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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.
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).
A pro-government Telegram channel has published a video that uses fragments of video footage from a protest march in Glubokoe, which took place on August 16, 2020. It was the largest march in the regional center, when participants left the sidewalks for the roadway. In the video, three Glubokoe residents admit that they were actually participants in that march. The "video production" of the Telegram channel's authors also contains footage of the brutal detentions of several men. Aivar is also in this video.
Some of the detainees were taken to the Vitebsk pretrial detention center. They are charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (Participation in actions that grossly violate public order).
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.
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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.”
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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.
Lev Ivchin is 21 years old . The guy hid in Russia for 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.
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Detained for reposting from social networks and participating in protests in 2020.
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 , he resigned from service in the police .
On August 18, 2020, he resigned and later left Belarus for Poland due to the threat of persecution.
It is known that Viktor's brother is a political prisoner. Most likely, this is Mikhail Tarasevich, who received six years in prison for his comments and is serving his sentence in Colony No. 1 in Novopolotsk.
Viktor is accused of participating in protests and commenting in Telegram chats. The guy did not defend his Telegram account at all, from which he left many comments. He even published current stories there, and the page was linked to his own Belarusian number.
In a pro-government video, one of the Khilchuk brothers says that they were in the city center during the 2020 rallies. Another brother says that they also went to Minsk. At this point, a selfie of one of them with politician Pavel Latushko is shown.