Ruslan Hikmetovich Mashadiev
Ruslan Hikmetovich Mashadiev
Number of repressed: 287
Date of birth: 26 september 1981
Categories: Overseers

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.

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Nikolay Nikolaevich Hilo
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In custody: 505 days
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 17.10.1983
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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An employee of the EU delegation to Belarus and a preacher of the Evangelical Christian Baptist Church. According to an EU official who wished to remain anonymous, Hilo was detained by the Belarusian KGB near the EU delegation building on 24 April 2024. After being held at Okrestina, he was taken into custody and is being held in the new pre-trial detention centre in Kolyadichi.

On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries. Among those released is Nikolai Khilo.

Trial outcome 30.12.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 07.03.2025
unknown.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~438 days
folder Categories of cases: The case of «mass riots», Brest, 2020
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth: 10.03.1999
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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He was convicted for participating in a protest that took place in Brest on August 10, 2020.

According to human rights activists , he was released in May 2025, having served his entire sentence.

Trial outcome 24.05.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 23.07.2024
unknown.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~736 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 11.10.1985
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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Dmitry was detained after the Telegram chat "Atolino" was designated an "extremist group" by the KGB on August 31 and added to the corresponding list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on September 6.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs lists the names of the group's members: Pavel Ivanov, Dmitry Tikunov, Evgeniya Mostovaya (Grigorik), Pavel Belonitsky, Alexey Semenov, Yury Antonovich, Alexander Zaitsev, and Vladimir Polekh.

The prosecutor requested a 3-year prison sentence for Dmitry, but the court ultimately sentenced him to 2.5 years.

According to human rights activists , he will be released in the fall of 2025.

Trial outcome 27.05.2024
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 09.08.2024
unknown.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~462 days
Hometown: Baranovichi
Date of birth: 02.05.1997
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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Detained along with other young people in Baranovichi (at the end of December 2023).

And the court's press service reported the verdict (without naming names, but the circumstances fit this group of people). The essence of the charges is stated briefly: they were on the roadway in Baranovichi, shouting slogans, demonstrating white-red-white flags, "intentionally obstructing traffic and the normal functioning of enterprises and organizations." The exact date of the protests is not even indicated, it is simply called "August 2020."

Thus, in 2024, 25 residents of Baranovichi were sentenced for the protests of August 2020. All were sentenced to a penal colony for a term of 1 to 3 years (the only exception was a woman with a child under 3 years old who was sentenced to a penal colony with a deferred sentence).

According to human rights activists , he will be released in June 2025.

Trial outcome 31.05.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 09.08.2024
the sentence was upheld.
Alexander Ivanovich Zubkov
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In custody: 363 days
Hometown: Brozha
Date of birth: 25.03.1968
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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teacher of physics and astronomy at Secondary School No. 27 in Mogilev. On June 27, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

Trial outcome 23.04.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.06.2024
the sentence was upheld.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~617 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 25.10.2000
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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According to human rights activists , he was released in July 2025, having served his full sentence.

Trial outcome 01.04.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 28.06.2024
unknown.
Sergey Vasilevich Sheleg
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In custody: ~537 days
folder Categories of cases: Donate
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 28.09.1960
Number of children: 1 child
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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From 2002 to 2005, he was the medical director of Globalpharma. He subsequently moved to Sanofi-Aventis (now simply Sanofi) as a director. As of 2022, the man was the head of the Genzyme department, which specializes in rare blood diseases, oncology, multiple sclerosis, and immunology. In 2023, Sergey moved to Novomedika. This is a large company that is engaged in the wholesale trade of pharmaceutical products and also has its own clinic in Minsk.

Was arrested for donations.

Sergei has a 10-year-old son.

On June 21, 2025, Sergei was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and was immediately taken to Lithuania.

Trial outcome 22.03.2024
8 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 600 basic values fine.
Appeal 05.07.2024
the sentence was upheld.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~485 days
Hometown: Chachersk
Date of birth: 16.01.1982
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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He was allegedly detained at the end of November 2023. First, he was convicted under an administrative article ( Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus - Distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities), after which charges were brought in a criminal case.

On May 17, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

Trial outcome 19.03.2024
1 year 3 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 17.05.2024
unknown.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~608 days
folder Categories of cases: Baranovichi protests 2020
Hometown: Baranovichi
Date of birth: 06.07.1993
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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Seventeen people from Baranovichi were charged under the "people's" article. They were found guilty of participating in a march in Baranovichi on the night of August 10-11, 2020. They were allegedly on the roadway of the streets, shouting loudly, shouting "slogans" and "displaying" national flags.

According to human rights activists, he will be released in the summer of 2025, having served his full sentence.

Trial outcome 01.04.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 14.06.2024
unknown.
Igor Aleksandrovich Zhivolun
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In custody: 688 days
Hometown: Rechica
Date of birth: 03.03.1983
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Igor Zhivolun, a Ukrainian citizen, hails from the Sumy region of Ukraine. After the full-scale Russian invasion of his homeland and the occupation of his hometown of Nedryhayliv, he actively began spreading information on his Facebook page, helping to locate Ukrainian civilians and soldiers missing in the war, as well as various anti-war information and information about the participation of Belarusians in defending Ukraine from Russian aggressors.

He was released in early September 2025, after which he was deported to Ukraine.

Trial outcome 29.01.2024
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~735 days
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 18.11.1996
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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On March 22, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists , he will be released in the fall of 2025.

Trial outcome 16.01.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 22.03.2024
unknown.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~496 days
folder Categories of cases: Return to Belarus, Brest 2020 Protests
Hometown: Brest
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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Stanislav was detained upon returning to Belarus from Poland, where he had moved more than a year earlier. He came home in late 2023 to spend the holidays with his family, but was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened after protests on August 10, 2020, in Brest against the falsification of the presidential election. Stanislav was convicted of participating in “mass riots.”

In a pro-government confessional video published, he says that he "participated in protests and went out onto the roadway." The recording shows that Stanislav's face is scratched, although no such damage was visible when he was detained.

Trial outcome 06.05.2024
4 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 05.07.2024
the sentence was upheld.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~381 day
folder Categories of cases: Donate
Hometown: Mogilev
Date of birth: 05.02.1985
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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The first episode happened back in January 2022. Then Baranovsky made a transfer from his bank account to an unnamed structure recognized as an extremist formation. The exact amount of the transfer is unknown. In April 2022, Baranovsky made a donation to the account of the Kalinovsky Regiment. It is known that the man was detained in the spring of 2023 by employees of the Office of the State Security Committee for the Mogilev region.

Trial outcome 22.11.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions.
Appeal 09.01.2024
the sentence was upheld.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~781 day
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 27.09.1997
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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On January 12, 2024, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

Trial outcome 02.11.2023
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 12.01.2024
unknown.
Former political prisoners
Request letters Bank of letters 0
In custody: ~539 days
folder Categories of cases: Donate, Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Sakovschina
Date of birth: 21.05.1976
Was in: IK-1IK No. 1, 211445, Novopolotsk, st. Technical, 8
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On 22.12.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.

Alexander has chronic diseases.

Trial outcome 18.10.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 22.12.2023
unknown.
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