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Pro-government telegram channels write that the detainee “leaked the data of former colleagues into extremist telegram channels and left offensive comments about top officials of the Republic of Belarus in such channels, registered in the “victory” plan and wanted to go to fight on the side of Ukraine.”
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Head of the Laboratory of Genetic Biotechnologies of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, Candidate of Biological Sciences. He has 20 years of work experience, previously he was a member of the governing body of the primary organization of the Free Trade Union of Belarus in the RSPC DOGI. At first, Alexander was placed in a temporary detention center on Akrestsina Street as part of a criminal case. Six days later, he was released under the guarantee of his colleagues, since Alexander is a valuable specialist. He was accused of participating in two Sunday Marches in Minsk - on August 23 and 30, 2020. Prior to the trial, Meleshko was at large.
3 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
Convicted of insulting a government official .
On January 24, 2023, a trial to commute Sergei's sentence was held in the Kamenets District Court. Judge Oksana Shkel rejected the Correctional Institution's motion to transfer him to a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2025.
According to the investigation, Alexander Pugach from October 2020 to March 2022 insulted the head of state, as well as government officials, including the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus, in connection with the performance of their official duties in Telegram.
Judge Ruslan Tsaruk appointed, in addition to imprisonment, compensation for moral damage in the amount of 10 000 BYN and 3 200 BYN.
Convicted for participating in protests. It is known that Elena was detained in June, but released on bail, she was at large until the trial.
3.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
unknown years of restriction of freedom
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In early September, the Telegram channel of the volunteer initiative "Lists of Detainees" published information about the detention of an entire family : Yan, Anastasia and Ales Papkovich. Anastasia was released. And Yan and Ales were transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1. During the detention, Ales' phone and equipment were taken away. As a result, one photo from the 2020 march was found. For it, the guy was given 2 years in prison.
Ales has been interested in music since childhood, - says the brother of the political prisoner. - He knows many Belarusian performers, played with some of them. For example, he performed with cover bands in Minsk clubs, performed with the group "D-Major" as a violinist. The last two years before his arrest were especially creative for Ales - he wrote several lyrics for songs, music for them, made recordings. Ales sings in Belarusian.
10.06.2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
In early September, the Telegram channel of the volunteer initiative "Lists of Detainees" published information about the detention of an entire family: Yan, Anastasia, and Ales Papkovich.
Special forces stormed Yan's apartment. During the arrest, the officers fired a shot from an automatic weapon and wounded the dog, which had started barking at them.
Yan spent a month in a KGB pretrial detention center, where he was tortured and unable to walk. BT reports portrayed Yan as a mercenary planning to go to Ukraine. It is known that Yan pleaded not guilty at his trial. One of the witnesses stated that "they pressured him, and he signed whatever they told him." As evidence of Yan's guilt, the investigation presented his private correspondence with his wife, as well as with friends who, according to investigators, serve in Kalinovsky's regiment in Ukraine.
Yan worked as a cash collector at Belgazprombank.
In March 2024 and April 2025, Yana was convicted twice under the article “malicious disobedience to the legal demands of the colony administration,” and in total, another year of imprisonment was added to her existing sentence.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and taken to Ukraine.
IP. Detained for subscribing to "extremist telegram channels and comments on social networks.
Chief agronomist of the Malorita region. Detained for subscribing to "extremist" telegram channels and registering in the "Peramog plan" bot.
Stepan is 23 years old, he is a resident of Novolukoml. He was accused of having made extremist inscriptions on the pipeline of the Lukoml power station in March of this year, and two months later painted images of white-red-white and blue-yellow flags on the surface of an artillery piece installed on the territory of a military burial in the village of Starie Lavki of the Chashniki district.
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