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Sergey is originally from Kherson, Ukraine, but has lived in Belarus almost his entire life. He has worked in various blue-collar jobs throughout his life. He has two young children.
The man was detained in February 2023. In a pro-government video, he claims to have left comments on Telegram and registered with the "Plan Peramoga" chatbot. He was first convicted in October 2023 for "inciting other social hatred" (Part 1, Article 130 of the Criminal Code).
On December 8, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
Sergei's next trial will begin on September 27, 2024, in the Minsk City Court. He is charged under four articles: "participation in an extremist group" (Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code), "incitement of other social hatred" (Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code), "insulting a government official" (Article 369 of the Criminal Code), and "insulting Lukashenko" (Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code). Sergei faces up to five years in prison in addition to his previous sentence.
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).
According to the accusation, one December night, he wrote the phrase “ACAB” and twice “Long live Belarus” on the Brest stall “Snuffboxes”. For this, they counted 18 rubles of “damage” (which the guy compensated before the trial).
2 months of arrest.
Vladimir was accused of administering the community on VKontakte “FOR THE ADZINU DZYARZHANU MOVU IN BELARUS!”
In February 2021, Vladimir Butkovets contacted the Gomel Investigative Committee with a request to be questioned as a witness in the case of human rights activist Leonid Sudalenko , to whom he had repeatedly sought legal assistance.
In the summer of 2022, Vladimir was fired from his job as "politically unreliable."
Vladimir was first detained on September 5, 2022, and sentenced to seven days in jail under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for "dissemination of extremist materials."
On February 13, 2023, the Gomel Regional Court sentenced him to three years in a maximum-security penal colony.
The appeal hearing took place on April 18, 2023. The Supreme Court commuted the sentence to three years of restricted freedom in an open correctional facility. Vladimir was released from Pretrial Detention Center No. 3 and remains at large pending his transfer to a correctional facility.
The reason for the detention and the place of detention are not known to human rights activists.
A resident of the Ivatsevichi district. She keeps horses in the village of Khodorki, gives the opportunity to ride them and take photos. This activity of hers is registered as the equestrian farmstead "Razgon".
She was charged under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code for publicly insulting Lukashenko. On September 20, 2023, the woman published a "repentant video" in which she says that she received a punishment in the form of "house arrest".
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The reason for the arrest Vera and her husband Andrey (elder of the Novaya Zemlya Baptist Church) Probably, the published photos from the 2020 protests have become. A criminal case was initiated against Momoiko's family for participating in protest actions.
Andrey and Vera Mamoyko are also well-known musicians who have participated in the recording of several albums of Christian music. At the moment, Mamoiko worked as a developer in one of the IT companies in Belarus.
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The reason for the arrest of Andrei (an elder of the Novaya Zemlya Baptist Church) and his wife Vera was probably the published photos from the 2020 protests. A criminal case was initiated against Momoiko's family for participating in protest actions.
Andrey and Vera Mamoyko are also well-known musicians who have participated in the recording of several albums of Christian music. At the moment, Mamoiko worked as a developer in one of the IT companies in Belarus.
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
Dmitry Stepanov was placed in pretrial detention. He was initially tried under administrative "political" charges, but was later charged with allegedly "creating and leading an extremist group" (Part 1, Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). The "extremist group" refers to the local Brest protest Telegram chat "GOBK."
Released on parole in December 2024
It is known that the woman was detained in December 2022. Before the trial, she was under house arrest, and after her detention, she spent three days from 16 to 19 December 2022 in the Pinsk TDF. Natalya Pavlyuchenko was convicted for a comment on the Odnoklassniki social network on March 17, 2021 towards Lukashenka in the Media Polesie group under the news about a patient who died in a Pinsk hospital. The comment was recognized as a deliberate public insult to Lukashenka. At the trial, Natalya pleaded not guilty. She explained that she saw in the group a message about the death of a patient due to the actions of Lukashenka's guards, so she posted the message. But she does not admit guilt, since the comment was not about Lukashenka, but about his guards, and was related not to his personality, but to the actions of the guards.
2 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
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The man was accused of participating in protests in 2020 and going out onto the roadway. "They stood in a chain with other people, clapped their hands, shouted loudly, and shouted various slogans," the court ruling says.
At the rally, police officers pushed Kirill back with a metal shield and cut his head with a rubber truncheon until it bled.
Komarov fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions.
Kirill has a secondary specialized education and is supporting a minor child.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Belarusian shot putter, bronze medalist of the 2008 Olympic Games, world and European champion. Honored Master of Sports of the Republic of Belarus. She signed the athletes' letter "For Fair Elections and Against Violence", openly condemned the Lukashenko regime and the war in Ukraine.
The reasons for the detention are unknown.
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Ilya and his friend Vladislav Mazurov were accused of the fact that on October 27, 2022, the guys, being drunk, tore down the national flag of the Republic of Belarus, hanging on the club building in the a-t. Temny Les. At the same time, they broke the flagpole. Then, returning from the a-t. Temny Les at the place of residence, the guys arranged a photo session with a flag.
According to human rights activists, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.