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Nikolai is the leader of the unregistered Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Hramada), a former presidential candidate, a retired lieutenant colonel, and a PhD in engineering. He was one of the founders of the Belarusian Military Association. He has been imprisoned multiple times for political reasons.
In the 1990s, he organized protests, including the Minsk Spring and the 1999 march.
In 2004, he led street protests against referendum fraud, after which he was sentenced in 2005 to three years of restricted freedom. Due to an amnesty announced in honor of the 60th anniversary of Victory Day, his sentence was reduced by one year. In 2010, he participated in the presidential campaign and protests in Minsk, after which he was arrested and sentenced in 2011 to six years in a maximum-security penal colony. In January 2012 and May 2015, his sentence was increased, resulting in his imprisonment. He was released in August 2015 as part of a pardon.
After his release, he continued his political activity and participation in street protests. In 2016, the Belarusian National Congress was founded on his initiative. In 2020, he spoke out in support of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya , the wife of another unregistered candidate, social blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky . Nikolai was detained again on May 31, 2020, on his way to her election picket. He initially received 15 days of administrative arrest but was never released. Subsequently, in December 2021, he was convicted of criminal charges of "organizing mass riots."
According to human rights activists, the defendants in the case are required to pay compensation in the amount of 29 million rubles.
On September 11, 2025, it was reported that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime had been forcibly transferred to Lithuania. Among those released was Mikalai Statkevich. However, Mikalai refused to leave Belarus, and had to kick down the bus doors to do so. After waiting for several hours in the neutral zone, he returned to Belarus. It was only two months later that he was re-arrested. His exact whereabouts are unknown.
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One of the leaders of the Honest People initiative, Ilya, actively participated in Viktor Babariko's election campaign, heading the signature verification department. He was detained on August 4, 2020, on charges of economic crimes, but was later convicted of "posting media aimed at discrediting the government and dividing society by political views."
| 11.10.2021 | Birthday - September 23 (from the letter information) |
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Eduard, who graduated from BGEU with a degree in Economics and Business Management and ran the crowdfunding platforms Ulej and MolaMola, as well as his father Viktor Babariko's initiative group, was detained on June 18, 2020, on his way to the Central Election Commission to submit signatures. He spent more than three years in prison without trial and was convicted of "organizing mass riots" and "tax evasion."
In July 2024, he was re-sentenced to two years in prison for “disobeying the prison administration.”
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Viktor is a Belarusian businessman and public figure. He founded the international foundation "Chance", initiated the projects "Teart" and "Art-Belarus", thanks to which works of art were returned to the country. Under his leadership, Belgazprombank became one of the largest banks in Belarus. In 2020, he put forward his candidacy in the presidential elections, which attracted widespread support, as a result of which in June 2020 he was arrested and later convicted on economic charges.
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Pavel is a Belarusian opposition politician and co-founder of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party. He was detained in June 2020 and subsequently received several administrative arrests for participating in election pickets. Pavel was later convicted of organizing mass riots.
In June 2023, he was transferred to prison regime.
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A member of the expanded Coordination Council was detained on September 29, 2020, in connection with a case of mass riots, beaten by riot police officers and accused of participating in Telegram channels of a "radical orientation".
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Lawyer and member of the presidium of the Coordination Council for the Resolution of the Political Crisis.
Maxim was detained on September 9, 2020 and charged with conspiracy and extremist activities, including public calls to seize power and actions threatening national security, using the media and the Internet.
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Maria, a member of the presidium of the Coordination Council and head of Viktor Babariko's headquarters, was kidnapped on September 7, 2020, and taken to the Belarusian-Ukrainian border for deportation. She tore up her passport and refused to leave the country. On September 9, she was detained and taken into custody.
In September 2021, she was convicted under the articles: “conspiracy to seize power by unconstitutional means,” “calls for action against national security,” and “creation of an extremist group.”
In November 2022, Maria underwent surgery due to a perforated ulcer and peritonitis. Since March 2023, she was in the PKT. Due to health problems, she did not work, she was even accompanied to the formations.
Maria was kept incommunicado for a long time. In the summer of 2024, it became known that the administration had isolated her from other prisoners, with guards constantly with her. On November 12, 2024, she met her father for the first time in 18 months.
The meeting took place in a prison hospital, and it is not known for sure whether she was being treated or was brought there from the PKT. Before this, there had been no communication from Maria, and her condition became known only from the words of other prisoners.
Following this meeting, she was again cut off from communication with the outside world and continues to be kept incommunicado.
In February 2025, her sister reported that Maria had been returned to the unit and expressed hope that communication would be restored.
