A citizen of Poland. As it turned out , Robert Tompala has lived in Belarus since the 90s, has a residence permit, and is a co-founder of OrionSvit LLC, a company that supplies confectionery products.
He was released in April 2025. Forcibly deported to Poland, banned from entering the Republic of Belarus for 8 years.
Trial outcome 17.04.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Margarita is a Belarusian opera singer. In 2020, she took part in Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's election campaign and dealt with issues of culture and national heritage in Pavel Latushko's team and in the People's Anti-Crisis Directorate.
During a tour in Lithuania in the fall of 2020, Margarita began to be persecuted in Belarus, after which she was forced to remain abroad.
In March 2024, a criminal case was opened against Margarita as part of a special proceeding, and already in June of the same year, she was convicted in absentia for participating in an “extremist group” - “Rudobelskaya show-off”, sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment and a fine of 800 basic units.
Trial outcome 24.06.2024
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 800 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
He was engaged in making wooden toys. He led a group on VKontakte, which included artisans.
In 2020, he began writing critical messages about the situation with the presidential elections in Belarus in a group with about 6 thousand participants. Renamed the group to “Belarus without rudeness.” After 2021, activity in the group decreased, but with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, Dmitry began to speak out against the war in it. The group was eventually recognized as an “extremist formation.”
On April 4, 2023, Dmitry was detained and sent to serve 15 days of arrest, which he had been sentenced to earlier. However, after his arrest he was not released.
On February 16, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 15.12.2023:
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
According to pro-government telegram channels, Ilya not only participated in the 2020 protests, but also "made extremist" tattoos, including those allegedly "inciting ethnic hatred against the backdrop of the Ukrainian conflict."
After serving an administrative arrest, on May 1, he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case for participating in protests
Trial outcome 13.07.2023:
unknown years of restriction of freedom without direction.
He was arrested in Minsk in October 2022, in his office, for allegedly posting comments in the chatbot of the "Belarus of the Brain" channel. He is reportedly in pretrial detention and facing two criminal charges.
Ivantsov is 38 years old. He studied at the Faculty of Biology at BSU, worked as a junior research fellow at the Academy of Sciences, and served as a medical representative for several pharmaceutical companies. Since 2013, he has headed the company "De Visu," which conducts marketing research in the pharmaceutical industry. Five years ago, Ivantsov entered graduate school at BGPU and worked at the university. Ivantsov is also a practicing psychologist and a proponent and popularizer of the Enneagram.
On December 13, 2025,he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 31.05.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to the case materials , on February 27, 2022, 36-year-old Dmitry, during the republican referendum, was at the polling station, allegedly in a state of intoxication, having received a ballot, he wrote an obscene inscription on it addressed to the head of state. Then, without putting the ballot in the ballot box, the accused presented it unfolded to members of the commission, thereby disrupting the work of the polling station.
An inscription was found on the ballot: “Lukashenko and Putin...”; “Lukashenko and Putin...” in a perverted form.
The prosecution representative requested two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, but taking into account the amnesty, this period should be reduced by one year.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the spring of 2024 , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome 10.04.2023:
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
The resident of Brest was accused of writing 2 comments under a video with Lukashenko on May 24, 2021, in the Facebook group “People’s Verdict”. One message said “sick person”, the second “schizophrenic”.
On May 16, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she was released in the winter of 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
On July 14, 2023, the appeal was considered. Chairman of the Judicial Board Maxim Lapko.
On August 7, 2024, in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Minsk, Judge Olga Lavrinovich will make a decision “On replacing the restriction of freedom without sending to an open correctional facility.”
Trial outcome 11.04.2023:
unknown years of restriction of freedom without direction
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