All persecuted

On 02/09/2024 an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

Presumably detained for giving interviews to foreign media.

It is known that Ekaterina was detained at the beginning of summer in one nightie, in which she was kept in a pre-trial detention center until the first transfer from her relatives.

At the beginning of April 2024, Belsat sources gave the editors a letter from Ekaterina. On a piece of toilet paper, she described her horrific detention and subsequent imprisonment:

“I fell from the second floor of the bed, my head on a wooden bench. They took a picture, but they haven’t reported the result for more than a month.”

“They put it on the flag, beat the whole office. They said it was for my interviews, the channel and for my fiery appeals.”

On July 16, 2024, the appeal was considered.

Programmer at SamSolutions.

On September 15, 2023, the appeal was considered.

Former accountant of the Minsk Electrotechnical Plant named after Vavilov . The trial began on May 19 and was held behind closed doors, so there is little information about the nature of the charges . It is known that Anna was fired from her job after the "People's Ultimatum" in 2020, then she sued the company for illegal dismissal.

Zhanna was detained on May 11, 2023, right at School No. 63, where she came to meet her child's teacher. In October of the same year, she was convicted on several criminal charges, including "inciting hatred."

According to media reports, during the 2020 protests, police detained her on administrative charges.

An employee of the IT company «Game Stream». The telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs published news with a video from the search in Ksenia's house.

According to law enforcement officials, in 2020-2021, through donations on Facebook, she made 9 payments to solidarity funds totaling 425 USD. Now a criminal case has been opened against her under the article «financing of extremist activities».

It is reported that during the search, a white-red-white flag, 20,000 USD and office equipment were found and seized from Alkenova.

The Rogachev District Court found that Yulia posted messages and videos on her publicly accessible page on the social network Instagram that “contained insults to the president.”

02.12.2023 released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.

In January, during the pre-election raids, Yulia Kostyuchenko was detained again and on January 22, she was tried under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for allegedly distributing “extremist materials.” On February 5, a second trial of Yulia Kostyuchenko took place under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Most likely, Yulia was held in custody all this time and her administrative arrest was simply extended, first for 15 days, and then extended again on February 5. In total, Yulia spent 90 days in the temporary detention facility, after which she was transferred to Pretrial Detention Center No. 3.

On April 3, 2025, the KGB of Belarus recognized the page on the social network X with the name "what's going on" as an "extremist formation". At the same time, the punishers named Yulia Viktorovna Kostyuchenko, born August 5, 1995, as involved in this "formation".

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.

Natalia was first convicted in January 2023 for an online comment under the article “insulting a government official” and sentenced to one and a half years of restricted freedom, known as “house arrest.”

In September of the same year, Natalia was again detained and convicted in a new criminal case, accused of “financing extremist activity” for supporting political prisoners through money transfers.

Elena has been convicted multiple times under political criminal charges, such as “insulting a government official” and “insulting Lukashenko” through comments on Telegram channels.

The first trial took place in December 2022 under the article "insulting a government official", the outcome of which is unknown. In March 2023, she was sentenced to restriction of freedom without being sent to an open-type correctional facility and a large fine for a comment with an emoji addressed to police captain Ruslan Kutsko.

In April 2024, a new criminal case was considered against Elena under the articles “insulting a government official” and “insulting Lukashenko”, the verdict for which is also unknown.

In October 2024, she was convicted of “inciting hatred or discord” for comments about Lukashenko, security forces, and participants in the war in Ukraine, and sentenced to imprisonment.

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.

Nasta Loiko is a well-known Belarusian human rights activist. Nasta has been persecuted for her human rights activities; since August 2021, she has been a suspect in a criminal case related to the activities of the human rights organization Viasna.

On September 6, 2022, after attending a court hearing in the "Revolutionary Action" case, Nasta was convicted twice of "petty hooliganism" and spent 30 days in prison. Three weeks after her release, on October 28, 2022, Nasta was detained again. At the trial, Nasta reported torture (GUBOPiK officers hit her with a stun gun and, like the Central Inspectorate of the Criminal Code, left her in the cold for 8 hours without outerwear, which is why she fell ill). In custody at Okrestina, Nasta was without warm clothes and personal hygiene products.

On 28.11.2022 it became known that Nastya was sentenced again to 15 days under Article 19.1 "petty hooliganism". The fifth time this fall.

In mid-December, she was detained for the 6th time under the same article, and at the end of the month, she was charged under criminal articles and transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1. According to the prosecution, one of her human rights reports on the persecution of the anarchist community in Belarus in 2018 contains a negative assessment of the illegal actions of police officers, which became the basis for initiating a criminal case against her. The group against which other social hatred was allegedly incited is a professional social group of law enforcement officers. As human rights activists note, such an interpretation of the article does not comply with international human rights standards, as evidenced by the practice of international judicial bodies.

Almost at the beginning of the court hearing, the trial was closed.

On 03.10.2023, the appeal was considered.

In July 2025, it became known that Nastya Loiko was placed in a PKT (cell-type facility) for 6 months.

Leader of the independent trade union "Naftan". Olga worked at the enterprise for 16 years and was fired because of her position. In May 2022, she was released after 75 days of arrest for speaking out against the war. She was detained on November 1 again under an administrative article.

Two days later, the court found her guilty of distributing "extremist materials" and sentenced her to 15 days in jail. On November 11, she was sentenced again to 15 days for "an unauthorized picket." The reason for the trial was a drawing with the inscription "No to war," which Olga published on social networks.
On November 21, 2022, it became known that Olga was transferred to a pre-trial detention center in Vitebsk.

In less than 2022, Britikova spent 105 days behind bars, including 75 days in a row in the spring.

She was detained again under Article 361, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus in August 2023. However, in the spring of 2024, Olga was tried under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

On June 11, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

On August 20, 2024, another closed trial was held over Olga. Yevgeny Burunov was appointed to hear her case in the Vitebsk Regional Court. The political prisoner is accused under three articles. It is known that Olga was given another three years in prison.

On December 20, 2024, the Supreme Court heard the appeal. Chairman of the Judicial Collegium Vladimir Davydov. According to the decision of the Collegium, Olga's second sentence was reduced by 1 year. Thus, the total term of the political prisoner is 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. As of early January 2025, Olga was in a pre-trial detention center, but at the end of the month she was transferred to Correctional Colony No. 4.

Detained in the case of A. Hralovich. The details of the case are unknown, since the trial took place in closed mode, and the criminal case itself is classified as secret.

Details of the convict's detention are known from the propaganda film «Operation KGB «Mankurty»», which Television News Agency showed in 2021.

It is known that Olga was held for a year in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee, where she was on a hunger strike. Then she was transferred to the pre-trial detention center-1.

«She was completely gray-haired. She was on hunger strike for a long time — she was even fed through the veins on her hands, so they were swollen like forest driftwood».

She began serving her sentence.