Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric
Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
Institution "Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1" of the Department of the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the city of Minsk and Minsk Region. Head. Colonel of the Internal Service.
List of repressed
According to the indictment, on the night of August 9-10, 2020, Maxim Tishkevich was on Masherova Avenue, where he joined other protesters, went out onto the roadway, shouted slogans in public, clapped his hands loudly and waved his arms, and also showed insulting gestures to the side police officers.
In March 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
2 yearsin prison .
Alexey was accused of active participation in group actions that grossly violated public order for the events of September 13, 2020, as well as attempted theft.
He was detained on February 23, 2021 and kept in a pre-trial detention center until his trial. On August 15, 2021, Alexey was sentenced to three years in prison in the Frunzensky District Court of Minsk to be served in a general regime colony . Minsktrans filed a claim for compensation for damage caused in the amount of almost 29 thousand rubles . Alena Busheva also decided to apply “compulsory security measures and treatment for chronic alcoholism and drug addiction” to Alexey at the place where he was serving his sentence.
At the time of his arrest, Alexey Maltsev had an outstanding criminal record and was serving a sentence of restriction of freedom without being sent to the Penitentiary Labor Inspectorate: 2 months and 3 days remained before the expiration of the term at the time of arrest.
11/20/2023 released after expiration of sentence.
3 years in prison.
He was one of the coordinators of the headquarters of Viktor Babariko in the presidential elections and a member of the Coordinating Council. The first time was detained in 2020. On August 28, 2020, he was detained and placed in custody, and on November 12 he was released under the guarantee of Voskresensky.
The second time Vitaly was detained in July 2021. Convicted on August 9, 2021. Entrepreneur, businessman, event manager, organized large corporate events.
In the Leninsky District Court of Minsk on August 6, the chairman of the United Civil Party (UCP), a member of the main staff of the Coordination Council, Nikolai Kozlov, was sentenced to three months of arrest. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 407 of the Criminal Code for disclosing data in a criminal case against the Coordination Council, but the specific episodes of the charges are unknown, since the trial was held behind closed doors. Released on March 26, 2022 at the end of his sentence. At the end of July 2022, he was detained again. According to the indictment, on August 23, 2020, Kozlov, Kovaleva and Alekseeva “publicly shouted slogans, applauded loudly, were on the roadway, thereby blocking and impeding the movement of transport in Minsk, including the city passenger transport Minsktrans.”
The trial of the UCP members began on November 1, 2022 in the Pervomaisky district court of Minsk. On November 3, Judge Anastasia Kulik sentenced the political prisoner to two and a half years in prison.
On January 31, 2023, the Minsk City Court considered the appeal of the UCP leaders. The sentence remained unchanged, and the complaint was not satisfied.
In mid-February, the political prisoner was transferred to Mogilev penal colony No. 15. Immediately after quarantine, Nikolai was placed in a punishment cell until March 26.
At the beginning of May 2023, the political prisoner’s mother died. Nikolai was not released from the colony for the funeral.
At the beginning of July 2023, Nikolai’s associates said that the political prisoner was hospitalized with bronchitis.
In mid-December 2023, it became known that the politician was placed in the FCT for 2 months in November.
07/22/2024 released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
The first sentence is 3 months of arrest .
The second sentence is 2 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
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Tatyana is a sociologist, expert at the Agency for Humanitarian Technologies and coordinator of the Flying University. She was first detained in August 2021 after a search and placed under arrest for 10 days, but after her release she remained a suspect in the criminal case.
She was detained again on March 23, 2022, the day she came to the Investigative Committee to receive a response to her petition to leave for treatment.
In June 2022, Tatyana was convicted for participating in a protest that took place on October 25, 2020, in Minsk, and sentenced to restriction of freedom with referral to a correctional institution.
She was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
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Belarusian philosopher and methodologist, public and political figure, founder of the Flying University. He was detained on August 4, 2021, after a search of his house as part of a criminal case.
On February 13, a trial was held in the Shklov District Court to change Vladimir's detention regime and transfer him to a prison regime.
On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 political prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries . Among those released is Vladimir Matskevich.
Alexei was accused of shouting "Long live Belarus!" and "Lukashenko is a rooster!" while on his apartment balcony on May 15, 2021, while intoxicated. The prosecution claims he did this deliberately loudly so that others could hear him. By doing so, they claim, he insulted Lukashenko.
According to human rights activists, he was released in August 2022, having fully served his sentence.
