Nina Baginskaya, 78, became a symbol of the 2020 protests. Photos of her holding the national flag were published in many foreign media outlets.
She went to her first protest in 1988 in Kurapaty near Minsk, where there are mass graves of Belarusian victims of the Stalin regime. Later, Baginskaya took part in opposition actions held in memory of the Chernobyl disaster, the disappearance of opposition politicians, and in protest against the annexation of Crimea. She was detained and fined many times. "I need to live 120 years to pay them all off," Nina said in an interview. Since 2016, 20% of Baginskaya's pension has been deducted to pay fines, and since 2017, 50%. In 2016, bailiffs confiscated the pensioner's microwave and washing machine. A few years later, the state seized and put her two summer houses up for sale.
Baginskaya explains her activity by a sense of duty to her descendants.
In 2025, the basis of the charges in the criminal case against Baginskaya was administrative protocols and court decisions from 2024.
Nina Baginskaya has a number of serious illnesses and needs timely medical treatment. In prison conditions, her life could be in serious danger.
Nina was found guilty of "repeated violations of the law on holding mass events," but instead of punishment she was given "preventive observation."
Pavel was arrested and convicted under the articles “organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them,” “inciting hostility or discord,” and “slander against Lukashenko,” and was 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.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Elena is the wife of political prisoner Alexander Sharabayko, a bodybuilder from the deep, sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment.
His wife Elena was convicted of participating in a peaceful march, as were a number of residents of Glubokoe. Last fall, a police raid took place in the district center, during which security forces detained at least 20 people. During the inspection of the phones and computers of the detainees, the police identified several other participants in public protests from photographs.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Nikita, the younger brother of political prisoner Ihar Losik, was allegedly detained in April 2025 on charges of “assisting extremist activity” for allegedly forwarding several photographs of military equipment moving in 2022 to the Telegram channel “Belaruski Gayun”.
Nikita left Belarus before he began serving his sentence.
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