All persecuted

On August 4, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.

Natalia Zhlobo works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literature of the Faculty of English at Moscow State Linguistic University.

The arrest took place at the end of March, and since then Natalya has been in jail. The exact reason for the detention, as well as the number of the criminal article, is still unknown, but we are talking about a political case .

On October 6, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

Mikhail Stolyarchuk was convicted under Article 358-1 of the Criminal Code (intelligence activities). He is a Ukrainian citizen. His nephew, Dmitry Gudik, was also charged in the case. According to the prosecution, they had been collecting data on military equipment and facilities in Belarus on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine since 2018. Igor Dirko was also detained with them, but instead of being prosecuted, he was deported from Belarus.

Worked as a bus driver on Belarus-Ukraine routes.

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.

A Polish citizen was convicted of "intelligence activities" in the Republic of Belarus. In April 2023, Jerzy turned 58 years old. He comes from a border village near Bialystok, and has lived in Belarus since the 90s - he moved to Grodno after getting married. Until the verdict, his relatives were sure that this was a mistake and Jerzy would be released. The relatives of the accused still cannot understand how he attracted the attention of the security forces.

On June 21, 2025, Jerzy was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg.

The ONT TV channel showed a “repentance” video with Victoria. A criminal case was opened against her and she was placed in custody. In the story, she is accused of evading taxes, subscribing to “extremist” channels, leaking data from security forces, participating in the Peramoga plan, and financing extremist activities. The court found Victoria guilty of providing funds to knowingly support the activities of an extremist group, deliberately illegally collecting and providing information about the private life and personal data of another person without his consent.

Together with Victoria, her husband Dmitry was detained, who served 30 days of administrative arrest and was released.

Dmitry is the director of the Gomel Motor Repair Plant, the vocalist of the ethno-group “Ban-Graviyba”, and Victoria is an entrepreneur. They are also famous dancers.

Dmitry Bogush worked in the banking sector for 18 years, was Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of JSC «‎Technobank». Subsequently, he went into business — built wind farms at two sites in the Grodno region.

In December 2022, 50-year—old Bogush was detained for an article about inciting discord - he allegedly wrote comments on social networks threatening Lukashenko and law enforcement officers.

According to Bogush, he was prompted to speak publicly on social networks by photos of beaten young people detained at protests after the 2020 elections.

The businessman said that he subsequently deleted his posts, but refused to leave Belarus, although his friends told him about it.

Artem Zubryakov, a Belagro employee, was detained in late September 2022 along with his colleagues. Criminal cases were reportedly opened against four of them, and approximately 20 were detained. Pro-government sources reported that the company's employees had been actively protesting since 2020.

During a search in the fall of 2022, paraphernalia and furniture in white-red-white colors were seized from them.

Artem Zubryakov noted that he was detained for subscribing to "prohibited" Telegram channels and forwarding "extremist" materials.

The trial was held behind closed doors.

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).

20 year old Vladislav was accused of taking photos and videos of military equipment, military personnel, as well as a military airfield in Bobruisk from February 24 to February 25, 2022.

Then Vladislav forwarded at least 9 video files and photos to a telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus.

Convicted for donations in bysol.

According to pro-government telegram channels, four people were detained - they are called a "sleeper cell of extremists" who had "external connections" with Belarusian volunteers fighting in Ukraine. Among them was Vladimir.

All of them are from Gomel and, judging by their posts on social networks, have been friends for a long time, participating together in an international game of Beer Pong in Gomel.

After the brutal detention, the friends were forced to record a “repentance video” and say that they created a chat where they corresponded with each other, and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they allegedly insulted Lukashenko several times in correspondence, and also wrote “wrong” comments. Another accusation is that the guys “had external connections” with Belarusian volunteers who are fighting for Ukraine. Apparently, this was the basis for initiating a criminal case under the article “promoting extremist activities.”

On May 10, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

IT specialist.

Ruslan is charged with financing extremist activities.

According to his Linkedin profile, Ruslan has been working for Netcracker for the last 6 years.

Previously, for some time he was a volunteer for the Protection of Birds of the Fatherland.

On June 23, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

Orthodontist. Detained for comments.

There is a hearing disability. There is a need for replacement hearing aids.

On June 20, 2023, an appeal hearing was held.

He was detained in early March, near the village of Voronovo, Grodno region, trying to leave Belarus for Lithuania. When police officers inspected his mobile phone, they found subscriptions to Telegram channels recognized by the authorities as "extremist". Initially, the court arrested Viktor Zolotarevsky under the article on dissemination of extremist materials (Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), but later he was charged under criminal articles for registering in the chatbot "Plan Peramoga" and a video sent to the Telegram channel Nexta. The video showed a conversation between Ukrainian soldiers and relatives in Gomel.

Zolotarevsky lived in Minsk and worked in the carriage depot of the Minsk branch of the Belarusian Railways, living in a hostel.

After his arrest he was fired.

There is a possibility that he was released on pardon.

An activist from Baranovichi, Igor has a third-degree disability due to a traffic accident 10 years ago that resulted in his leg being amputated. He was arrested on February 23, 2023, sentenced to 15 days in prison, and then transferred to a pretrial detention facility on criminal charges.

According to the investigation, between May 1, 2020, and May 23, 2022, Shumilov published four posts on Odnoklassniki containing satirical images, which the investigation considered insulting Lukashenko and government officials, as well as slandering Lukashenko. One of the images depicts Lukashenko and the aforementioned individuals as prisoners being held in a prison cell. At his trial, Igor fully admitted his guilt. He explained that the posts appeared on his page only after he "liked" them. He himself did not understand at the time that these images could be considered insulting.

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).