All persecuted

Candidate of Historical Sciences, adjunct at the Historical Institute of the University of Wroclaw. Melnikov specialized in military history and the history of the period of Western Belarus being part of Poland (1921-1939). He published a dozen and a half books on the topic of Western Belarus. In 2020, he was awarded the L. Sapega Prize for the preservation of the historical heritage of Belarus.

It is known for certain that he was arrested and is being held in a pre-trial detention center, but there is no specificity either about the date of his arrest or about what Melnikov is accused of.

Melnikov’s last activity on Instagram dates back to January 21, 2024.

He has been working as a table tennis coach for more than thirty years. Yuri is the only international judge in this discipline in the Brest region. Previously, he was a member of the board of the Belarusian Table Tennis Federation.

Logodyuk is also known as one of the best trainers in Belarus in sports. He trains people with musculoskeletal problems. His students often win championships both in Belarus and in other countries. The man helped hundreds of people with disabilities live normal lives.

He is being tried for “promoting extremist activities.” This could be either a comment to the “wrong” resource or, for example, a transfer of money to a political prisoner.

Igor was detained on November 23, 2023. From a video on a pro-government channel published by security forces, it is known that he was a co-founder of a company for urban route transportation.

On camera, Igor says that he was detained for comments in Telegram channels about the Belarusian and Russian military.

Citizen of Lithuania, but native of Belarus. She worked as the head of the marketing service of the Lithuanian sanatorium "Belarus".

Ramanauskiene could have been detained last year when she was returning to Lithuania from Belarus, where she was visiting her relatives. The woman's relatives declined to comment to the Lithuanian publication. The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry reported that she is being provided with consular assistance. The trial in the Minsk City Court began on June 3.

She was found guilty under Art. 358-1 of the Criminal Code (undercover activity). The process took place behind closed doors, but, according to state media, she was accused of the fact that the woman “repeatedly provided information about guests arriving on vacation, including high-ranking Belarusian officials.” It is reported that she was allegedly recruited by Lithuanian intelligence services more than 10 years ago.

Sergei was convicted in court for insulting Lukashenko. On May 5, 2023, the case was heard by Judge Inna Sivets.

On June 4, 2024, another criminal case of Sergei was considered in the court of the Orsha district and Orsha. He was again accused of insulting Lukashenko . The case was heard by judge Yulia Vershinina .

The court found that Sergei Gnevko “being a person previously convicted of publicly insulting Lukashenko and having been taken to the special detention center of the Orsha District Department of Internal Affairs for committing an administrative offense under Article 19. 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (minor hooliganism), while intoxicated, in the presence of employees The police department and a special detention center employee publicly made a statement containing an obscene form of speech towards Alexander Lukashenko in connection with the exercise of his powers."

The court found Sergei Gnevko guilty under Part 2 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code , he was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of four years. Based on the totality of sentences, the court partially added to the imposed punishment the unserved sentence under the previous sentence and finally imposed a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 4 years 6 months.

The man did not admit guilt. In addition to the prison term, the judge decided to confiscate Makarenko’s mobile phone, which was used “as a means of committing a crime,” to the state’s benefit.

It is known that the appeal took place on May 7, 2024: it upheld the verdict.

On June 25, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

Judging by social networks, the man is 38 years old. It is known that he lived in Russia for some time, but more recently in Minsk. The man has a wife and child.

Kozelsky worked as an operator at ONT for a long time. For example, back in November 2022, he taught the Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to work with state media. Kozelsky’s last report was published in October 2023.

It is not known exactly when the operator was detained, but it happened more than six months ago.

The issue may be in the telegram comments he left. Anton used to comment a lot in various political groups, but he deleted the comments themselves. You can find them only indirectly, through the answers of other users and traces of men in groups.

Details of the verdict became known from prosecutor Pleskatsevich’s comment to Pinsk state TV (the name of the accused is not named, but he is the only one who was tried in Pinsk in 2024 under the article “unrest”). The prosecutor recounted the position of the accused: on August 9, 2020, he voted at the polling station, returned home and drank a lot (about a bottle of vodka), after which “out of interest he went to look at the protesters near the city executive committee building.” What exactly the man did next at the protests, for what reasons, he did not remember due to alcohol (in his words). But the video captured what the prosecution qualified as follows: “he took an active part [in the riots], namely, with his actions he supported the pogrom and attacked the police with other protesters.”

According to the prosecution , from August 10 to August 11, 2020, at that time, minors Yulia Sharanova, Nikita Voytyuk, Nikolay Nikityuk, as well as Vasily Alekseyuk, Gleb Klimovich, Vitaly Varfalameev, Alexander Tysevich, Maxim Sobolev, were on the roadway of Masherov Avenue, Cosmonauts Boulevards and Shevchenko, st. Soviet in Brest, “ they shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white canvases, grossly violating public order, deliberately impeding the movement of vehicles and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations.”

At the court hearing, everyone fully admitted their guilt.

It is also known that Maxim Sobolev, Gleb Klimovich, Yulia Sharanova were convicted, including on “narcotic” charges.

Maxim Sobolev under Part 1 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code was sentenced to two years of imprisonment. But since Maxim was already convicted under the “narcotic” part 4 of Art. 328 of the Criminal Code, by partial addition of the main punishments and the full addition of an additional punishment, 12 years in prison were sentenced to serve in a correctional colony under a high security regime with a fine of 3,200 rubles.

The man was accused of tearing a red and green flag from a store building in the town while drunk. He fully admitted his guilt.

The town resident had already been tried nine times before. In addition to imprisonment, Vladimir was prescribed compulsory treatment for alcoholism.