All persecuted

Ex-policeman. According to the prosecution, on May 27, Butko, who after leaving the police became the director of a commercial transport company, struck his employee Andrei Zakhar "at least 12 times in the head" with his fists. The victim said in court that he had "no complaints" against Butko.

In 2017, Butko resigned from the service, and in 2020, he spoke out against the brutality of the security forces. In May 2021, Lukashenko stripped him of the rank of reserve police lieutenant colonel.

He was brought to administrative charges for participating in protests, which the court took into account when sentencing him. It is known that he is on the profukus list in prison as someone prone to extremism. The human rights organization RPF (Respect-Protect-Fulfill) finds a political component in his case.

Businessman , head of the auditing company Ernst&Young.

Pavel was detained and placed in a pretrial detention center on charges of one of the political articles. It is known that the criminal case was opened for the events of 2020. In 2020, at the height of the beating of citizens by the police, a letter signed by Lashchenko was issued to the heads of law enforcement and 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.

The details of the case are unknown. Alexander was probably detained in January 2024. According to information on his social networks, the man is married and graduated from BSUIR in 2014.

He probably worked in the Criminal Intelligence Department, which filed a lawsuit against Alexander for causing property damage. It should be noted that the Criminal Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs appeared in Belarus in April of this year - previously it was called the Department for Ensuring Operational Investigative Activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The process will be held behind closed doors.

Ilya Naryshkin is 21 years old. He is originally from Slonim, but spent part of his childhood in Grodno. Ilya’s father is Ukrainian, born in Krivoy Rog. He graduated from an aviation school back in Soviet times, but worked as a mechanical engineer in different countries. They haven’t lived together with the guy’s mother for a very long time.

Ilya entered the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Now he should have completed his third year at the Faculty of Criminal Corrections. It is known that during his studies he lived an active life - he performed in various competitions and even participated in an intellectual game from the Belarus-2 TV channel, called “Tower”. The latest public information about him dates back to March 2023.

Perhaps 21-year-old Ilya Naryshkin wanted to join the Belarusian volunteers in Ukraine. People who expressed their intention to go to fight on the side of Ukraine, expressed online or offline, were most often judged under the articles that were brought against him lately. Some of these people corresponded with fake bots of the Kalinovsky regiment, created by the special services of the Republic of Belarus.

Ilya has been working for the IT company iTechArt for over twelve years. This is a large company with over one and a half thousand employees. Ilya is a Senior software engineer. Gumbar has two well-known hobbies - sports tourism and trail running. Trail running is running long distances across rough terrain, often impassable forests or high mountains (within the route, the altitude differences can reach thousands of meters). He ranks second in Belarus among men in this discipline according to the UTMB rating.

On September 3, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

The investigation established that Artur Radzivanovich “on his own initiative entered into correspondence with representatives of the armed formation “K. Kalinovsky’s Regiment” via Telegram.” During the conversation, he clarified the procedure and conditions for enlisting in the regiment, and then planned the crossing of the state border of the Republic of Belarus with the Republic of Poland and the further route to Ukraine. Arriving on December 30, 2023 at the international checkpoint “Brest” to travel to Ukraine through the territory of Poland, the accused was detained by internal affairs officers.

Detained along with other young people in Baranavichy (late December 2023).

And the press service of the court announced the verdict (without naming names, but the circumstances fit this group of people). The essence of the charges is briefly stated: they were on the roadway in Baranavichy, shouting slogans, displaying white-red-white flags, “deliberately obstructing the movement of traffic and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.” The exact date when the protests took place is not even indicated, it is simply called “August 2020.”

Thus, in 2024, 25 residents of Baranavichy have already been sentenced for the protests of August 2020. All were sentenced to a prison colony for a period of 1 to 3 years (the only exception was that a woman with a child under 3 years of age was sentenced to a suspended sentence).

Convicted for comments on social networks.

The essence of the accusation is still unknown to human rights activists.

The trial, which lasted from February 9, found Degterenko guilty of “joining an extremist formation” and under Part 3 of Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code, he was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of three years.

He was also found guilty of “providing funds by any means for the purpose of use in terrorist activities, material support and other support” by a person who had previously committed a crime under Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code, and according to Part 2 of Art. 290-1 of the Criminal Code (as amended by the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated January 09, 2019 No. 171-Z), he was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 8 years with a fine of 100 basic units.

By partial addition of the sentences, the accused was finally sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 8 years 6 months.

On May 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

Cook, resident of Novobelitsa.

There are quite a lot of posts and messages about Belarusian security forces and government officials on Igor’s social networks. He was also among the 500 subscribers in 2019 to an appeal to then-Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, which concerned the reburial of the remains of the rebels of 1863-1864 hanged by the tsarist authorities.

It is unknown what punishment the man was given. But it is associated with imprisonment.

On April 26, 2024, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.

He was detained along with his entire family (mother, father, sister) on suspicion of “treason.” The sister was apparently later released. Pavel is 27 years old. He was born in Grabovka. Worked in construction.

Participants in a closed process have non-disclosure agreements. It is known from an unofficial source that the criminal case concerns photographing various objects on the territory of Belarus, and the persons involved in the case were monitored by special services for some time before their arrest.

The Prokhorov family lived for a long time in the village of Grabovka, Gomel region. At the time of their arrest, they lived in the village of Uza, Gomel region, where they moved two years ago.

Yarmoshuk was first detained in this case on March 23, 2023, and was held for three days. Then they released him, but on June 11, 2023 they detained him again and took him into custody.

According to the indictment, on March 1, 2022, Yarmoshuk downloaded several files from the ItArmy of Ukraine website that allow DDoS attacks. Then he launched the program on his computer “at least 8 times,” which “broke the protection system against DDoS attacks” and “the operation of unidentified Internet resources of the Russian Federation was disrupted.” Thus, according to the state prosecution, Yarmoshuk “used malicious, potentially dangerous programs.” Also on August 19, 2020, Yarmoshuk transferred about $60 to the BySOL initiative via Facebook. 7 months later (March 12, 2021), the Belarusian authorities recognized the BySOL Foundation as an “extremist formation.” The fact that at the time of the money transfer BySOL was not an “extremist formation” does not bother the state prosecution.

On January 12, 2024, an appeal hearing was held at the court. The verdict came into force.

Due to the closed nature of the trial, the essence of the case is still unknown. It is only known that Vladimir Romanovsky was detained in Bobruisk during the “feeding the pigeons” event on May 9, 2020. Then riot police detained about 15 people in the city.

According to the verdict , Romanovsky has now been found guilty of publicly insulting Lukashenko on social networks and has been sentenced to imprisonment.

On 02/06/2024, the court's appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.