Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Grodno Prison 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. On July 11, 2023, political prisoner Ales Pushkin died in a hospital in Grodno. He was taken there from the territory of Prison No. 1 in Grodno. As the head of this prison, he is responsible for the conditions of detention and the untimely provision of medical care to prisoners, which led to a tragic outcome. In particular, his actions clearly show disregard for the rights of prisoners, including for political reasons.
Responsible for all illegal actions against prisoners in Grodno Prison 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. On July 11, 2023, political prisoner Ales Pushkin died in a hospital in Grodno. He was taken there from the territory of Prison No. 1 in Grodno. As the head of this prison, he is responsible for the conditions of detention and the untimely provision of medical care to prisoners, which led to a tragic outcome. In particular, his actions clearly show disregard for the rights of prisoners, including for political reasons.
It is known that the GUBOPiK officers are investigating the case against people who were allegedly involved in the Telegram chat "partisans of Novogrudok". Criminal cases have been opened against them under the article "extremism". All those who were interrogated in the case are being asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
The media reports that at least six people among those detained by security forces 15 days ago have not been released after serving their administrative arrest, including Tatyana.
Trial outcome 21.10.2025
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, 800 basic values fine.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 24.01.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
A sole proprietor. According to the prosecution, he allegedly left negative comments about Russia after the terrorist attack at Crocus Hall and called for bombing Russian cities.
Andrey was detained in March. Pro-government channels published a "repentant" video of him.
Trial outcome 04.12.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 18.02.2025
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.09.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Igor previously headed the Neman glass factory for 12 years. In 2014, the media wrote that Batyan would bear "full financial responsibility" for damage caused to the property of this enterprise during the organization of glass wool production.
Batyan left the glass factory director's chair in 2017. After leaving the enterprise, he headed the department of children's and youth hockey and development of the Belarusian Hockey Federation.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Ilya Naryshkin is 21 years old. He is originally from Slonim, but spent part of his childhood in Grodno. Ilya’s father is Ukrainian, born in Krivoy Rog. He graduated from an aviation school back in Soviet times, but worked as a mechanical engineer in different countries. They haven’t lived together with the guy’s mother for a very long time.
Ilya entered the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Now he should have completed his third year at the Faculty of Criminal Corrections. It is known that during his studies he lived an active life - he performed in various competitions and even participated in an intellectual game from the Belarus-2 TV channel, called “Tower”. The latest public information about him dates back to March 2023.
Perhaps 21-year-old Ilya Naryshkin wanted to join the Belarusian volunteers in Ukraine. People who expressed their intention to go to fight on the side of Ukraine, expressed online or offline, were most often judged under the articles that were brought against him lately. Some of these people corresponded with fake bots of the Kalinovsky regiment, created by the special services of the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 14.08.2024
15 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 600 basic values fine.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Igor was detained on November 23, 2023. From a video on a pro-government channel published by security forces, it is known that he was a co-founder of a company for urban route transportation.
On camera, Igor says that he was detained for comments in Telegram channels about the Belarusian and Russian military.
Trial outcome 08.07.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 10.09.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The expected date of Andrey’s detention is September 20, 2023. On this day, a “repentance” video appeared, where a man says that he allegedly wrote negative comments about Lukashenko, officials, police officers, the Russian military, and also threatened people who support the current government.
44-year-old Andrei Burdenya was detained for comments in telegram chats, of which he left more than three hundred. Andrey studied at school No. 6, and then served in the army. It is known that now he is temporarily not working, but previously he worked for some time in the IT field, and even earlier he was engaged in the production of kitchen furniture and had his own individual entrepreneur
Trial outcome 08.07.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 27.09.2024
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
On 01.08.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 22.05.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 01.08.2024
unknown.
Regime change trial 10.12.2025
unknown years of prison regime.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The first time she was detained by the KGB at the end of January 2024 (during the mass detentions of relatives and friends of political prisoners) for writing letters and transferring money to the accounts of political prisoners in the pre-trial detention center of prison No. 1. Then a criminal case was opened against her under Art. 361-2 (financing extremist activities), but the woman was not taken into custody.
During the search, equipment and money were confiscated from her. After examining the technique, unwanted comments were allegedly discovered on social networks, and an examination was then carried out on them. After receiving the results of the examination, on April 20, 2024, Victoria was re-detained and placed in a temporary detention facility, and subsequently in a pre-trial detention center.
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
The detention of the Lidchan resident became known on September 22. In a police video, he said that he was “registered in the Peramoga Plan” and left “threats” to security forces in a telegram. According to the telegram channel “Detentions, courts in Lida,” the man was arrested for 15 days under an unnamed administrative article.
Trial outcome 27.05.2024
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 23.08.2024
the sentence was upheld.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
In March 2024, pro-government Telegram channels published a "repentant" video featuring Vladimir Nikonov. On camera , he admits to having made "unflattering comments" about Lukashenko, ministers, security officials, and their children.
He was arrested on administrative charges on March 21, 2024. He served 10 days in custody and was charged with a criminal offense three days later. He was released on his own recognizance. In December 2024, his detention was commuted to custody.
Trial outcome 19.02.2025
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal date unknown
unknown.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
In a pro-government video, Ivan says that he was detained for “unfriendly” comments regarding government officials and police officers on Youtube and Telegram. According to the security forces, he was also registered in the Peramoga plan.
Trial outcome 12.06.2024
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
Truck driver. The man was initially accused of hooliganism (Part 3 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code) and the creation of an extremist group or participation in it (Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code).
The Minsk City Court completed its consideration of the criminal case on February 29, 2024. Burako was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for a period of five years under Part 3 of Art. 361-1 CC. The hooliganism charge was dropped.
According to the investigation , on the evening of May 11, 2023, on the M-5 Minsk-Gomel highway near the village of Yasen, near Bobruisk, “the driver of a DAF vehicle, driving past a stopped military transport convoy, detonated an unidentified device, independently made from pyrotechnic products, by throwing him towards the military personnel and military equipment and then tried to hide.
However, during the pursuit, his car was blocked by the military, and he himself was detained."
It was established that “extremist” symbols were pasted in the cabin of the car, and several subscriptions to radical channels recognized as extremist, including the “victory” plan, were on the mobile phone.
On April 12, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 29.02.2024
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 12.04.2024
unknown.
Regime change trial date unknown
unknown years of prison regime.
After the sentence comes into effect, it is only possible to write letters to a prisoner. According to article 85 of the Penal Enforcement Code, prisoners cannot receive money transfers from persons who are not family members. Parcels are also only possible from relatives. If you want to help, help families directly, if this option is available on the prisoner's card.
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