the process of overcoming the political crisis.

Nikolai graduated from the Physics Department of BSU, after university he went to work for InterVelopers, which soon began collaborating with Wargaming. Since 2002, Nikolai began managing business development in the company and still holds this position. The businessman, according to CSE, owns about 17% of Wargaming shares. Yezhednevnik traditionally included him in the list of the most influential Belarusian businessmen - in the 2021 rating, he took 18th place.

Propaganda films claim he made “dozens of cryptocurrency transfers” worth “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to various causes deemed extremist.

Now Katselapov is free and abroad, so a special case has been opened against him.

Belarusian statesman, diplomat, initiator and creator of the Hi-Tech Park. Member of the 2020 presidential campaign.

The verdict was delivered in absentia. The defendant himself was not present at the trial, as he has been abroad since the fall of 2020. This is the first verdict in Belarus in a criminal case, which was investigated within the framework of "special proceedings". Ex-chairman of BSSF Alexandra Herasimenia and executive director of the fund Alexander Opeikin were found guilty of calling for sanctions and other actions aimed at harming the national security of Belarus.

The verdict was delivered in absentia. The defendant herself was not present at the trial, as she has been abroad since the fall of 2020. This is the first verdict in Belarus in a criminal case, which was investigated within the framework of "special proceedings". Ex-chairman of BSSF Alexandra Herasimenia and executive director of the fund Alexander Opeikin were found guilty of calling for sanctions and other actions aimed at harming the national security of Belarus.