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Anatoly, an engineer and mountain climber, was arrested on November 11, 2021, and has been repeatedly subjected to administrative arrest. Anatoly became famous after he made a statement in a video released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in which he expressed his love for the colors white and red.
He was released in the winter of 2022, having fully served his sentence.
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Tatyana was detained on November 15, 2021, in the Minsk City Court building while attempting to attend the first trial of political prisoner Olga Zolotareva. She is known to have suffered abuse. Tatyana was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest three times in a row (a total of 45 days as of December 30, 2021).
The day before Tatyana's release, her father died, but she wasn't even allowed to attend the funeral. On December 31, a judge in the Frunzensky District ordered her release and postponed the hearing until January 3, 2022. From the police station, Tatyana went straight to her father's funeral.
On January 3, 2022, Tatyana was already safely outside of Belarus, while the court sentenced her to another 15 days in absentia.
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He was detained on December 10 and sentenced to administrative arrest. But after his release, he was not released. It is known that the security forces beat him.
After his arrest, a "repentant video" appeared on pro-government channels, in which he said that he allegedly passed on information related to his professional activities to third parties. But the company then stated that Nikolai did not have access to client data.
The trial was held behind closed doors, but it became known that Nikolai Bredelev was found not guilty under Part 2 of Article 424 of the Criminal Code (Abuse of power or official authority) and acquitted due to lack of evidence of participation in the commission of a crime.
He was accused of providing funds to deliberately support the activities of an extremist group (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code) — blogger Anton Motolko. Motolko denied this accusation.
He is expected to be released in June 2025.
Alexander was found guilty in December 2021 in a criminal case opened under the articles "violence or threat of violence against a law enforcement officer" and "insulting a government official" for a comment left in the "Soligorsk for Life Chat" chat room addressed to police lieutenant colonels Sergei Ivanovich Soloviev and Oleg Petrovich Shalokha.
Charges were brought under three articles: 368, 130 and 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Sentenced January 18, 2022.
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 Svyatoslav Shubich.
| 14.05.2022 | Since April 27, 2022, he has been in IK 17, Shklov |
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Pavel was detained in March 2021 by traffic police on a highway near Minsk, where leaflets, newspapers and stickers were found in his car; according to the Investigative Committee, "thousands of copies of protest newspapers, stickers with unregistered symbols and leaflets" were seized. The department immediately after his detention called him the administrator of the Telegram channel "Atolino".
At the time of his arrest, Pavel worked for a private advertising company and was previously a video engineer on television. In 2020, he was part of the campaign staff of presidential candidate Viktor Babariko.
In January 2022, he was convicted on charges of producing and distributing protest printed materials (leaflets, stickers, newspapers), as well as participating in Sunday marches that took place in Minsk in August–September 2020.
According to human rights activists, he was released in October 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
Alexander, a homeless man from Minsk, was arrested about ten times in 2021 for "unauthorized picketing." The charges were for posters, which typically depicted the BSSR flag and contained requests for assistance. In one instance, he was detained for a white-red-white poster with the text: "I want to thank my children, I want to thank my youth, and I want to be the first to love. I want to forget the camp and live the People's Republic of Belarus."
According to reports, he spent at least 130 days of administrative arrest at Okrestina. Most often, Alexander was detained near the Kamennaya Gorka metro station, where he spent time holding laminated signs and collecting funds for his living. He could sometimes be seen with small animals. In total, he is known to have spent approximately 22 years in prison.
On December 1, 2021, he was detained in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "repeated violation of the procedure for holding mass events" and placed in pretrial detention.
In March 2022, Alexander was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in September 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Vladimir was arrested in December 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and placed in pretrial detention.
In May 2022, he was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
According to human rights activists, he was released in September 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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A tester at EPAM, has two minor children. She was detained on December 16, 2021, as part of a criminal case on group actions that grossly violate public order. Her home was searched. Transferred to a pretrial detention center.
Ivan was found guilty in December 2021 of publicly insulting Lukashenko on social media and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he was released in December 2022, having fully served his sentence.
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Alexander was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
On October 17, 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting hatred or discord" and "insulting a government official," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
He was released on October 19, 2022, having fully served his sentence.
Valentin was found guilty of posting an image on a banned Telegram channel in June 2020, along with a caption that the state prosecutor claimed was offensive toward Lukashenko. During the trial, it emerged that a linguistic expert had assessed the caption inconsistently and found it not to be directly offensive to Lukashenko's honor and dignity. Despite this, Valentin was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Alexander was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "Desecration of state symbols." In December of that year, he was found guilty of tearing down a flag on a street in Gomel and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in June 2022, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.
Maxim was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "Desecration of state symbols." In December of that year, he was found guilty of tearing down a flag on a street in Gomel and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
He was released in June 2022, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.
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A citizen of Russia, has lived in Belarus since the age of 6, an individual entrepreneur.
He is accused of setting fire to the car of the head of the Department of Corrections and puncturing tires in 39 trolleybuses in Gomel.
He was detained on November 5, 2021. He was in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee in Minsk. On December 13, 2021, he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-3.
I was an observer at the last presidential election. Engaged in civic activism. In 2019, he opposed the development. Does not drink, does not smoke, has a heightened sense of justice, as his relatives say. Two juvenile children remained at large.
On January 3, 2022, Andrei was tried again, already under four criminal articles, including for promoting extremist activities and inciting other social hostility. The verdict was announced behind closed doors, so the details of the case and the position of the political prisoner are unknown. As a result, he was added to 15 years of imprisonment for another year and eight months in a penal colony of strict regime. In addition, the political prisoner received a penalty of 32 000 BYN.