Dina Valentinovna Kuchuk

Elena Toporkova is 54 years old. She graduated from the Belarusian State Polytechnical Academy (now BNTU).

Elena was likely detained during a raid on those in solidarity with political prisoners that took place at the end of January 2024.

People caught in the raid on those in solidarity with political prisoners, which took place from January 23 to 24, say that the number of those who were subject to criminal cases may be much higher than human rights activists know. Completely non-public people simply made transfers or sent parcels to political prisoners from their own funds.

On July 24, the Ministry of Internal Affairs recognized the "Propovednik" project as an "extremist group." According to the department, 52-year-old Vladimir Shpak, who was detained in May 2024, is involved in it.

Pro-government Telegram channels reported that the man "incited national and social hatred, called for violence, advocated radicalization and terrorism." It was claimed that a number of criminal cases had been opened against the detainee - he was threatened with 10 years in prison.

Individual entrepreneur Elena was detained and accused of "inciting ethnic hatred" and "cynical attitude towards the victims of the terrorist attack." At the end of March, she wrote in one of the Telegram channels: "In the Russian Federation, they only see the victims in Crocus City, and they do not see the victims of the Russian bombing of Ukraine."

Her case was mentioned by Gomel prosecutor Vladislav Zhurakovsky, who stated that a criminal case had been opened against her "under the extremism article" for "insulting the Russian people" on "opposition Ukrainian Internet resources." She was also convicted under the article "assistance to extremist activity."

It also became known that Elena's health deteriorated in the pretrial detention center. She was assigned "bed rest," which allows her to lie on the bed for several hours a day. She often visited doctors, and sometimes she was also prescribed injections.

Maxim graduated from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics with a degree in network engineering. He began his career at the Minsk Electromechanical Plant, then worked as a programmer at IBA and Netland. In 2022, he took the position of system architect at A1.

He was detained and convicted in August 2024 under the articles “financing extremist activity” and “financing or other material support for war.”

The reason for the detention of Gomel resident Vilen Turgunov was comments on the Internet, including negative ones towards the police.

Vilen Turgunov is 55 years old. His father is from Uzbekistan, his mother is Belarusian. Vilen graduated from the university in Russian Novozybkov (Bryansk region) with a degree in jurisprudence. Vilen Turgunov worked at the Zheleznodorozhny District Department of Internal Affairs of the regional center. There were serious problems there. Back in 2001, he received a reprimand for “irresponsible attitude to service,” in 2002 he had “incomplete official inconsistency,” and in 2004 he received a reprimand for “gross violation of official discipline, violation of an order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.”

Later, the former policeman worked at a construction and installation trust in Gomel.

The detainee actively maintained pages on various social networks, where he spoke about political and social events. For his support of Ukraine, other netizens called him a “Banderite.”

Vilen Turgunov’s relative, Igor Kazubov, is also serving a sentence.

Ilya has been working for the IT company iTechArt for over twelve years. This is a large company with over one and a half thousand employees. Ilya is a Senior software engineer. Gumbar has two well-known hobbies - sports tourism and trail running. Trail running is running long distances across rough terrain, often impassable forests or high mountains (within the route, the altitude differences can reach thousands of meters). He ranks second in Belarus among men in this discipline according to the UTMB rating.

On September 3, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

A resident of Bobruisk was detained on February 26, 2024, the day after returning from Poland.

First, he was convicted under administrative article 19.11 (distribution of extremist materials), and then a criminal case was opened under article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (creation of an extremist group). Maxim is allegedly considered involved in the creation of the extremist group “Bobruisk 375”.

Egor Volkov is 55 years old. He is a Minsk resident, studied at school No. 50. Then he graduated from the Minsk Radiotechnical Institute (now the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics).

Since the 1990s, Volkov has been involved in business. It is known that his area is cargo transportation, including liquid cargo. The man's business is quite large, his company's fleet of vehicles is up to a hundred trucks.

According to pro-government media, Yegor was tried for donations to the Kalinovsky Regiment from 2022 to 2023 in cryptocurrency in the amount of 11,100 USD, as well as for photos from the protests.

On July 23, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

Alexander worked as an engineer at one of the city's enterprises. He was convicted behind closed doors in the Gomel Regional Court.

On 02.08.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

Most likely he was detained in the summer of 2023. In 2013, Arthur opened his own business store, Grandbazaare, where he sold branded clothing and shoes. The VKontakte group has more than 40 thousand subscribers. In recent years, his company has specialized in the Under Armor brand. And from 2023, he translated the pages of his business into the Belarusian language.

Arthur is interested in sports, but especially football, and even previously played in amateur leagues as a goalkeeper. He uses football players and other athletes as photos for his avatars on social networks.

In addition to imprisonment, Arthur was awarded a fine of 700 basic units.

He was detained for comments about Russian military . A resident of Volkovysk . A "repentant video " was published on pro-government Telegram channels in which the man says that he was detained for insulting Russian military personnel who "serve in Ukraine " on Telegram , insulting the head of the regional executive committee and the Grodno military commissar.

The man was accused of, in the court's opinion, leaving an offensive comment in a telegram addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Kubrakov and the Deputy Chief of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central District Administration of Minsk, Chief of the Criminal Police Vladimir Kubrakov. Alexander fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions. Before the trial, the man was under personal surety. After the verdict was announced, he was taken into custody in the courtroom.

Alexander Borovik has a minor child in his care. He works as a carpenter-machine operator.

In January 2024, it became known that Pavel was again accused, but this time under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

Ex-lieutenant colonel of the State Security Committee.

The criminal case against the lieutenant colonel is known only from the state media.

In 2021, the ONT TV channel showed the film «Operation of the State Security Committee «Mankurty»», in which they reported on the detention of lieutenant colonel of the State Security Committee Alexei Khralovich.

The man has been in custody of law enforcement officers for about a year at the time of the verdict.

Khralovich was deprived of the military rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Tatyana is a co-founder of the Sympa school for young public administration managers, an expert in the Bipart research project, and a Master of Political Science.

She was detained in Minsk on the night of June 28-29, 2021, at the airport while going through passport control to leave the country. It is known that Tatyana was going to fly on a night flight to Tbilisi. It later became known that she was detained in connection with an initiated criminal case. Tatyana was taken to the temporary detention facility on Okrestina, and a few days later transferred to a pretrial detention center.

On February 6, 2023, the court began considering her case on charges of "aiding actions aimed at seizing power," "calling for actions that harm national security," and "inciting social hatred." On March 17 of the same year, the court sentenced Tatyana in a closed session to 10 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.