In February 2023, Alexei was tried for "failure to comply with preventive supervision requirements." This is the first case known to human rights activists of a former political prisoner being tried under this article.
Pavel was arrested on June 17, 2021, in connection with a criminal case involving group actions grossly violating public order. In September of that year, he was convicted of participating in the post-election protests that took place in Minsk in August 2020.
Andrei was first convicted in March 2021 for "insulting Lukashenko" and "insulting a government official" and sentenced to restricted freedom with a referral. However, he didn't have time to serve his sentence in a correctional facility: on May 4, 2021, he was arrested on three additional criminal charges.
In August of that year, Andrei was convicted again – again for insulting Lukashenko – and sentenced to imprisonment.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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In 2021, Yuri was accused of publicly insulting Lukashenko while in a hospital in Chechersk.
In June 2022, he was charged with malicious disobedience to the demands of the correctional facility administration. Three days before his release, he was found guilty and sentenced to mandatory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. On July 1, 2022, he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court under his first conviction.
From August 2022, by court order, he was held in the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health and was released in September 2023.
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Oleg is a journalist for Radio Svaboda, previously worked for the Znamya Yunosti newspaper, and was one of the founders of the RID news agency. In the summer of 2020, he actively covered the protests in Belarus and conducted live streams. In August, he lost his Foreign Ministry accreditation along with other journalists from foreign media outlets.
On July 16, 2021, he was detained during a large-scale search of independent journalists' homes. He was released ten days later, remaining a suspect. On December 23 of that year, security forces again raided his home and took him into custody on charges of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order or actively participating in them."
In March 2022, the court found Oleg guilty, declaring that he participated in unauthorized protests during which Minsktrans calculated damages of 56,000 rubles.
In September 2022, the journalist was released as part of a pardon.
Igor was convicted in July 2021 in a criminal case opened in connection with the August 2020 events in Minsk. According to the prosecution, he took part in protests that took place in the capital from August 9 to 11, 2020. Minsktrans estimated the damage from the public transportation shutdown during those days at 27,958 rubles 50 kopecks. After the verdict was announced, Igor was taken into custody right in the courtroom.
In May 2025, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Yulia, a human rights activist and volunteer at the Moscow Center for Civil Society and Information (MCGI) "Our House," and the daughter of renowned human rights activist Natalia Goryachko-Basalyga, was detained on July 14, 2021, as part of a criminal case opened under the article "Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them."
In March 2022, the court found Yulia guilty and sentenced her to imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
Yulia was released in the courtroom. Her time in custody was counted toward her sentence, so her sentence was considered fully served.
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Timur, an activist with the "Honest People" initiative, was arrested on June 16, 2021, at the premiere of the play "White Rabbit, Red Rabbit" and convicted twice under administrative law. After 30 days of administrative arrest, he was not released and was transferred to a pretrial detention center as part of a criminal case opened under the article "Organization and preparation of actions grossly violating public order, or active participation therein."
In September 2021, he was found guilty and sentenced to restricted freedom and sent to an open correctional facility.
Timur left Belarus before starting to serve his sentence.
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Alexander is the chairman and founder of the Viasna Human Rights Center and former vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights. He is a laureate of the Andrei Sakharov Freedom Prize and other international human rights awards. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times and won it in 2022.
Alexander had previously been prosecuted. On August 4, 2011, he was arrested after Lithuania and Poland handed over his bank account information to Belarusian authorities. He was charged with concealing income on an especially large scale. On November 24, 2011, the court sentenced him to imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony with confiscation of property. Alexander pleaded not guilty, claiming that the funds were used exclusively for human rights activities. EU countries, the United States, and international human rights organizations recognized him as a political prisoner, and his sentence was politically motivated. He was released in the summer of 2014 under an amnesty.
On July 14, 2021, Alexander was arrested again following a search of his apartment and office as part of a tax evasion case. In September 2022, that case was dropped, but he was charged with new charges of smuggling and financing group activities that grossly violate public order.
In March 2023, he was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment and ordered to pay substantial compensation. He pleaded not guilty in court.
In early November 2023, Alexander was placed in a PKT for trumped-up reasons. In April–May 2024, he was returned to his unit, but he continues to be under increased scrutiny. He works in woodworking, receives penalties, and is deprived of parcels, video calls, and correspondence. It is known that his previous stint in the Bobruisk penal colony has left him with health problems that persist.
On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and taken to Lithuania.
