Denis Aleksandrovich Kovalev

He is an IT Worker.

The Homel resident's fault was only in one episode: on March 9, he was driving his car along Lenin Avenue, noticed a Russian military KAMAZ, took a picture of it on an iPhone and sent the picture to an information Telegram channel recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus.

To detain him, the police staged a whole special operation. Andrey was harshly pressured during interrogations.

On December 27, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.

According to the position of the state prosecution, Sanyuta, a resident of Baranovichi, incited hostility against law enforcement officers, namely: on August 12, 2020, he posted one message in the telegram chat «Baranovichi 97%». In this message, calls for violence against the security forces were seen in two places: «Look for law enforcement officers who come to mass events in civilian clothes and beat them with a crowd», «Lure a special purpose militia unit into ambushes».

He was detained and convicted for participating in protests.

Released in April 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Andrey was detained on March 2, 2022 for a video involving a military man. A video with Andrei's confession appeared in the telegram channels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The man was found guilty of violence or threat of violence against the soldier Mikhail Krut for the fact that during one anti-war rally on February 27, 2022 in Minsk, Andrei simply walked at him while he was retreating. The video spread through Internet sources.

During the interrogation, Andrei was tortured, as he told the court. The man did not admit his guilt.

The man did not admit his guilt.

09.26.2023 released after expiration of sentence.

First, Yevgeny was detained on an administrative case, sentenced to 5 days of arrest, then under a new protocol for 15 days of arrest and even later for 13 days of arrest. After that, he was detained on a criminal case.

According to the accusation, Yevgeny spread obviously false data and slander on the Internet against the head of the traffic police, the leaders of the Gomel special purpose police unit and an employee of the Gomel Technical University named after P. V. Sukhoi — there were six victims in the case. The distribution consisted in the fact that Galich sent two other people's articles in a personal message, adding on his own: «We can repeat it».

In court, this was considered a call for mass actions.

At the beginning of January 2024, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.

Detained for participating in protests. Electrician of the Gomel thermal power plant.

On November 1, 2022, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.

According to official information , in 2020, a man posted a screenshot on social networks that showed a frame from the protests in August 2020 on Sovetskaya Street in Gomel. He accompanied the post with a text in which he called the security forces “subhumans” and expressed the hope that they “will be held accountable for crimes against their people.”

In the fall of 2021, the man was facing an administrative case “for distributing information products containing calls for extremist activity.”

On November 28, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.

Alexander was arrested in December 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and was remanded in custody pending trial.

In April 2022, he was convicted of participating in a post-election protest that took place on August 9, 2020, in Molodechno and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2023, having fully served his sentence.

Detained for participating in protest actions. He worked at the «Minsk Tractor Plant».

Suspected of calling for a strike.

According to the case materials, in August 2020, a member of the group chat used his mobile phone to post messages from his account containing statements of an inciting nature and calls for physical violence against law enforcement officers.

On August 15, 2020 and February 12, 2021, he posted offensive comments in a Telegram chat about the president, as well as the military commissar of the Gomel region, Andrei Krivonosov.

He was released in June 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Nikita was found guilty of "desecration of state symbols." According to the prosecution, demonstrating an offensive and disdainful attitude toward the Belarusian national flag, he climbed onto the roof of a building and tore the flag from its pole, damaging the staff. He and Yaroslav Geben then took photographs with the flag and filmed a video of it being used. The prosecution claims the flag was repeatedly thrown to the ground and into the bushes.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.

According to the prosecution's version, Vitaliy Zhilinsky repeatedly in August-September 2020, as part of a group of people, moved along the carriageways of Nezavisimost Avenue, Pobediteley, Pushkin, Maxim Bogdanovich and Yakub Kolos Streets in Minsk, publicly shouting slogans. As a result of illegal actions, transport links in the capital were blocked, which led to a malfunction of public transport.

In addition, the political prisoner was charged with posting on January 6 and 9, 2022, in one of the Telegram chats, publications available to an unlimited number of persons aimed at inciting social hostility and discord against military personnel who carried out peacekeeping activities in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Ruslan was found guilty in December 2021 in a criminal case brought for "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2022, having fully served his sentence.

Pavel was detained in March 2021 by traffic police on a highway near Minsk, where leaflets, newspapers and stickers were found in his car; according to the Investigative Committee, "thousands of copies of protest newspapers, stickers with unregistered symbols and leaflets" were seized. The department immediately after his detention called him the administrator of the Telegram channel "Atolino".

At the time of his arrest, Pavel worked for a private advertising company and was previously a video engineer on television. In 2020, he was part of the campaign staff of presidential candidate Viktor Babariko.

In January 2022, he was convicted on charges of producing and distributing protest printed materials (leaflets, stickers, newspapers), as well as participating in Sunday marches that took place in Minsk in August–September 2020.

According to human rights activists, he was released in October 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.