Irina was arrested in 2024 and convicted of "inciting hatred and discord" and insulting Lukashenko. It is also known that in February of that year, she was arrested on administrative charges of distributing materials included on the national list of extremist materials, as well as their production, storage, or transportation with intent to distribute.
In September 2025, she was released, having served her entire sentence.
The basis for the criminal case was the fact that in June 2024, in the presence of employees of the Krasnopolsky District Department of Internal Affairs and the Krasnopolsky District Department of Compulsory Enforcement, Kireyev, "using obscene language, expressed his negative assessment of the personality of the President of the Republic of Belarus."
According to calculations, he was supposed to be released in the summer of 2025.
Trial outcome 02.10.2024
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
On August 5, 2024, Judge Artem Vladimirovich Manzhos examined the administrative protocol against Tatyana under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity).
Tatyana was convicted for helping the repressed.
Trial outcome 02.10.2024
5 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Sergey Skibinsky is 41 years old. He is a designer. Previously, he was the director of the design agency poligraf.bу, which existed until 2020. Sergey also has an individual entrepreneurship in the field of design, makes his own illustrations and projects.
Sergei will be tried for "assisting extremism" and participating in protests.
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).
Trial outcome 18.10.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
A former journalist for Media-Polesye, Yevgeny was severely beaten during the protests.
On August 10, 2020, Yevgeny went to the protests as a journalist. He was detained , first beaten by police in the Pinsk City Executive Committee restroom, then in a police van. He was then taken to the Pinsk City Police Department's shooting range, where Ales Romanovich saw him badly beaten. He was then placed in the Pinsk temporary detention facility, and then taken to the pretrial detention center of the Ivatsevichi colony, where security forces had housed some of the detainees.
A week after the beating, the journalist still had bruises. It was reported that traces of the beating remained on his face even a month later, including deep scars. Media-Polesye also reported at the time that its employee had suffered an eye injury.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the fall of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
Valentina has a disability and groups, lives on a pension. After the elections, she was repeatedly fined under political administrative articles. Thus, in 2021, the woman was fined 1,160 rubles for a photo with a quote from the Bible " when the wicked reigns, the people groan." This was considered "unauthorized picketing."
During the peaceful marches in Vitebsk, Valentina used a wheelchair because she has difficulty walking.
In September 2024, it became known that Valentina would be tried for “assisting extremist activity.”
Trial outcome 09.10.2024
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Kirill worked at various factories and companies selling industrial equipment. In 2015, he founded a small company, Grifkom-Vector, which sold assembly line components (it closed in 2021). Kirill writes music and film scripts and is also listed in the national register of copyright holders.
He was detained in January 2024: initially for several days for “petty hooliganism,” but then he was not released and a criminal case was opened.
In September 2024, Kirill was convicted of "calls to actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus" and sentenced to imprisonment. In February 2025, he was convicted again, this time under the articles "creating or participating in an extremist group" and "inciting hostility or discord," and also 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 26.09.2024
3 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 22.11.2024
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 20.02.2025
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
LevIvchin is 21years old . The guyhid in Russiafor a long time. In the summer of 2024,he returned to Belarus,where he was detained .
Lev Valerievich Ivchin is the son of political prisoner Valery Ivchin. The latter was also tried in Mogilev in June 2024 under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for participating in Minsk protests. The court sentenced him to 2 years and 6 months of restricted freedom with referral to a correctional institution.
Trial outcome 20.09.2024
2 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility, 30 basic values fine.
Arrested on September 9, 2024, for protests in 2020.
Anton Bulakh, 32, is a former firefighter with the Oktyabrsky District Emergency Situations Department. He publicly resigned in 2020. After leaving, he worked in the IT sector.
He previously ran an Instagram account where he shared stories from his work. "What's the main thing in reports? Showing the end result: the fire is extinguished, there are no casualties. I try to write in a way that's engaging for people and gives them at least a basic understanding of what happens at every stage of the firefighters' work," Anton explained.
Possibly sentenced to domestic violence.
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).
Previously, Yury Makhnach was a PPS company commander in Lida. In August 2020, TUT.BY published his appeal. Yury Makhnach spoke about the beating of people in the Lida District Department of Internal Affairs, paddy wagons, and at a car wash in the department's service garage. Then,on August 18 , heresignedfrom service in the police .
On August 18, 2020, he resigned and later left Belarus for Poland due to the threat of persecution.
Trial outcome 02.10.2024
15 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
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