All persecuted

Alexander has a business in the construction industry.

Sergei Timoshenko fought in Afghanistan from 1986 to 1988. He served in the 2nd Airborne Assault Outpost of the Kerki Airborne Assault Maneuverable Group, commanding the combat group.

Sergei, judging by his social media posts, supports Ukraine in its war against Russia. This appears to be the reason for the charges. He suddenly disappeared from all social media at the end of 2024, was arrested, and placed in pretrial detention.

A construction worker by training, he graduated from College No. 61 in Baranovichi and went to Russia to work. Upon returning to Belarus, he became a member of the "For Freedom" Movement.

In 2020, he was sentenced to 10 days in jail, despite asking the judge to fine him. In 2025, he was sentenced to prison for participating in the 2020 protests.

Before his arrest, Anatoly was an individual entrepreneur and an active participant in the entrepreneurial movement. He is also known as an environmental activist during the construction and launch of the Svetlogorsk bleached cellulose plant, when numerous emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere occurred. Recently, he has been working in one of the enterprises in the field of car service.

He was detained in April 2025 under Part 2 of Article 367 (slander against Lukashenko) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. On April 25, 2025, he was transferred to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 3.

He was previously detained on February 14, 2023. He was also detained in 2020. Then in November, he was detained after a memorial event in memory of Roman Bondarenko, who was killed in Minsk. Anatoly was fined 40 b.v. Even earlier, Zmitrovich was brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 23.34 (violation of the procedure for holding mass events). Then he received a fine of 25 b.v.

Oleg Loiko, an evangelical pastor from the Khoyniki district, is accused of transmitting information about the movement of Russian military equipment through Belarus.

48-year-old Oleg Loiko is the pastor of an evangelical Christian church in the village of Nebytov in the Khoyniki District. Last December, he was arrested for 10 days for "spreading extremism."

The pastor spent many years rehabilitating people with drug addictions through the "Return" mission. Thanks to his work, hundreds of people have returned to normal lives. He has previously received numerous glowing reviews from state media.

A church minister was sentenced to three and a half years in a maximum-security prison for providing information about the movement of Russian military equipment to the Belarusian Gayun monitoring project. The trial was held behind closed doors.

Pastor Oleg does not admit that he committed crimes and considers his conscience clear before God.

He was re-sentenced in October 2025.

A 40-year-old programmer from Mogilev. In 2013, he graduated from the Belarusian-Russian University, studying to be an engineer. He specializes in working with the Magento platform, which is used to create online stores and organize online trading. He has a young daughter and a wife.

Igor Goltsov transferred about $50 to the Zerkalo YouTube channel via Patreon. This happened in 2023.

Pavel Vabishchevich and Andrei Zinenko, as stated in the ONT propaganda film, were detained on the night of August 26-27, 2023, on the railway in the Stolbtsy district near the oil depot and the Sinyava stopping point.

A propaganda film in the fall of 2023 claimed that they were detained for attempting to plant an explosive device on a railway in the Stolbtsy district, "which was supposed to go off on command from an SBU supervisor." The propagandists said that Vabishchevich came to the attention of the security forces when an informant reported him to a KGB chatbot, saying that he was photographing railway tracks and trains at the Orsha train station.

A famous basketball referee, he was arrested for creating a basketball chat.

He was detained in January 2024 when he was returning to Belarus. He is currently in pretrial detention. He is accused of "insulting Lukashenko" and "creating an extremist group" under Articles 361-1 and 368 of the Criminal Code.

Syritsa had previously believed that coming to Belarus was not associated with major risks. His wife was also detained at the border (she spent a day in jail). And the chat participants were summoned for questioning.

Alexander Syritsa has been one of the best basketball referees in Belarus for many years. A FIBA referee since 2005. In 2019, together with his colleagues, Syritsa filed a lawsuit against the basketball federation, lost and was blacklisted. He lived in Australia, did business, and often visited Ukraine.

On January 16, the KGB recognized the "Fund of Belarus Friend LTD" as an "extremist organization" - at that time it was reported that Belarusian citizen Alexander Syritsa was related to it.

At the end of May 2024, state media reported the detention of two Belarusian citizens at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border: one of them was on the international wanted list and was attempting to illegally cross the border into Lithuania, the other was a driver.

In a "confession video," Alexander admitted that in 2021 he left comments "approving" of the actions of Andrei Zeltser, who died in a shootout with KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk. Alexander is known to have lived in the United States for a long time.

In February 2025, he was convicted on four criminal charges, but the outcome of the sentence is still unknown. He is also reported to have serious health problems.

Evgeniy is a former IT manager from Mogilev. After the 2006 elections and several years of political activism, he was expelled from the history department of Mogilev University. He graduated from the history department in Poznan and worked as a manager at an IT company, supplying dairy products. In 2013, Evgeniy returned to Belarus, immediately got married, and then went to work. While he had previously focused primarily on public and academic activities (in the student ethnographic society and the oral history archive), he has now gone into business.

And since the beginning of 2017, he has taken on a new occupation: at the request of clients, he has recorded interviews with their village grandparents and edited documentaries.

He is accused of aiding extremist activity.

Evgeniya has a wife and two small children waiting for her at home.

On February 15, 2024, a "counter-terrorist operation" regime was introduced in the Lelchitsy district of the Gomel region on the border with Ukraine. The population was asked to "remain calm and obey the demands of law enforcement officers." The KGB claims to have detained members of a "sabotage and reconnaissance group" that included citizens of Ukraine and Belarus. Among those detained were Ukrainian citizens, father and son Sergei and Pavel Kabarchuks. Sergei Kabarchuks, born in 1963, are from the Kovel district of the Volyn region. The father and son were detained in February 2024 in the Lelchitsy district. "Explosive devices and other means of destruction" were found on them. The KGB "established" that the explosive devices were intended for terrorist attacks in Belarus and Russia, and the "infiltration of the group" was organized by the Security Service of Ukraine.

At the same time, Brest resident Vitaly Vlasyuk, born in 1970, was also detained. He was accused of smuggling (Part 3 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code).

He was tortured in the KGB pretrial detention center. After his arrest, he was kept in the KGB pretrial detention center for several days without food.

Convicted for participating in a protest from August 10 to 11, 2024 in the city of Bereza.