All persecuted

35-year-old Mikhail was accused of writing a public insult about Valentin Pashkevich on August 9, 2021 at 23:19 in the telegram chat “Real Belarus Chat”, namely using the word “moron.”

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Former executive director of Belarusbank. He was detained along with his wife for participating in protests in 2020.

In the fall of 2017, Anatoly Bogovik was sentenced to eight years in prison allegedly for corruption, but a few years later he was released on pardon.

On 20 October 2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.

On July 29, 2024, Anatoly had a trial in Volkovysk to establish preventive supervision .

According to human rights activists , he will be released at the end of the summer of 2024 , having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

He is expected to be released at the end of summer 2024 .

The wife of Anatoly Anatolyevich Bogovik, former executive director of Belarusbank. They were detained for participating in the 2020 protests and charged with participating in the 2020 protests.

On 20.10.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.

The Bogoviks have two children to support.

According to human rights activists, she will be released in 2025.

Anton Khadkevich is known to have worked as a power engineer for a Minsk company that at the time serviced the Mozyr Oil Refinery. He was detained in November 2022 by officers from the Gomel Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption and the Special Purpose Police (OMON) at his workplace. He was held in Pretrial Detention Center No. 3 pending trial.

He was scheduled to be released on November 24 , 2025 .

Daughter of journalist Dmitry Lupach. On May 3, she was sentenced to 24 hours for distributing so-called extremist materials on social networks and instant messengers. After that, she had another trial, during which the girl was also given a 25-basic fine for this. After which Svetlana was transferred to pre-trial detention center-2, she is charged with a criminal offense for participating in protests.

On January 05, 2024, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.

Released in July 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Yuri Dobrokhotov was arrested on April 20, 2023, on suspicion of “petty hooliganism,” but was charged for participating in a protest in 2020. After a search of his residence, a jar containing a small amount of marijuana was allegedly found in the apartment.

During the trial, Dobrokhotov pleaded not guilty to two charges. He explained that in September 2020, after work, he saw a lot of people heading towards Pobediteley Avenue. He didn’t know any of them. People were walking along the sidewalks. He went with them, entered the crowd, because he was interested in what was going on there. He didn’t have any prohibited symbols with him. And regarding the circumstances of the charge of possession of narcotic substances, he reported that a certain A. had been staying in his apartment for 4 months. When he left, he temporarily left some things in his apartment, among which a jar of “weed” was later found.

During his arrest, Yuri was beaten by police officers.

For the totality of the crimes, the final sentence was imprisonment for a term of two years. On 20.10.2023, the appeal was considered.

Evgeniy’s “crime,” according to the prosecution, is that in April 2022, on the Odnoklassniki social network, a man gave a “class” reaction to the publication of the group “STOP LUKA.” After the “class” reaction, this post appeared on Bilobrovko’s page. With this, according to the prosecution, the man publicly insulted A. Lukashenko.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

He served his sentence in a correctional institution under Article 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, where his sentence was replaced with a restriction of liberty to imprisonment (10 months and 7 days). While in the correctional institution, he wrote "offensive" comments, for which he was sentenced to 1 year and 1 month of imprisonment.

On January 22, 2024, Vadim was tried again under Article 411, Part 1 of the Criminal Code, “Malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional institution executing a sentence of imprisonment.”

He was scheduled to be released on July 6, 2025.

On July 25, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.

According to the investigation , Nikita Struy, from May to November 2022, “in order to spread the ideology of Nazism, approve and deny crimes against the peace and security of mankind, war and other crimes, using a mobile phone he repeatedly posted images and comments in various Telegram channels aimed at the rehabilitation of Nazism.

In July and August 2022, in order to ensure the activities of the destructive Telegram channel and Telegram group, he, clearly knowing that their information products were recognized by the court as extremist materials, forwarded publications from these resources to other Telegram communities.”

Nikita Brui is the great-great-cousin of the people's writer of Belarus Yakub Kolas, and studied at a high school in the village of Nikolayevshchina.

In November 2022, state channels reported the detention of five participants in the closed chat “Union of the Belarusian National Shield” (UBNSH), recognized as an “extremist formation.”

The sentence was reduced on appeal from three to two years.

On September 15, 2023, the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

The man worked as an ambulance doctor in Baranovichi and was remanded in custody pending trial. He was initially accused of "rehabilitating Nazism" for a repost that compared leaflets from Nazi Germany and leaflets from modern Russia. But in the middle of the trial, the charge was changed to "inciting hatred" towards Russians and Russians.

On September 22, 2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.

He was scheduled to be released on July 11, 2025.

He worked in the store "Green" as an electrician. I was detained on November 29, 2022 right at the workplace. First he received 15 days of arrest under 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Then a criminal case was opened. In a comment in which Vladimir condemned Russian military aggression, the investigator saw assistance to extremism.

On June 23, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.

It is known that the man was tried for actions during the referendum in 2022 and the administration of the telegram channel of the Military Academy of Belarus.

According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.

Oleg was tried for having painted several walls in the entrance of a multi-story building in February 2023. The inscriptions contained insults to A. Lukashenko.

Kardash was detained for the first time in March 2023. He was tried three times under administrative articles. Each time, he was sentenced to "24 hours." The first trial took place on March 9, 2023, because a video from August 2020 with the TUT.BY logo was found on the man's Odnoklassniki social network. The second trial took place on March 17, because cutting boards with "an image of a dog in a helmet with the SS emblem, a board with an image of a man in a helmet with the SS emblem" were found at the man's home - that is, Kardash allegedly "stored items with Nazi symbols for the purpose of distribution." The third trial took place on March 29 because he shared a video on the Odnoklassniki social network: the video had the Nexta logo (there was a brutal suppression of the Minsk protests that took place on the night of August 9-10, 2020). Kardash shared this video on August 14, 2020.

On September 12, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists , he was released in October 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.