First,Ivan was arrestedfor15 days, thenplacedin a pretrial detention facility on a criminal case.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
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Businessman, head of the auditing company Ernst&Young.
Pavelwas detainedand placed in a pretrial detention center on charges of one of the political articles.It is known that the criminalcasewas openedfor the eventsof 2020.In2020, at the height of the beating of citizens by the police,a letter signed by Lashchenko was issued to the heads oflaw enforcementand government agencies , in which he expressed doubt in the figures voiced by Yermoshina, and also called on everyone to come to their senses and return to the rule of law.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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When in June 2024 the KGB of Belarus declared the Media IQ project an extremist group, it named Pitkevich among its participants. Around the same time, Polina's accounts were last online.
Polina Pitkevich was born in 1994. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University (2016). She was fond of theater and for some time played as an actress in the Laboratory of Social Theater in Minsk. As a journalist, she wrote on cultural topics. Polina is also known for her love of animals - on her social media pages, you can find many ads about helping homeless tailed ones. According to friends, Polina had more than one rescued cat living in her house.
Trial outcome 07.03.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
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5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.09.2024
unknown.
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Maxim Solop is 36 years old. He is originally from Brest. In 2012, he graduated from the Physics Department of the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. He worked as an engineer at the Brest Information Computing Center for Export-Import Transportation of the Belarusian Railway.
Maxim loves traveling and active recreation, and also engages in various sports and leads a healthy lifestyle.
His trial will begin on February 24, 2025, in the Brest City Court. Maxim is accused of "calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of Belarus" (Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code).
Trial outcome 26.02.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
4 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Andrey, the owner of the Grodno ethnic store "Tsudounya," was arrested on February 6, 2025, in connection with a criminal case related to the 2020 protests and later sentenced to restricted freedom.
He founded the store in 2015. After the 2020 elections, the business faced fines and the threat of losing its premises, but Andrei remained in Belarus and continued to support it, believing it was important for the preservation and development of Belarusian culture.
Trial outcome 16.05.2025
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
62-year-old employee of the computer science and communications laboratory of the Mozyr Oil Refinery.
Igor Shukanov was demonstratively and harshly detained on August 1, 2024. The GUBOP came for him from Minsk. He was detained right at his workplace. Then, in a factory UAZ-Patriot, he was taken outside the plant's checkpoint. Not far from the bus stop, in the parking lot near the main checkpoint of the plant, where there were people at the time, the GUBOPikovites staged a demonstrative beating of Shukanov - they pulled him out of the UAZ, threw him face down on the asphalt, pressed his knee on his head, and handcuffed him.
It is noteworthy that on the morning of that day Igor was tried under an administrative article for disseminating "extremism." He was given a fine and released - only to be arrested a few hours later.
Trial outcome 26.02.2025
unknown.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Mozyr activist and blogger Polina Zyl. As Nasha Niva learned, the girl was charged with participating in protests and being involved in an "extremist group." She is awaiting trial in a pretrial detention center.
Her boyfriend Maksim Shukanov was arrested along with her. There was no information about his release, most likely he is also in the pretrial detention center.
Polina is 31 years old. She is originally from Yelsk, studied in Mozyr. In 2020, the girl supported the protests, even got arrested for a day. Then Polina went into hiding, but remained in the country. Both Zyl and Shukanov were wanted, but did not want to leave Belarus.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Viktor was born in the Russian Federation, but has Belarusian citizenship. He lived in Ratomka.
The Linkedin page indicates that since 2018, Viktor has worked as a senior communications engineer at customs. This is probably what the criminal case against the man for "abuse of power or official authority" is connected to.
Trial outcome 03.03.2025
10 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Danila is a student at the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. On October 18, 2024, in the Novobelitsky District Court of Gomel, he and his mother Elena Chibisova were convicted under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (rape distribution of extremist materials). The outcome of that court hearing is unknown. After that, a criminal case was opened.
Trial outcome 03.03.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
He was detained in early September 2024 and received two terms under administrative article 19.1. He spent about a month in the Okrestina temporary detention facility, after which a criminal case was opened for insulting Lukashenko A. and he was transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Sergei Terekhovich is 42 years old. He was born and has lived his entire life in Grodno. Until the end of 2016, he served as a senior technician in border unit 2141, which serviced the Bruzgi checkpoint on the Belarusian-Polish border.
The service ended with an incomprehensible incident at the border - Sergei independently opened the barrier and allowed "citizen Terekhovych" to leave the checkpoint.
After 2016, Terekhovych started his own business. Sergey became the director of the company "Seviri Service", which provided funeral services. He also has the status of an individual entrepreneur, the scope of whose activities is designated "Postal and courier activities".
Trial outcome 10.03.2025
10 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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