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Olga was taken into custody on charges of donating to initiatives recognized as extremist.
Her trial began in July 2023.
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Vice-rector for educational and scientific-methodological work of the State Institute of Culture and Culture "GAZ-INSTITUTE". Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor.
Alexander was taken into custody on charges of donating to initiatives that are recognized as extremist.
On September 15, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force
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Igor Korney was detained on July 17 in Minsk and arrested for 10 days, he was in the detention center on Okrestina. His home was searched. After 10 days of arrest, he was not released and transferred to a pretrial detention center.
Igor worked for a long time as a journalist for Radio Svaboda, is known as an essayist, author of texts about the cultural and historical heritage of Belarus, and a travel blogger. Soon after his arrest, Igor's family left the country.
According to the indictment, Igor actively wrote "negative materials insulting the head of state, government officials, journalists and citizens who do not support the unconstitutional change of power. In addition, in his articles he gave a false picture of the economic, social, military and international situation of the Republic of Belarus."
Allegedly, from June 1 to July 14, 2023, he posted at least 54 information materials on BAJ resources. He was detained shortly thereafter.
On June 7, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
On December 11, 2024, the Shklov District Court heard Igor's case under Part 1 of Article 411 (malicious disobedience to the demands of the administration of a correctional facility). Judge Alexander Tarakanov found Igor guilty and sentenced him to another eight months of imprisonment.
As Radio Svaboda reports , the political prisoner was brought from the Mogilev pretrial detention center for several days to the KGB pretrial detention center in Minsk, from where he was returned to Mogilev: "... in the KGB pretrial detention center he went to see a doctor and they listened to his heart, confirmed that the rhythm was not very even, prescribed valerian. He also wrote that after the Shklov colony he lost 15 kg, now he is gaining some weight in Mogilev."
On June 21, 2025, Igor was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and was immediately taken to Lithuania.
According to journalists, the accusation is related to the fact that the Gomel resident transferred money to help Ukraine through the BYSOL fund. After the full-scale Russian invasion, he spoke out against the war on social networks and published reports on humanitarian assistance to residents of the Chernihiv region, they note.
Yuri Tashkinov is a Gomel entrepreneur, a resident of the city technopark. In 2018, he developed a mobile application for searching for providers of various services.
On October 27, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
In the summer and autumn of 2021, Dmitry twice marked “Class” on posts in the “ Stop Luka ” public in Odnoklassniki, due to which the publications became visible in the feed on the Mogilev resident’s page. The posts contained information about the activities of Alexander Lukashenko, which, according to the court , was slanderous and disgracing the personality of the head of the power vertical.
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Svetlana was convicted for her comments and participation in protests.
Released on July 20, 2024, after being pardoned.
2.5 years in prison
According to pro-government telegram channels, Vladislav and three other guys "beginning in 2020 administered four tik-tok accounts and two telegram channels. These resources published information aimed at organizing and preparing mass riots, resisting law enforcement officers in order to encroach on independence, territorial integrity, the foundations of the constitutional order of the Republic of Belarus... The guys united in a telegram group, which was recognized as an extremist formation in early November." They allegedly "should have found executors to destroy infrastructure and organize attacks on law enforcement officers."
According to pro-government telegram channels, Alexander and three other guys "beginning in 2020 administered four tik-tok accounts and two telegram channels. These resources published information aimed at organizing and preparing mass riots, resisting law enforcement officers in order to encroach on independence, territorial integrity, the foundations of the constitutional order of the Republic of Belarus... The guys united in a telegram group, which was recognized as an extremist formation in early November." They allegedly "should have found executors to destroy infrastructure and organize attacks on law enforcement officers."
Of the relatives, Alexander has only a sister.
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A plastics granulation machine operator at the Grodno Azot branch of the Khimvolokno enterprise. He was detained by GUBOPiK officers . On camera, the man said that his detention was related to his registration in the Peramoga plan chat bot, where he showed his military registration specialty (commander of the artillery reconnaissance unit, senior sergeant). He noted that he had not carried out any sabotage missions .
Andrey is a father of many children and is raising his daughters alone.
He was pardoned.
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Inhabitant of Baranovichi. He was arrested in mid-February 2023. The man was charged with the fact that on March 8, 2021 on Instagram he posted a story “with the face of Lukashenka in a female guise” and the text: “Since March 8, daragia of a woman. The cruelest health and only pleasant ashchushcheny. For this, they were accused of publicly insulting Lukashenka.
Vladislav was also accused of sending videos and texts to the Nexta editorial chatbot several times (for example, videos of Russian military aircraft and trains with Russian military). This was qualified as "other assistance to extremist activity" under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code.
On September 05, 2023, the appeal court hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
The political prisoner was accused of filming the movement of Belarusian military equipment on his phone on March 18, 2022 in the Ivatsevichi region and sending the video to one of the telegram groups recognized as “extremist” materials. Andrei fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions.
The man’s mobile phone was seized as a “means of committing a crime.”
According to the case materials , in February 2022, she posted a comment that "insulted and humiliated the honor and dignity" of Podvoisky, Melnik, and Kozlov and "was aimed at undermining the authority of government officials." After the publication of a video on the CyberSlivy Telegram channel with a leaked telephone conversation between Podvoisky, Melnik, and Kozlov from September 2020, which became evidence that the police were telling judges what decisions to make for participants in peaceful protests. More than two dozen people left comments under it, including Ekaterina Lev. Ekaterina was detained a year later - on February 1, 2023.
Released on August 20, 2024, after being pardoned.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
On August 4, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.