Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Correctional Colony No. 1. Such actions include psychological and, in some cases, physical violence, illegal sending to solitary confinement, restrictions on correspondence and receiving parcels from persons in the institution. He exerted pressure on prisoner Ilya Baranovsky, which significantly worsened his health. It was under his leadership that Viktor Babariko was hospitalized from the colony to the city hospital on April 25, 2023. In this colony, convicts are systematically brutally beaten. Before becoming the head, he also took direct part in beating convicts, helping the former head of the colony.
Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Correctional Colony No. 1. Such actions include psychological and, in some cases, physical violence, illegal sending to solitary confinement, restrictions on correspondence and receiving parcels from persons in the institution. He exerted pressure on prisoner Ilya Baranovsky, which significantly worsened his health. It was under his leadership that Viktor Babariko was hospitalized from the colony to the city hospital on April 25, 2023. In this colony, convicts are systematically brutally beaten. Before becoming the head, he also took direct part in beating convicts, helping the former head of the colony.
Dmitry Bogush worked in the banking sector for 18 years, was Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of JSC «Technobank». Subsequently, he went into business — built wind farms at two sites in the Grodno region.
In December 2022, 50-year—old Bogush was detained for an article about inciting discord - he allegedly wrote comments on social networks threatening Lukashenko and law enforcement officers.
According to Bogush, he was prompted to speak publicly on social networks by photos of beaten young people detained at protests after the 2020 elections.
The businessman said that he subsequently deleted his posts, but refused to leave Belarus, although his friends told him about it.
A citizen of Poland. As it turned out , Robert Tompala has lived in Belarus since the 90s, has a residence permit, and is a co-founder of OrionSvit LLC, a company that supplies confectionery products.
He was released in April 2025. Forcibly deported to Poland, banned from entering the Republic of Belarus for 8 years.
Trial outcome 17.04.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
20 year old Vladislav was accused of taking photos and videos of military equipment, military personnel, as well as a military airfield in Bobruisk from February 24 to February 25, 2022.
Then Vladislav forwarded at least 9 video files and photos to a telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 27.03.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Vyacheslav was convicted for insulting comments towards Lukashenko and police officers on Facebook.
It became known about the verdict from a video on State TV. In it, Prosecutor Pavel Kurpenich said that Vyacheslav was held in custody before the trial, and during the trial he fully admitted guilt.
Vyacheslav Kobrin is 58 years old. The man is married, enjoys fishing.
Trial outcome 24.03.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Born in Ukraine. European kickboxing champion. Allegedly detained for wanting to fight in Ukraine.
In court, Pavel stated that he initially reacted emotionally to the war in Ukraine, but later abandoned the idea of fighting. Furthermore, Pavel is charged with illegally crossing the Russian border into Belarus with potent substances (100 stanozolol tablets) and illegally acquiring and possessing ammunition (16 9mm cartridge casings and 12 9mm rounds).
On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Trial outcome 03.04.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Pavel is a resident of Gomel, studied at the Francysk Skaryna Gomel State University. An active player in the quiz.
With the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the man on his vk.com page actively spoke out against the war. Later, his page was blocked by the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.
Pavel's anti-war statements in social networks could be the reason for accusing him of inciting other social hostility.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in September 2023.
The man was accused of participating in protests in 2020 and going out onto the roadway. "They stood in a chain with other people, clapped their hands, shouted loudly, and shouted various slogans," the court ruling says.
At the rally, police officers pushed Kirill back with a metal shield and cut his head with a rubber truncheon until it bled.
Komarov fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions.
Kirill has a secondary specialized education and is supporting a minor child.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Trial outcome 16.02.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Anatoly came to Belarus to be examined: he was diagnosed with cancer.
At first, the man was convicted under administrative article 19.11 (distribution of extremist materials) before his arrest. But even before the end of this arrest, he was charged under article 368 of the Criminal Code for insulting Lukashenko, and put in prison.
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