All persecuted

In 2020, Alexander and his wife took part in peaceful protests and supported Belarusian aid funds – “Country for Life” and BYSOL.

In August 2023, Alexander was summoned to the Financial Investigation Department for the first time, accused of transferring $20 to BYSOL. He paid $500 in "voluntary compensation" to the medical institution's account. In May 2024, he was detained by GUBOPiK officers for nine transfers totaling 90 euros to the "Country for Life" foundation made in 2021–2022. He paid 800 euros in "compensation" and was then forced to record a repentant video.

In June 2024, his wife was detained for participating in peaceful protests in 2020 and 2 months later was sentenced to house arrest. Alexander continued to be summoned for questioning, and on February 14, 2025, his criminal case under Articles 361-1 and 361-2 of the Criminal Code (financing extremist activity" and "participation in an extremist group") was transferred to the Minsk City Court. The family was forced to urgently evacuate from the Republic of Belarus.

Nikita, the younger brother of political prisoner Ihar Losik, was allegedly detained in April 2025 on charges of “assisting extremist activity” for allegedly forwarding several photographs of military equipment moving in 2022 to the Telegram channel “Belaruski Gayun”.

Nikita left Belarus before he began serving his sentence.

Writer and journalist Sasha Filipenko was forced to leave for Europe in 2020. Some of his publications have been translated into many languages and were on bestseller lists. The writer is engaged in promoting the Belarusian issue and has repeatedly appeared in Western media.

In November 2023, a search was conducted in the house of Sasha Filipenko's parents, his father, Alexander, was detained. Later, the Pervomaisky District Court of Minsk arrested him for 13 days.

In February 2024, Filipenko said that a criminal case had been opened against him, and that “two other cases were in the process of being opened.”

Alexander shared that the decision to open a criminal case against him states : "...through literature and other Internet resources, he insulted three professional groups... including patriotically minded citizens, which led to mass protests in Belarus...".

Oleg was summoned to the police department for protests back in 2021.

He "repented" at the police department, promised in writing never to participate in rallies again. Three days later a paper arrived that the administrative case had been closed because there was no evidence.

In November 2023, the man went to work in Poland. Since then, he has visited Belarus several times without problems. However, in April 2025, he was not allowed to leave the Republic of Belarus at the border; the migration service reported that he was a suspect in a criminal case for participating in the 2020 protests. After that, Oleg was evacuated from the Republic of Belarus by the Baysola service.

Deputy Chairman of the United Civil Party. The politician was detained on May 13, 2021. He was taken from work by police officers. Vladimir Shantsev was found guilty of allegedly participating in an unauthorized mass event near the Mogilev Regional Court on May 12, where the criminal case of Pavel Severinets and other activists was being tried. After 15 days of administrative arrest, he was released from the temporary detention facility.

At the end of February 2025, a criminal case was opened in absentia against Vladimir for participating in the program "Palitbomond" (broadcasts from 09/20/2023 and 10/08/2024) on the YouTube channel "6tv Bielarus", which was recognized as an "extremist formation" by the decision of the KGB Chairman on 11/29/2023.

It is known that in 2020, the man joined the Coordination Council for the Brest Region. On August 26, 2020, Andrei reported that security forces came to him. On the same day, he left Belarus with his wife.

On April 8, the KGB added Andrei to the "terrorist list."

On December 10, 2024, the Investigative Committee launched a special case against five members of Kalinovsky's regiment: Artem Bigel, Vyacheslav Granovskiy, Ignatiy Kireyev, Anastasia Makhomet, and Yan Melnikov. They are charged under articles on the creation of a criminal organization, organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, calls for causing harm to national security, participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state, and others.

They were found guilty under a number of articles of the Criminal Code, including "act of terrorism" and "organizing the activities of a terrorist organization." The defendants in the case were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years.

In addition, the Kalinovites were given fines ranging from 500 to 3,500 base units (from 21,000 to 147,000 rubles).

On December 10, 2024, the Investigative Committee launched a special case against five members of Kalinovsky's regiment: Artem Bigel, Vyacheslav Granovskiy, Ignatiy Kireyev, Anastasia Makhomet, and Yan Melnikov. They are charged under articles on the creation of a criminal organization, organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, calls for causing harm to national security, participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state, and others.

They were found guilty under a number of articles of the Criminal Code, including "act of terrorism" and "organizing the activities of a terrorist organization." The defendants in the case were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years.

In addition, the Kalinovites were given fines ranging from 500 to 3,500 base units (from 21,000 to 147,000 rubles).

On December 10, the Investigative Committee launched a special case against five members of Kalinovsky's regiment: Artem Bigel, Vyacheslav Granovskiy, Ignatiy Kireyev, Anastasia Makhomet, and Yan Melnikov. They are charged under articles on the creation of a criminal organization, organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, calls for causing harm to national security, participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state, and others.

They were found guilty under a number of articles of the Criminal Code, including "act of terrorism" and "organizing the activities of a terrorist organization." The defendants in the case were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years.

On December 10, 2024, the Investigative Committee launched a special case against five members of Kalinovsky's regiment: Artem Bigel, Vyacheslav Granovskiy, Ignatiy Kireyev, Anastasia Makhomet, and Yan Melnikov. They are charged under articles on the creation of a criminal organization, organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, calls for causing harm to national security, participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state, and others.

They were found guilty under a number of articles of the Criminal Code, including "act of terrorism" and "organizing the activities of a terrorist organization." The defendants in the case were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years.

On December 10, 2024, the Investigative Committee launched a special case against five members of Kalinovsky's regiment: Artem Bigel, Vyacheslav Granovskiy, Ignatiy Kireyev, Anastasia Makhomet, and Yan Melnikov. They are charged under articles on the creation of a criminal organization, organizing the activities of a terrorist organization, calls for causing harm to national security, participation in an armed conflict on the territory of a foreign state, and others.

They were found guilty under a number of articles of the Criminal Code, including "act of terrorism" and "organizing the activities of a terrorist organization." The defendants in the case were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years.

Daughter of political prisoner Elena Gnauk.

In January 2024, Alexandra was searched and detained for three days on the same day. A criminal case was opened for connections with an extremist group. She was forced to leave the Republic of Belarus with her children due to political persecution. After that, a second criminal case was opened against Alexandra. She is currently wanted.

He worked as a tinsmith at a private firm. When the 2020 election campaign began, he attended signature-collecting pickets, then marches. In the fall of 2020, Alexander was detained by KGB officers and sentenced to 15 days in jail. After that, he was repeatedly summoned for "interviews": "They took a polygraph test in connection with a case involving a broken window, conducted by some judge or investigator," he recalls .

In January 2025, officers from the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) visited him at work and took him to the Pervomaisky District Police Department. He was sentenced to 10 days in a temporary detention facility. A criminal case was then opened for participating in protests and he was transferred to a prison in Kolyadichi, where he spent two months before his trial.

A well-known Belarusian blogger, author of the channels "My Country is Belarus", "Lukashenko's Mustache". In June 2020, when the arrests of bloggers began, he left Belarus. In 2022, he stated that he was related to the press service of the Kalinovsky regiment in Ukraine, published photos in which he was with a weapon, in military uniform. Bespalov is currently participating in "Paspality Rushenni".

In August 2024, Igor Selikhanov's page on the Odnoklassniki social network was included in the republican list of extremist materials. According to the personal information posted on it, the man was born in 1975 in Orsha and graduated from Orsha Secondary School No. 6. Igor Selikhanov's last activity on his Odnoklassniki page was recorded in September 2022. Later, on other social networks, he reported that he lives in Warsaw.