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The Overchuk brothers were detained in early June. Pro-government telegram channels reported this. In the confessional video, the men say that on August 10, 2020, they were in Brest at a protest rally.
Also involved in this case are Oleg Litvinchuk and Alevtina Gudkova. His brother Matvey was also detained.
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The Overchuk brothers were detained in early June, according to pro-government Telegram channels. In a confessional video, the men say they were at a protest in Brest on August 10, 2020.
Matvey is engaged in car repair.
Oleg Litvinchuk and Alevtina Gudkova are also involved in this case.
He was expected to be released in February 2026 .
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Ruslan Musvydas will be tried for participating in protests. Artist-vocalist (soloist) in the National Academic Concert Orchestra of Belarus named after M. Finberg.
He won many festivals and vocal competitions, and now he chooses the winners himself: he was on the jury of the X Factor Belarus project, which took place on the Belarus 1 TV channel. Musvidas appears at most state concerts - at holidays, Slavic Bazaar, republican prom and so on, and appears in New Year's television concerts. He also sings during elections - on the single voting day, February 25, 2024, he performed at an “entertainment program for residents of the Zavodskoy District” at one of the polling stations.
On June 25, 2024, the singer’s ex-wife, Veronica, was convicted under the same article.
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Elena, a mother of many children, was detained in the spring of 2024. She was initially convicted in an administrative case for “disobeying a lawful order or demand of an official,” but later a criminal case was opened, in which she was convicted of “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order.”
She was released in November 2024 as part of a pardon.
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The reason for the detention of Gomel resident Vilen Turgunov was comments on the Internet, including negative ones towards the police.
Vilen Turgunov is 55 years old. His father is from Uzbekistan, his mother is Belarusian. Vilen graduated from the university in Russian Novozybkov (Bryansk region) with a degree in jurisprudence. Vilen Turgunov worked at the Zheleznodorozhny District Department of Internal Affairs of the regional center. There were serious problems there. Back in 2001, he received a reprimand for “irresponsible attitude to service,” in 2002 he had “incomplete official inconsistency,” and in 2004 he received a reprimand for “gross violation of official discipline, violation of an order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.”
Later, the former policeman worked at a construction and installation trust in Gomel.
The detainee actively maintained pages on various social networks, where he spoke about political and social events. For his support of Ukraine, other netizens called him a “Banderite.”
Vilen Turgunov’s relative, Igor Kazubov, is also serving a sentence.
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).
Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the winter of 2025.
Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2025.
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Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020 in Brest.
He is expected to be released on April 29, 2025.
Detained for participating in a protest on August 10, 2020, in Brest.
He was expected to be released in March 2026.
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He was arrested for participating in protests in Baranovichi in 2020. A video of the detainees was published by a Telegram channel affiliated with the security forces in July 2024. There, Alexey Pashkevich recounted that on August 9, 2020, he was in the city center, "when people started running en masse toward the police—my godfather and I went out onto the road to take photos, film, and document it all."
The court sentenced Alexei to three years of house arrest. However, in the spring of 2026, he faced a prison sentence (served in a penal colony) for three violations of the house arrest regime.
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Candidate of Historical Sciences, adjunct professor at the Institute of History, University of Wroclaw. Melnikov specialized in military history and the history of the period when Western Belarus was part of Poland (1921-1939). He has published a dozen and a half books on Western Belarus. In 2020, he was awarded the L. Sapieha Prize for the preservation of the historical heritage of Belarus.
It is known for sure that he was arrested and is being held in a pretrial detention center. Melnikov's last activity on Instagram dates back to January 21, 2024.
Melnikov is being tried for an interview he gave to an unnamed independent media outlet in 2022. The trial is being held in open mode. An excerpt from the indictment was quoted by SB:
"In 2022, Igor Melnikov, motivated by national hatred and discord, as well as political and ideological hatred, knowingly knowing about the extremist activities of participants in an information resource banned in Belarus, gave them an interview in order to develop and popularize media of this kind and involve more citizens in such activities," the prosecutor said. It is noted that the historian gave comments to the media both in Belarus and in Poland. Melnikov reportedly admitted his guilt.
The Court of Appeal reduced the sentence imposed by the court of first instance by 2 years.
Igor was released in early September 2025, having served his full sentence.
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Lyudmila Deineko is 40 years old. She graduated from Polotsk State University in 2005 with a degree in law. She initially worked in the Minsk Regional Executive Committee's Department of Internal Affairs, then in the Minsk City Executive Committee's Department of Justice, and as a consultant at the Zavodskoy District Court in Minsk.
The trial begins on July 22. Deineko is accused of "calling for sanctions," "insulting Lukashenko," and "inciting hostility or discord."
Lyudmila has two minor children.
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).
On May 15, 2023, ONT released the propaganda film “Killer Package” of Death: Who and How Wanted to Commit a Terrorist Attack on Victory Day,” which told the details of the case. It was reported there that allegedly the KGB, on the eve of Victory Day on May 9, 2023, “prevented a terrorist attack under the supervision of Kiev." They said that the explosives were in electric stoves, which were sent to the detainees via parcels. The organizer of the action was named 23-year-old Belarusian Valery Vodin, who fought in Ukraine.
The video said that parcels with electric stoves containing explosives were delivered to the Minsk SDEK point in Kamennaya Gorka on March 21, 2023 from Kyiv via Italy. 29-year-old Victoria Volchek confirmed during interrogation that she received the package - Valery Vodin asked her to receive the package. BSU student Anna Savochkina and her mother Tatyana Rusak took the tile from Volchek and buried it in the cemetery in Kolodishchi. The second tile was picked up by dental technician Andrei Grigoriev and taken to the gardening partnership "Avtoremontnik 124" near Olekhnovichi.