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Ekaterina Evgenievna Chereshko
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folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 16.08.1991
Number of children: 2 children
Family members: Sergei Sergeevich Chereshko
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Blogger detained with her husband for participating in 2020 protests. Catherine has 2 minor sons. It became known that Ekaterina was released on bail not to leave home.

Trial outcome 10.03.2023
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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In custody: 55 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 28.11.1963
Was in: SIZO-1SIZO-1, Minsk 2 Volodarskogo St., 220030
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Detained for participating in protests.

Trial outcome 31.01.2023:

2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral

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In custody: 103 days
folder Categories of cases: Return to Belarus
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 30.08.1982
Family members: Pavel Miadzvedzeu
Was in: SIZO-1SIZO-1, Minsk 2 Volodarskogo St., 220030
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She was detained together with her husband after she returned from Poland to Belarus for participating in protest actions in 2020.

The spouses were convicted under an administrative article. But Varvara was never released after her administrative arrest — a criminal case was opened against her under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and transferred to the pre-trial detention center («SIZO-1»).

Varvara and Pavel are a family of photographers from Minsk, they have been together for more than ten years, and their creative duo has existed for as long. They specialize in wedding photos.

During their career, they have received more than two dozen awards in various categories for their wedding photographs.

Trial outcome 28.03.2023:

2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.

Tatyana Sergeevna Kurilina
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In custody: 1209 days
folder Categories of cases: Return to Belarus
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 05.06.1973
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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According to the investigation, from August 20, 2020, to February 20, 2022, Tatyana used Telegram channels to call on chat participants to commit violent acts against government officials and law enforcement agencies. She also collected, systematized, and disseminated information about the victims' private lives without their consent, including prosecutors and judges, allegedly harming their rights and legitimate interests. Some of the messages concerned Lukashenko.

According to Baipol, Tatyana was lured by Belarusian intelligence services: a young man convinced her to return to Belarus, promising to resolve all issues, after which she was detained by the KGB in August 2022.

In March 2023, Tatyana was convicted on a number of charges, including "inciting other social hatred and discord" and "insult," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large compensation payment to the "victims."

On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and taken to Ukraine.

Trial outcome 30.03.2023
4 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 100 basic values fine, 23500 rubles of compensation.
Appeal 20.06.2023
the sentence was upheld.
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In custody: 116 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 02.03.1988
Was in: SIZO-1SIZO-1, Minsk 2 Volodarskogo St., 220030
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Anastasia was detained in October 2022, first she was given 14 days of administrative arrest, and then for another 10 and 14 days, then a criminal case was opened for participating in protest actions in 2020.

Trial outcome 14.02.2023:

3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.

Alexandra Maratovna Rybchik
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In custody: 642 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 16.06.1993
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Alexandra works as a manager at the logistics company Trans Solutions. The reason for the arrest was her photographs on Tinder, where she stands on the road with a white-red-white flag during one of the protest marches in 2020. The publication about the arrest appeared in one of the unofficial telegram channels of security forces. A “repentance” video was shot with the girl, where she confirms her participation in the protests. At first she was placed in a temporary detention facility, then a criminal case was opened against her.

On April 21, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.

Trial outcome 04.02.2023:

2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.

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Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 07.02.1997
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Elena Alexandrovna Klimovich
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Hometown: Minsk
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According to the materials of the prosecution, Alena Klimovich took part in unauthorized mass events in Minsk twice from August to September 2020. At the same time, she used a red balloon and a white-red-white flag as protest symbols.

Elena Klimovich was detained on June 1, 2022 for three days, then she was under house arrest and proper behavior. The woman pleaded guilty in court.

Trial outcome 21.12.2022:

2.5 years of restriction of freedom without referral to an open institution

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In custody: 120 days
Hometown: Bogushi
Date of birth: 17.01.1960
Was in: Turma №1Turma №1, Grodno, Kirova 1, 230023
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Detained for participating in protests on August 9, 2020.

Trial outcome 17.03.2023:

3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.

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folder Categories of cases: Special proceedings (trials in absentia)
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 31.12.1985
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The verdict was delivered in absentia. The defendant herself was not present at the trial, as she has been abroad since the fall of 2020. This is the first verdict in Belarus in a criminal case, which was investigated within the framework of "special proceedings". Ex-chairman of BSSF Alexandra Herasimenia and executive director of the fund Alexander Opeikin were found guilty of calling for sanctions and other actions aimed at harming the national security of Belarus.

Trial outcome 26.12.2022
12 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).
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Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 06.07.1987
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Larisa Fyodorovna Shchiryakova
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In custody: ~1010 days
folder Categories of cases: Journalistic work
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 13.04.1973
Number of children: 1 child
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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In 2021, she publicly announced that she was leaving journalism. She explained her departure by saying that she had already had enough of being persecuted for working without accreditation. According to police reports, the courts punished the journalist with administrative fines more than forty times, including for covering post-election protests. Only one day was not assigned, since Shchiryakova was raising a minor son alone.

This year, in September, after the arrest of her former colleague in the journalistic field, Yevgeny Merkis, Shchiryakova raised the issue of the journalist’s detention in a pre-trial detention facility in her posts on social networks, and posted messages on her social network pages about solidarity actions with Yevgeny that were being held abroad.

After Larisa was detained, her son was taken to a shelter straight from school.

According to the case materials, Larisa Shchyryakova allegedly posted information on the Internet that discredited the Republic of Belarus. She is also accused of "collecting, creating, processing, storing and transmitting information for" Viasna" and "Belsat".

On the 11th of April 2025 it became clear that the 52nd anniversary of the Belarusian Regime Promymusov moved to the territory of Lithuania. There are people and citizens of the European countries. Larysa Shchyrakova was summoned.

Trial outcome 31.08.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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Hometown: Marina Gorka
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Elena Alexandrovna Efremenko
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In custody: ~668 days
Hometown: Hrodna
Date of birth: 08.10.1977
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: Turma №1Turma №1, Grodno, Kirova 1, 230023
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Citizen of the Russian Federation. Elena has two minor daughters (born in 2014 and 2015).

Before the trial, she was held in pretrial detention for 8 months .

In March 2023, it became known about Elena's serious condition in IK-4, where she was serving her sentence. "For example, when Elena was once in a very serious condition, she was not given medical care, although everything was extremely bad. She had a temperature of almost 40, she was delirious, then she started having problems with her joints, an abscess. But then she was not even assigned to the medical unit, the prisoners themselves took her there," said one of the former prisoners.

She was released on October 29, 2024, having served her entire sentence .

Elena was deported from Belarus.

Trial outcome 04.11.2022
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 10.01.2023
2 years 9 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~482 days
Hometown: Remezy
Date of birth: 26.01.1965
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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According to human rights activists , she was released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.

Trial outcome 29.11.2022
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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