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Citizen of Ukraine.
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.
Mikhail graduated from the Belarusian National Technical University, where he studied in the Faculty of Information Technology and Robotics. He is the creator of the startup HandEnergy, a smartphone charger that generates electricity through the mechanical motion of the hand, allowing it to charge smartphones. In 2017, Belarusian and international media reported on the development. Mikhail lived and traveled abroad for a long time, including in Europe and the United States. In early December, he was detained in Gomel. Human rights activists believe the criminal prosecution is politically motivated and connected to the "Gayun case."
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Citizen of Ukraine.
According to his social media , he moved to Mozyr from Ukraine in 2017. He initially worked as a supervisor at the Minsk Grape Wine Factory. His most recent position was as a sales specialist at Servolux Trading House, a company that distributes meat products for the agroholding.
He was pardoned on November 22, 2025, along with 31 other Ukrainian citizens. According to Lukashenko's press service, this occurred as part of "agreements reached" with US President Donald Trump and "at the request of the Ukrainian side in order to create conditions for resolving the armed conflict in the neighboring state." The released citizens were immediately handed over to the Ukrainian side.
Photographer. Natalia took a lot of nature photographs, especially of birds, and was well known in the now-disbanded amateur ornithologist organization "Bird Protection of the Fatherland."
Natalia was diagnosed with liver cancer while in pretrial detention.
During the appeal hearing, the Supreme Court reclassified the charge from "financing extremist activity" to "assisting extremist activity" (Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code). As a result, given her poor health, Natalia's sentence was reduced to three years of restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility (house arrest).
Vyacheslav was convicted in 2025 under the articles "insulting a government official," "insulting Lukashenko," and "inciting hostility or discord" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released on March 20, 2026, as part of a pardon following another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole.
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Kirill is known as the founder of the unique art village " Chyrvony Kastrychnik" (Red October in the Rechitsa district). Here he lived, practiced crafts, established his own pottery workshop, and organized festivals and creative gatherings. Together with his enthusiastic friends, Kirill purchased several houses in the village and saved it from extinction by establishing an eco-village there.
Kirill Kravtsov was previously widely reported in state media as a participant in the "With a Stool to the Ocean" campaign, during which the Belarusian traveled halfway around the world hitchhiking.
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Irina was detained on June 25, 2025. As she was leaving the oncology center, several people in full gear and with batons jumped out at the woman, grabbed her, and placed her in their minibus. This happened in front of the patients and medical staff working at the oncology center.
Irina has a complex form of lymphoma and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. The lack of proper treatment may lead to the patient's death. Irina Levina was detained by punitive forces in connection with some politically motivated case. Most likely, the detention was carried out by GUBOPiK officers. The essence of the charges is still unknown.
She was held in pretrial detention facility No. 3. As of August 2025, Irina's preventive measure was changed , and she is no longer in a pretrial detention facility .
In October 2024, she was convicted under an administrative article, after which a criminal case was opened.
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She holds Russian citizenship. She was detained on April 23 , 2025, and her home was searched the same day. She was detained in connection with a criminal case involving messages posted to the "Belarusian Gayun " bot .
Yaroslava is originally from Rogachev. At some point, she moved to Mozyr, likely right after graduating from university.
In recent years, she worked as a teacher in a village school. She taught German at the Moiseevskaya Basic School in the small agricultural town of the same name. She also served as a teacher organizer.
On March 19, 2026, she 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).
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A 62-year-old employee of the computer science and communications laboratory at the Mozyr Oil Refinery.
Igor Shukanov was brutally and demonstratively detained on August 1, 2024. The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GUBOP) arrived from Minsk to pick him up. He was detained right at his workplace. He was then driven in a UAZ Patriot vehicle outside the plant's gate. Not far from the bus stop, in a parking lot near the plant's main entrance, where people were present at the time, the GUBOP officers staged a demonstrative beating of Shukanov: they dragged him out of the UAZ, threw him face down on the pavement, kneed him in the head, and handcuffed him.
Remarkably, that morning Igor was tried on an administrative charge for spreading "extremism." He was fined and released, only to be arrested a few hours later.
According to calculations, he was supposed to be released in early 2026 .
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Victoria is a well-known Belarusian blogger "gusarev_ka", she has more than 32 thousand subscribers on Instagram and more than 17 thousand on TikTok. Her last messages are dated September - under them people write that the girl is in a pre-trial detention center.
Vika has a 6-year-old son.
On the night of October 13-14, 2023, in the center of the pine forest, the official red-green flag was removed from the flagpole and thrown into the trash bin, and the Ukrainian flag was attached in its place. The person who did this was detained based on the recording of a surveillance camera installed on the village council building. Valeriy Samsonenko previously worked in the Svetlogorsk district department of emergency situations, but quit.
On 05.04.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Detained along with her entire family (mother, father, brother) on suspicion of "treason". Worked as a nurse at the Gomel Regional Clinical Hospital. Details of the case are unknown. The charges were dropped during the investigation and Nastya was released from custody .