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.
Detained for a comment in a telegram chat after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment. Victor suffers from diabetes, an insulin-dependent form, and has a disability.
On May 17, 2023, he was released after the expiration of his sentence.
Trial outcome 29.07.2022:
1,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of the general regime.
Alexey was convicted of messages in the "Grodno for Life" chat room calling for direct action, as well as instructions on how to make Molotov cocktails. He admitted his guilt at trial but refused to testify.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Third-year student. Was brutally detained in cars with his mother. In the car, the wheels were shot through and the windows were broken by the security forces. During the arrest, violence was used. The young man was accused of transporting Molotov cocktails.
Alexander, a student at the Belarusian State Aviation Academy, was arrested on June 6, 2022 and convicted of, according to investigators, "systematically providing information to the Nexta Telegram channel."
He was released in September 2024 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.
Sergei is a military pensioner with the rank of lieutenant colonel. It is known that he participated in protests - he was detained at the Sunday march on November 8, 2020. He was stripped of his military rank by Alexander Lukashenko.
During the trial, it was established that in January 2021, Sergei posted comments with insults against Lukashenko, as well as an employee of his Security Service, on one of the “extremist” Telegram channels.
The judge imposed a sentence of imprisonment for a period of one year in a colony. But the Bobruisk district prosecutor filed an appeal.
The protest was satisfied in full - the final sentence of imprisonment for the totality of crimes was increased to two years.
05/20/2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court
The young man was charged with the fact that on February 27, 2022, he sent a video of a military aircraft to the telegram bot. Since this video was posted on the telegram channel recognized as extremist in the Republic of Belarus, these actions were qualified under Part 1 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Support of extremist activity).
Konstantin was taken into custody in the courtroom.
Released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome:
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
In April 2024, a trial "On Amending Compulsory Security and Treatment Measures" was held. Afterward, Alexander was apparently sent to a penal colony. He is serving his sentence in Correctional Colony No. 1.
It is known that Alexander is free, but the sentence for the political article, as well as the release date, are unknown due to the closed judicial system in Belarus.
Trial outcome 01.03.2022
compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
Regime change trial 29.04.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
He works at the Mayak supplementary education center and taught an art club. Pro-government Telegram channels reported that he allegedly planned to travel to Ukraine and join Kalinovsky's battalion. He was detained for registering with the Peramoga chatbot.
He was brought up in a family orphanage.
The trial was held behind closed doors, so the details of the hearing and the political prisoner's position on the case are unknown.
Born in Narva, Estonian SSR, to a Soviet military family. Architect. Graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute.
On his Facebook page, he published posts about the history of Belarus and his views on Russia. "Poland is Belarus's brother, Ukraine its sister!" he wrote in November 2021.
Prior to the trial, the accused was under a travel restriction and was remanded in custody in the courtroom. The Mogilev resident has a third-degree disability, and in April, he spent 17 days undergoing psychological and psychiatric evaluation in Novinki, where he was found sane.
On June 16, 2022, the KGB added him to the list of “persons involved in terrorist activities.”
On September 27, 2022, the appeal was heard and the verdict entered into force.
In June 2025, he was released , having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
According to the prosecution materials, Valery Zakharchik at the beginning of 2022 on the Odnoklassniki social network, after watching a video file insulting a government official - the head of the department of supervisory and executive activities of the public security police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, SergeiNikel - he liked and posted the video on his page.
Similarly, on Odnoklassniki I saw a video that, according to the expert opinion, had a negative assessment of the dictator and an obscene form of speech, gave it a “like” and posted it on my page.
On November 22, 2022, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
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