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Violetta is an artist from the Gomel region. In 2020, she and activist Dmitry Lukomsky moved to Ukraine due to political persecution. There, in 2023, they launched the project "Tviy Susid" (Your Home)—a website about Belarus for Ukrainians.
Violetta was tried under articles 361-1 and 368 of the Criminal Code for creating an "extremist group" and insulting Lukashenko. She was accused of administering the Telegram chat "Petrikov 97%," which the authorities later designated an "extremist group."
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Sergei was convicted in 2025 in a criminal case brought under the articles "insulting a government official," "insulting a judge," "insulting Lukashenko," and "inciting hostility or discord," and sentenced to imprisonment.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
A graduate of the Faculty of Information Technology at PSU. In 2014, the girl was awarded a scholarship from the Novopolotsk City Executive Committee "for academic success and social activity."
In 2023, young mother, programmer and model Tatyana Makhanyok was already fined for "spreading extremism." Then, Judge Mikhail Yurchenko gave her a fine of 925 rubles.
In 2025, a criminal case was opened.
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Anastasia Raevskaya is a mother of many children. Together with her husband Evgeny, they are raising three children. The youngest son, Artem, was born in March 2021. In 2022, the Mozyr State Newspaper wrote about the family. Propagandists said that the family used "family capital" to purchase part of a block house in Kamenka and moved from Mozyr to the village.
Most likely, Anastasia Rayevskaya was repressed in the high-profile so-called “Belarusian Gayun case” – a monitoring channel that tracked the actions of the Russian army in Belarus during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Very close to the village of Kamenka, on the outskirts of the neighboring village of Bolshoy Bokov in the Mozyr district, there is a former airfield of the Bellesavia enterprise, which the Belarusian authorities gave to the Russian occupation army before the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine.
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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).
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Oleg is an engineer by training. He enjoys traveling and active recreation.
Oleg has been a videographer for over 10 years. In 2015, he set up his own business. Oleg specializes in wedding and family photography, but also takes on personal photos and narrative videos.
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).
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A monk of the Carmelite order, he belongs to the community of the Carmelite monastery of the Basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Krakow.
Grzegorz Havel was born in Rzeszow, Poland. In 2018, he decided to dedicate his life to prayer in the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. He took his first temporary vows on August 18, 2020, and renewed them annually. On March 19, 2025, he took his perpetual vows. This is the act of committing a monk to the order and his chosen way of life until death. In 2020, he began his theology studies at the Pontifical John Paul II University in Krakow, and in early July 2025, he defended his master's thesis on "The Spirituality of the Blessed Family of Ulm," dedicated to a Catholic family murdered by the Nazis during the occupation of Poland during World War II for aiding Jews.
A pro-government video showed Grzegorz holding eight A4-sized printouts. It was claimed to be a photocopy of a classified document titled "Order on the Organization of Preparations for and Participation in the Zapad-2025 Special Purpose Transport (SSU)." Propagandists claimed the detainee was suspected of espionage.
On April 28, 2026, Grzegorz was released following lengthy negotiations and an exchange for Belarusian spies in Poland. He was immediately transported to Poland.
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Julia Fenner has dual citizenship - Belarusian and British.
In the early 2000s, Julia worked at the British Embassy in Minsk. She married Martin Fenner, the Deputy Head of Mission. After Belarus, the family lived in Turkmenistan and Yekaterinburg, Russia, where Martin was posted.
The woman was detained at the border on March 31, 2024, while trying to enter Belarus. She was charged under two articles of the Criminal Code: Article 342 (active participation in actions that grossly violate public order) and Parts 1 and 2 of Article 361-4 (assistance to extremist activity). However, the essence of the charges is unknown to human rights activists. The detainee was placed in a pretrial detention center pending trial.
As a result, on August 21 of this year, Yulia was sentenced to seven years in prison.
On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 political prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries . Among those released is Julia Fenner.