Eugene Viktorovich Seryakov
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Eugene Viktorovich Seryakov
Acts as a public prosecutor in politically motivated cases.
Acted as a public prosecutor in the case of drummer Alexey Sanchuk, who was charged under Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in mass riots and Article 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them. Alexey sometimes played at marches. When he was arrested, he was severely beaten. Seryakov requested 6 years of imprisonment for him. Alexey was given 6 years of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony as a punishment.
Acted as a public prosecutor in the case of Vyacheslav Kosinerov, charged under Part 1 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code — Hooliganism. The man threw a rope noose around a sculpture in the image of a tsarist gendarme, installed in front of the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus in order to protest against the arbitrariness of the police authorities. Seryakov requested 2 years of imprisonment for him. Vyacheslav received a fine as punishment.
In 2021, he requested 2 years for a former policeman who resigned in August on moral principles.
In April 2021, he brought charges against a girl for insulting Lidiya Yermoshina.
Acts as a public prosecutor in politically motivated cases.
Acted as a public prosecutor in the case of drummer Alexey Sanchuk, who was charged under Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code — Participation in mass riots and Article 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them. Alexey sometimes played at marches. When he was arrested, he was severely beaten. Seryakov requested 6 years of imprisonment for him. Alexey was given 6 years of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony as a punishment.
Acted as a public prosecutor in the case of Vyacheslav Kosinerov, charged under Part 1 of Article 339 of the Criminal Code — Hooliganism. The man threw a rope noose around a sculpture in the image of a tsarist gendarme, installed in front of the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus in order to protest against the arbitrariness of the police authorities. Seryakov requested 2 years of imprisonment for him. Vyacheslav received a fine as punishment.
In 2021, he requested 2 years for a former policeman who resigned in August on moral principles.
In April 2021, he brought charges against a girl for insulting Lidiya Yermoshina.
List of repressed
Ruslan Ksenzhik was found guilty of participating in protest actions on August 9 and 30, 2020.
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Elena was found guilty in March 2021 of insulting a government official for her comment, "Small ISIS, a tribunal is just around the corner," addressed to Vitaly Fyodorov, a senior sergeant with the Minsk City Executive Committee's OMON police department, under a Facebook post in which she wrote that he would be happy to kill people. Elena pleaded not guilty at the trial.
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Alevtina, a technical writer and copywriter, was found guilty in April 2021 of a criminal offense under the article on insulting a government official for a comment she left in a Telegram chat: "No one will ever be a bigger slut than Yermoshina."
Sergei was arrested in October 2021 as part of a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," and placed in pretrial detention.
In March 2022, he was convicted of participating in a gang-up at a protest in Minsk on August 9, 2020. He reportedly suffered a head injury during the protest.
He was released in January 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Vadim was found guilty in November of "insulting a government official" and "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" for inflammatory messages posted on the Telegram channels "Nikolai Maslovsky," "Army with the People," "Real Belarus," "Khabarovsk. For Furgal," and others. These messages included: "Block the streets...," "Block the roads with cars and our bodies...," "They should get the full punishment this evening," as well as for posts about workers' strikes.
In February 2024, Vadim was convicted again under the article “malicious disobedience to the demands of the colony administration.”
He was released in January 2025, having fully served his sentence.
Kirill was found guilty of engaging in acts that grossly violated public order between 1:59 PM and 7:20 PM on September 13, 2020, in Minsk. He shouted slogans, clapped loudly, moved in a chain of vehicles, and disturbed the peace. According to the prosecution, he acted for selfish motives and in collusion with a group of individuals. He was also found guilty of violating the rules of his previous sentence—two years of house arrest—during which he committed numerous violations.
According to human rights activists, he was released in the spring of 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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Maxim, a former riot police officer, resigned from the service in 2012 (he had decided to leave back in 2010, after the elections). He later went to live in Poland but was forced to return to Belarus and was detained at his home in the agricultural town of Khotzezhino on August 17, 2021. Following his arrest, GUBOPiK officers recorded a "confessional" video with him, in which he spoke about his involvement in the events of August 9–11, 2020. Pro-government Telegram channels, however, portrayed him as a former security officer who resigned in protest in 2020, which was untrue.
In November 2021, Maxim was found guilty of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" and sentenced to restricted freedom without placement in an open-type facility.
In September 2024, a court hearing was held to discuss the issue of replacing the restriction of freedom with a commitment to an open correctional facility. The outcome of the hearing, as well as Maxim's presence, remains unknown.
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Ruslan is a Belarusian blogger who has been creating videos on social and political topics since 2020. By February 2021, his channel had more than 90,000 subscribers. On February 20, 2021, he was detained and later convicted of “insulting a government official.”
It became known that Ruslan was not released from the colony after his term expired, but was transferred to the pretrial detention center in Kolyadichi. The reasons for the new charges are still unknown.
He was released in June 2025, having served his full sentence.
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Dmitry, the former head of the criminal investigation department of the Zavodskoy District Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Minsk, was detained and convicted of insulting a government official.
He was released in February 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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Alexey was detained on November 4, 2020, in Minsk along with drummers. He was beaten during his arrest and then sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest. He was later charged with preparing to participate in "mass riots" and participating in protests. His car was also confiscated.
According to human rights activists, he was expected to be released in July 2026.