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Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~799 days
folder Categories of cases: Registration as a volunteer
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 15.03.1991
Was in: IK-15IK №15, 212013, Mogilev, p/o Veyno, Slavgorodskoye shosse 183
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According to pro-government channels, he was detained for participating in protests in 2020 and for registering as a volunteer in Ukraine.
Programmer. Maxim was initially sentenced to 1.5 years in prison. After that, he independently wrote an appeal, where he described in detail everything that was illegal in his case and in court. After that, his sentence was increased to 2.5 years.

Trial outcome 09.11.2022
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 31.01.2023
unknown.
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folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 27.12.1991
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According to pro-government channels, he was detained for comments in telegrams.

Trial outcome 10.12.2024
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
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Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 18.09.1964
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Leonid Alexeyevich Shamov
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In custody: 833 days
Hometown: Navapolatsk
Date of birth: 14.06.2001
Was in: IK-2IK №2, 213800, Bobruysk, ul. Sikorskogo, 1
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According to the case materials , on August 10 and 11, 2020, Leonid “intentionally and unlawfully” collected and disseminated information intended for training and other preparation of persons to participate in mass riots, accompanied by violence against individuals, pogroms, arson, destruction of property and armed resistance to government officials .

The prosecution was confident that he disseminated the collected information through telegram chats so that residents of Novopolotsk and nearby settlements could become familiar with it.

Before the verdict, Shamov was in custody.

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:

2.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.

Alexander Vladimirovich Gurlay
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Hometown: Borisov
Date of birth: 10.04.1986
Number of children: 2 children
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According to pro-government channels, he was detained for sending a video with Russian invaders to a telegram channel bot.

Alexander had his own business (Internet store). At home, Alexander was left waiting for his pregnant wife, daughter and son.

Trial outcome:

unknown

Lyudmila Sergeevna Romanovich
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In custody: 490 days
Hometown: Lasick
Date of birth: 22.03.1965
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Activist of the «Belarusian People's Front» party.

Lyudmila has been charged because of a letter she sent in the investigative committee. In the letter, the woman spoke out against the war in Ukraine and the policy of A. Lukashenko.

On August 7, 2023, she was released after the expiration of her sentence.

Trial outcome 20.06.2022:

1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

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In custody: 101 day
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 13.04.1984
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Convicted for participating in protests in August 2020.

Trial outcome:

3 years of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution

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Date of birth: 20.02.1985
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Convicted under two articles of the administrative code: 24.23 part 1 (50 b.v.) and 24.3 (50 b.v.).
According to the investigation, being in a public place - at the carriageway next to house No. 133 on Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk, in the presence of other persons, publicly insulted the President of the Republic of Belarus, showing an insulting gesture in his direction, which, on the basis of accepted in society rules is indecent.

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Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 03.02.1990
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Former political prisoners
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In custody: 1008 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests Zhlobin 2020
Hometown: Zhlobin
Date of birth: 13.04.1979
Was in: IK-9IK-9, Gorki, 213410, ul. Dobroliubova, 16
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Convicted for protest actions.

According to human rights activists , he was released on March 5, 2025.

Trial outcome 01.04.2022
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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Hometown: Staraya Rudnya
Date of birth: 02.02.1965
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Convicted for protests.

According to human rights activists, he was released.

Trial outcome 01.04.2022
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Dashkevich
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In custody: ~1268 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Kushnery
Date of birth: 20.07.1981
Number of children: 4 children
Was in: IK-14IK-14, 222125, Minsk region, s.n.p. Novosady, ul. Mira 1A
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Dmitry Dashkevich is one of the most famous political figures in Belarus. He has been involved in public activities since 2001. He was the leader of the "Young Front" and served long prison terms several times for political activities in Belarus. Dashkevich is also one of the organizers of the "Night of Shot Poets" and "Defense of Kurapaty" campaigns.

After the 2020 elections, Dashkevich remained, perhaps, the only public opposition politician who remained in Belarus.

He was detained on March 23, 2022, sentenced to 15 days under an administrative article, during which time a criminal case was opened against Dmitry and after 15 days he was left in custody.

In July 2023, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Dmitry for “malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of the correctional institution” (Article 411 of the Criminal Code). On October 18, Judge Tatyana Derevyanko sentenced Dmitry to another year in a maximum-security penal colony.

In January 2024, the political prisoner was transferred again to IK No. 14. In the colony, he was placed in a punishment cell, where it is terribly cold. During the night, Dmitry has to get up to eight times to do exercises and somehow warm up. For this, they write reports about him not lying down after lights out.

At the end of May 2024, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Dmitry.

Dmitry was charged with "people's" article 342 of the Criminal Code (active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order), as well as part 1 of article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration) and was again sentenced to a new term.

On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries . Among those released is Dmitry Dashkevich.

Trial outcome 14.07.2022
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Trial outcome 19.10.2023
1 year of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions.
Appeal 19.12.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Trial outcome 27.09.2024
1 year 3 months of imprisonment in colony in strict regime conditions.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: 120 days
folder Categories of cases: Rail guerrillas
Hometown: Babruysk
Date of birth: 28.01.1994
Was in: Turma №4Turma №4, Mogilev, Krupskaya 99A, 212011
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Young people were detained due to sabotage on the railway tracks . Offering no resistance, they were purposefully shot in the knee joints by SOBR officers.

On July 28, 2022, he was released on bail.

Yevgeny Minkevich, like Vladimir Avramtsev, graduated from the Olympic reserve school - he studied at the Shamyakin Moscow State Pedagogical University at the Faculty of Physical Education. He worked as an orderly in the Bobruisk ambulance, as well as a taxi driver in various services.

Trial outcome:

1.5 years in prison.
On the basis of the Law of the Republic of Belarus “On amnesty in connection with the Day of National Unity”, Yevgeniy was partially released from punishment for a period of one year.

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Hometown: Gomel
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Alexander is 56 years old. A criminal case was opened against him for publicly insulting the head of the Homel riot police, Mikhail Domarnatsky. We are talking about comments in the telegram channel. After the first court session in the summer of 2021, the man disappeared and was put on the wanted list.

Alla Fedorovna Neumoeva
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Hometown: Mogilev
Date of birth: 23.04.1940
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Pensioner, 81 years old, with a disability of the 2nd group. Alla argued with the public utilities when she threw out the garbage. It was recorded and posted on Tiktok. From the case materials: "Neumoyeva Alla Fedorovna, having the intent to commit a crime against the order of government, in April 2021 publicly in the daytime, ... in the presence of other persons, publicly and deliberately expressed orally, having a negative assessment of Lukashenka and in an abusive form of phrase who offended the honor and dignity ... "

Trial outcome:

Fine 30 base units.

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