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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 .
On 09.02.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2024.
Detained for commenting in the chat of a Ukrainian blogger. It is known that Irina has been at home for the last year, as she was caring for her 83-year-old mother, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant liquidator, who has a disability of the second group. Saprygina’s mother cannot be left alone due to her health condition (she is blind), and she has no other relatives. However, Irina’s measure of restraint was not changed from detention to bail. It is also known that a policeman came to Saprygina’s mother and asked about her attitude towards Ukraine and Israel.
In addition to restriction of freedom, Irina was awarded 100 b.v. shrafa.
3.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
According to the prosecution materials , Ilya took an active part “in group actions, together with a crowd of people went out onto the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, together with others they clapped their hands, shouted loudly, whistled, shouted various slogans, demonstratively disdainful, openly refused to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”
Ilya has a higher education, participated in the Republican competition “Battle of Minds” among students of law classes.
The reason for the criminal case was a woman’s comment on Instagram with the following content: “The Belarusian leadership will not do anything against the RACISTS!!! They feed her!!!!” It was this phrase that was considered “inciting hostility.”
On March 22, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to the prosecution , the man repeatedly posted comments in an open telegram group in 2020. They saw a “negative assessment of a group of people united by activity” - the Belarusian army, members of election commissions, including its chairman, the police and riot police.
Ignatovich also “deliberately posted text messages on Telegram with calls for group actions that grossly violated public order, persuaded and encouraged them to participate in group actions, namely to unite and gather people, take them out onto the streets, disrupt the normal work of organizations and enterprises, government bodies, as well as law enforcement agencies.”
It is known that an appeal hearing took place on November 1, 2023, and the verdict came into force.
Ruslan was tried for a comment on a Telegram channel that allegedly encouraged participation in the Marches. Ruslan admitted his guilt. He said that he had indeed posted the comment under the influence of emotions, as he had read comments from other users on the channel. He also noted that he had once attended a protest.
It is known that Ruslan was detained on the border with Russia: the time and circumstances are unknown. Before his detention, he worked as a technician-mechanic.
According to human rights activists , he was released on November 7, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
A resident of Loyivshchyna was detained at the end of August 2023 for insulting police officers while filming a video and then posting the video with insults on the Internet.
After the verdict, she was released in the courtroom due to the recalculation of the time spent in the pre-trial detention center.
6 months imprisonment in a colony.
Maxim is currently undergoing compulsory military service in a military unit in Borisov.
According to the prosecution , Maxim, “acting jointly and in concert in a group of people from approximately 21:00 on August 9 to 1:30 on August 10, 2020, “stood on the roadway, obstructing the movement of public and other transport, clapped his hands, loudly shouted, whistled, shouted various slogans, while refusing to comply with the legitimate demands of government officials.”
In Zhlobin, according to the investigation, on the day of the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus on August 9, 2020, at about 10 p.m., an aggressive crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered in the area of the city square.
Information about the detention of the girl appeared in pro-government channels, "repentant" videos were recorded, where the detainees were accused of disloyal attitude towards Lukashenka and a negative attitude towards the Russian military.