Basil Stepanovich Avrusevich
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Basil Stepanovich Avrusevich
He handed down punitive sentences in politically motivated cases. For example, Avrusevich found Alexander Shalyutin guilty under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official), imposed a sentence of two years of restriction of freedom without being sent to a correctional facility. In addition, the judge decided to pay 1,500 rubles in moral compensation to the Gantsevichi policeman and confiscate the defendant’s laptop as a means of committing a crime for the state. Alexander simply left an offensive comment in June 2020 under a post with a photograph of Gantsevichi traffic police officer Igor Volnich, who was pressing the head of a protester lying on the ground with his knee.
On August 27 of this year, Kossovo resident B. removed four flags from shops and institutions. He put three behind the post office building, and took one to the monument. Avrusevich sentenced him to two years of restriction of freedom with a referral to an open correctional facility under Article 370 of the Criminal Code for desecration of the state flag of the Republic of Belarus.
He handed down punitive sentences in politically motivated cases. For example, Avrusevich found Alexander Shalyutin guilty under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official), imposed a sentence of two years of restriction of freedom without being sent to a correctional facility. In addition, the judge decided to pay 1,500 rubles in moral compensation to the Gantsevichi policeman and confiscate the defendant’s laptop as a means of committing a crime for the state. Alexander simply left an offensive comment in June 2020 under a post with a photograph of Gantsevichi traffic police officer Igor Volnich, who was pressing the head of a protester lying on the ground with his knee.
On August 27 of this year, Kossovo resident B. removed four flags from shops and institutions. He put three behind the post office building, and took one to the monument. Avrusevich sentenced him to two years of restriction of freedom with a referral to an open correctional facility under Article 370 of the Criminal Code for desecration of the state flag of the Republic of Belarus.
List of repressed
Military analyst Egor Lebedk was awarded 15 days of administrative arrest under Article 24.3 of the Administrative Code. After a day, Yegor did not come out and was detained on a criminal case of promoting extremist activities for comments for Euroradio.
In October 2022, channels supporting the current government of the Republic of Belarus published the news that another criminal case was opened against Egor on the basis of repetition, and noted that each interview by an extremist forms a separate crime.
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A team member of YouTube channel «Country for Life» team, RV driver, lived in a city of Staryia Darohi, Minsk region.
Detained during a picket for collecting signatures in support of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in Grodno on May 29, 2020.
On July 13, 2023, it became known that the political prisoner was transferred to a prison regime for a period of 2 years. Alexander was offered several times to write an application for pardon, but he refused.
He was convicted under two articles of the criminal code. In 2025, a court hearing was held regarding his transfer to a different type of correctional facility and a change in the prison conditions.
He was released in February 2026.
Maxim was accused of leaving an offensive comment on the Odnoklassniki social network in a group titled "Belsat TV Channel" under a news story about a single mother's sentencing. The story claimed the single mother had allegedly insulted police officer Kutsko with an "offensive symbol" and received two years of "house arrest." Maxim's own comment also targeted Kutsko, and the story was accompanied by a photograph of "police officers in uniform."
The police officer demanded compensation for "moral damages," the court upheld the claim, and Maxim's phone was confiscated by the state as "an instrument of committing a crime."
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Nikolai was repeatedly tried for “unauthorized picketing,” and in March 2022, the man was arrested for 20 days for calling for participation in the protest on February 27. He was detained at home by five security officers wearing bulletproof vests.
On December 5, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict entered into force.
A resident of the Ivatsevichi district. She keeps horses in the village of Khodorki, gives the opportunity to ride them and take photos. This activity of hers is registered as the equestrian farmstead "Razgon".
She was charged under Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code for publicly insulting Lukashenko. On September 20, 2023, the woman published a "repentant video" in which she says that she received a punishment in the form of "house arrest".
Evgeny Vasilevsky was detained almost a year ago in Moscow, from March 25 to April 7, 2022, he was sentenced to administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding mass events).
The essence of the accusation is still unknown. Probably, we are talking about the transfer of personal data of security forces to protest chats.
In the fall of 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
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Former police officer Alexander Sazonov and Yevgeny Vasilevsky were detained almost a year ago, on February 27, 2022, in Minsk, and on March 1, both were punished with administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding mass events).
The Pervomaisky District Court of Minsk sentenced Sazonov to 13 days of arrest for participating in a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Vasilevsky to 15 days.
The essence of the accusation is still unknown. It is likely that it concerns the transfer of personal data of security officials to protest chats.
According to human rights activists , he was released on September 9, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Elena has been convicted multiple times on politically motivated charges, including "insulting a government official" and "insulting Lukashenko" through comments on Telegram channels.
Her first trial took place in December 2022 for "insulting a government official," the outcome of which is unknown. In March 2023, she was sentenced to restricted freedom without being sent to an open correctional facility and a large fine for a comment with an emoji addressed to police captain Ruslan Kutsko.
In April 2024, a new criminal case was heard against Elena under the articles "insulting a government official" and "insulting Lukashenko," the verdict for which is also unknown.
In October 2024, she was convicted of "inciting hatred or discord" for comments about Lukashenko, security forces, and participants in the war in Ukraine, and sentenced to imprisonment.
Released in autumn 2025 .
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Olga, a craftswoman, had her first trial in August 2021. The case stemmed from a comment she made on the Telegram channel "Punisher Belarus" under a post by police captain Ruslan Kutsko: "a familiar face" with three poop emojis. The court sentenced her to restricted freedom and ordered her to pay compensation.
On February 9, 2022, she was found guilty of "insulting a government official" for the comment "shit himself and disgraced himself" under photos of the same captain and was again sentenced to restricted freedom, a large fine, and compensation.
In 2023, two court hearings were held on the issue of replacing the fine with community service; the results of these hearings are unknown.
It is known that political persecution and pressure against Olga continues: from March 2024 to the spring of 2025, at least three court hearings were held under the administrative article for "dissemination of extremist materials."
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Sergei was detained in a criminal case opened after spontaneous protests on August 10, 2020 in Brest against falsifications in the presidential elections. He was convicted of participating in "mass riots."
Before his imprisonment, he worked as a turner, is interested in metalworking and design, and has a mathematical mind.
In the summer of 2023, his detention regime was tightened - Sergei was transferred to a prison regime until the end of his sentence.
According to human rights activists, he was released in October 2024, having fully served his sentence.