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Former presidential candidate, detained in a criminal case.
Andrey Dmitriev is the co — founder and co-chairman of the «Govori pravdu» association.
In 2021, the association «Govori pravdu» was searched, after which the current account of the organization were blocked, and the office was sealed. On August 12, 2021, Dmitriev was detained for a short time, but then released.
The man was detained again on January 11, 2023 and put in the pre-trial detention center «SIZO -1». The Investigative Committee reported that Dmitriev participated in the post-election protests of 2020, therefore he became a suspect under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On April 20, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
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Belarusian statesman, diplomat, initiator and creator of the Hi-Tech Park. Member of the 2020 presidential campaign.
17 years in prison in absentia.
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Candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus in the 2020 elections. After the announcement of the official results, protests began. Tikhanovskaya announced the usurpation of power by the incumbent president and called for new and fair elections. On August 11, 2020, Tikhanovskaya left Belarus. Her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, a blogger and politician, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Pavel Latushko, Olga Kovalkova, Maria Moroz, Sergei Dylevsky were tried in the same criminal case. In total, they were charged with 12 articles.
On January 11, Svyatlana Tikhanovskaya applied to the Minsk City Court demanding that she be granted the right to familiarize herself with the materials of the case in her trial in absentia. She also notified the court that she was going to exercise her right to a lawyer. She also wrote to the Minsk City and Republican Bar Associations that she wanted to contact the lawyer assigned to her and work out a position.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya stressed that she considers the procedure of trial in absentia a violation of basic human rights and freedoms.
The case was initiated for distributing and mailing leaflets calling for counting the votes of voters honestly.
He was one of the coordinators of the headquarters of Viktor Babariko in the presidential elections and a member of the Coordinating Council. The first time was detained in 2020. On August 28, 2020, he was detained and placed in custody, and on November 12 he was released under the guarantee of Voskresensky.
The second time Vitaly was detained in July 2021. Convicted on August 9, 2021. Entrepreneur, businessman, event manager, organized large corporate events.
In the Leninsky District Court of Minsk on August 6, the chairman of the United Civil Party (UCP), a member of the main staff of the Coordination Council, Nikolai Kozlov, was sentenced to three months of arrest. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 407 of the Criminal Code for disclosing data in a criminal case against the Coordination Council, but the specific episodes of the charges are unknown, since the trial was held behind closed doors. Released on March 26, 2022 at the end of his sentence. At the end of July 2022, he was detained again. According to the indictment, on August 23, 2020, Kozlov, Kovaleva and Alekseeva “publicly shouted slogans, applauded loudly, were on the roadway, thereby blocking and impeding the movement of transport in Minsk, including the city passenger transport Minsktrans.”
The trial of the UCP members began on November 1, 2022 in the Pervomaisky district court of Minsk. On November 3, Judge Anastasia Kulik sentenced the political prisoner to two and a half years in prison.
On January 31, 2023, the Minsk City Court considered the appeal of the UCP leaders. The sentence remained unchanged, and the complaint was not satisfied.
In mid-February, the political prisoner was transferred to Mogilev penal colony No. 15. Immediately after quarantine, Nikolai was placed in a punishment cell until March 26.
At the beginning of May 2023, the political prisoner’s mother died. Nikolai was not released from the colony for the funeral.
At the beginning of July 2023, Nikolai’s associates said that the political prisoner was hospitalized with bronchitis.
In mid-December 2023, it became known that the politician was placed in the FCT for 2 months in November.
07/22/2024 released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
The first sentence is 3 months of arrest .
The second sentence is 2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
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Popular Belarusian blogger and creator of the YouTube channel "Country for Life" Sergei expressed a desire to run for president. However, before the start of the election campaign, he was arrested for organizing an unauthorized event. His wife, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, submitted documents to the Central Election Commission by proxy, but Sergei was not registered as a candidate due to the lack of his signature. Subsequently, Svetlana herself was registered as a candidate. After his release, Sergei became her trusted person and participated in collecting signatures.
On May 29, 2020, he was detained again during a picket in Grodno and later convicted under several criminal articles, including "organizing mass riots" and "inciting hatred." According to human rights activists, the defendants in the "case" are required to pay compensation in the amount of 29 million rubles.
In August 2022, the court transferred Sergei to prison regime. In February 2023, he was convicted again for "malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional institution" - an article applied to prisoners who refuse to cooperate with the administration, including for fictitious violations. As a result, another year and a half of imprisonment was added to his 18-year sentence.
On June 21, 2025, Sergey was released following a visit to Minsk by U.S. President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and was immediately taken to Lithuania.