Angela was arrested in October 2024 in connection with the "yard chats" case.
On October 29, 2024, the KGB recognized the courtyard coalition "Orden", which includes the courtyard chats "Zlye Kogtiki", "Sukharevo", "Senica2.0", "Solidarity", "Volnyya Vauki", "Navagrudskiya Partisans", "VILIYA", "Skromnye Matryoshka", and "Sosedi", as an "extremist formation".
According to the agency, those involved in these initiatives include Irina Yakovleva, Natalia Doronina, Diana Gavrilova, Ukrainian citizen Ivan Omelyan, Olga Nekhaychik, Konstantin Kirilenko, Yelizaveta Plitnik, Natalia Guzhova, Irina Smolyarova, Stanislav Botvin, and Natalia Lantukh. A few days later, mass arrests in this case took place across Belarus.
Trial outcome 19.03.2026
8 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 1000 basic values fine.
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3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
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6 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 100 basic values fine.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
He was arrested in December 2025, three months after returning to Belarus. He is charged under Part 2 of Article 361-3 of the Criminal Code for two small monetary transfers for humanitarian aid to Belarusian volunteers defending Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The donations were reportedly made using cryptocurrency.
Trial outcome date unknown
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 500 basic values fine.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Belarusian translator, literary scholar, and publisher. One of the most renowned popularizers of translated world literature.
Dmitry, the son of literary critic Georgy Kolos and brother of film director and teacher Vladimir Kolos, made a name for himself in the 1980s with his translations from French into Belarusian. Since the 1990s, Kolos has been involved in publishing. The Zmitser Kolas Publishing House is known for publishing world poetry, prose, and plays in the best Belarusian translations.
Dmitry was previously detained by the KGB in early March 2023. However, he was released after 10 days in custody, which he spent in a KGB pretrial detention facility. He has not been charged.
In February 2026, Dmitry was arrested again, amid mass arrests of book publishers and distributors. Dmitry spent 14 days in the Okrestina detention center, after which he was never released. On March 3, 2026, a coalition of print publishers, including the Kamunikat.org Foundation, Lohvinau Publishing House, and Andrei Yanushkevich Publishing, was added to the Ministry of Internal Affairs' updated list of "extremist groups." Yaroslav Ivanyuk, Dmitry Kolos , Igor Logvinov, Vaclav Bogdanovich, Andrei Yanushkevich, and Alexander Evdakha were named in connection with the group. The publishers' websites and social media accounts were also added.
Propagandists reported the arrest of "BYSOL fund couriers." These men include Dmitry Kovalev , Sergei Kardash, and Alexei Kubrakov, who are currently in pretrial detention. They are said to have been delivering money to the families of political prisoners.
The propagandists also featured women in their film who allegedly served as "couriers" for Bayhelp and DissidentBY. Their status is unknown.
Trial outcome 10.11.2025
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 17.02.2026
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Alexey, a Russian citizen, worked at the Gomel Chemical Plant before his arrest. He was detained in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "assistance to extremist activity" after Belarusian security forces gained access to the chats of a bot belonging to the Belarusian Gayun monitoring project, where people submitted information about Russian troop movements.
In the winter of 2025, Alexei was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony, as well as to pay a large fine.
Alexey has type 1 diabetes and is insulin-dependent. Furthermore, he was assigned a lifelong disability status as a child.
Trial outcome 01.12.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal 25.02.2026
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Former head of Intex-Press. Intex-Press was the largest and most successful independent regional media outlet in Belarus, but the authorities crushed it in 2021.
After the authorities liquidated the largest regional publication, Intex-Press, in 2023, Yanukevich and Pokolenko created the regional news portal bar24.by. In December 2024, bar24.by's editorial office and employees' apartments were searched, and some employees were detained.
Yanukevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison and a fine of 135,000 rubles (approximately 40,000 euros), while Pokolenko was sentenced to 12 years in prison and a fine of 45,000 rubles (approximately 13,000 euros). According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ ), "there is information about a huge total fine of approximately 200,000 rubles (approximately 60,000 euros)."
11 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Volodymyr Yanukevich, 65, served as director and editor-in-chief of the independent regional newspaper Intex-Press. Andriy Pokolenko, 44, served as deputy development director for the same media outlet. After the newspaper's closure, they created the news website BAR24. The website went down in January 2025.
Vladimir Yanukovych has previously been persecuted . He was twice tried and fined under the Code of Administrative Offenses for publishing an interview with Tikhanovskaya, and in February 2023, security forces raided the premises of Intex-Press Publishing House.
In addition to the imprisonment and a large fine, as reported by the Belarusian Association of Journalists, “there is information about a huge total fine of approximately 200,000 rubles (approximately 60,000 euros).”
Employees of the Baranovichi media outlet BAR24 were detained in December 2024. Law enforcement officers searched their homes and the city portal's editorial office, seizing equipment. Several were released, while the rest faced criminal charges.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Presumably convicted in the "skinhead case" in Mozyr. According to pro-government sources, the investigation lasted 12 months. During this time, 34 criminal cases were opened under various articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. Eight people were detained, seven of whom were under 18 at the time of the crimes.
According to the court, Vyacheslav was found guilty of "creating an extremist group, leading such a group; rehabilitating Nazism; inciting racial, national, religious or social hatred and discord; publicly insulting the President of Belarus; preparing and committing malicious hooliganism."
Trial outcome date unknown
5 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine.
Appeal 20.02.2026
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Since 2000, Dmitry has worked as a systems administrator at Belarusian Railways. His job involved configuring network equipment.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 11.02.2026
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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