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Elena Nikolaevna Shilko
Elena Nikolaevna Shilko personally takes direct part in politically motivated repressions in the Republic of Belarus, the consequence of which is, among other things, the death of people persecuted by the current regime. Shilko has been delivering convictions in political cases since at least 2006. Considers complaints about unlawful decisions of his colleagues, leaving them in force. Conducts closed hearings. She sentenced Ales Pushkin to 5 years in prison under two articles of the Criminal Code: under Part 3 of Art. 130 (deliberate actions to rehabilitate Nazism, committed by a group of persons) and Art. 370 (desecration of state symbols). This case has completely politically motivated implications, since Ales was an opponent of Lukashenko’s regime and directly expressed his civic position. On July 11, 2023, Ales died in intensive care under unknown circumstances. Taking into account the fact that Ales was illegally convicted and subsequently died while serving his prison term, there is reason to assert that this employee is directly related to this death. In 2011, Shilko sentenced Young Front activists Dashkevich and Lobov. The young people were detained in Minsk on December 18, 2010. According to information from the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk City Executive Committee, in the courtyard of a residential building on Yanka Bryl Street they allegedly beat Konstantin Savitsky and Oleg Malyshev. Representatives of the opposition and human rights activists regarded the detention of Dashkevich and Lobov as a preventive measure by the police on the eve of the elections. Dashkevich was sentenced to two years in prison in a general regime colony, Lobov - to four years in a maximum security colony. Convicted Dmitry Doronin, Sergei Kazakov, Vladimir Loban, Vitaly Matsukevich, Evgeniy Sekret and Oleg Fedorkevich, who were accused under Part 2 of Article 293 “Participation in mass riots.” Shilko sentenced everyone to 3-3.5 years in prison. Elena Shilko convicted political prisoner student Artem Boyarsky under Article 342 of the Criminal Code - Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them, and Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code - Creation of an extremist formation or participation in it. The young man was severely beaten during his arrest. Also, a video appeared on Azarenka’s Telegram channel in which Artem admits to administering a public page recognized as extremist. To force him to say this on video, the guy was beaten with batons on his back and buttocks. Artem told his lawyer this during interrogation. Shilko sentenced him to five years in prison under enhanced security conditions. She sentenced political prisoner Mia Mitkevich to three years in a general regime colony for comments about the situation in the country. She convicted political prisoner Ivan Cherevako and sentenced him to 4 years in prison. Thus, Elena Nikolaevna Shilko is responsible for human rights violations and undermining the principles of the rule of law, as well as for promoting repression against representatives of civil society and the democratic opposition, which also results in the death of people persecuted by the regime. Her work within the judiciary is focused on maintaining the position of the existing government, rather than on enforcing the law. Shilko’s actions contribute to human rights violations, strengthening the power of Alexander Lukashenko and increasing politically motivated repression in the Republic of Belarus.
Elena Nikolaevna Shilko personally takes direct part in politically motivated repressions in the Republic of Belarus, the consequence of which is, among other things, the death of people persecuted by the current regime. Shilko has been delivering convictions in political cases since at least 2006. Considers complaints about unlawful decisions of his colleagues, leaving them in force. Conducts closed hearings. She sentenced Ales Pushkin to 5 years in prison under two articles of the Criminal Code: under Part 3 of Art. 130 (deliberate actions to rehabilitate Nazism, committed by a group of persons) and Art. 370 (desecration of state symbols). This case has completely politically motivated implications, since Ales was an opponent of Lukashenko’s regime and directly expressed his civic position. On July 11, 2023, Ales died in intensive care under unknown circumstances. Taking into account the fact that Ales was illegally convicted and subsequently died while serving his prison term, there is reason to assert that this employee is directly related to this death. In 2011, Shilko sentenced Young Front activists Dashkevich and Lobov. The young people were detained in Minsk on December 18, 2010. According to information from the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk City Executive Committee, in the courtyard of a residential building on Yanka Bryl Street they allegedly beat Konstantin Savitsky and Oleg Malyshev. Representatives of the opposition and human rights activists regarded the detention of Dashkevich and Lobov as a preventive measure by the police on the eve of the elections. Dashkevich was sentenced to two years in prison in a general regime colony, Lobov - to four years in a maximum security colony. Convicted Dmitry Doronin, Sergei Kazakov, Vladimir Loban, Vitaly Matsukevich, Evgeniy Sekret and Oleg Fedorkevich, who were accused under Part 2 of Article 293 “Participation in mass riots.” Shilko sentenced everyone to 3-3.5 years in prison. Elena Shilko convicted political prisoner student Artem Boyarsky under Article 342 of the Criminal Code - Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them, and Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code - Creation of an extremist formation or participation in it. The young man was severely beaten during his arrest. Also, a video appeared on Azarenka’s Telegram channel in which Artem admits to administering a public page recognized as extremist. To force him to say this on video, the guy was beaten with batons on his back and buttocks. Artem told his lawyer this during interrogation. Shilko sentenced him to five years in prison under enhanced security conditions. She sentenced political prisoner Mia Mitkevich to three years in a general regime colony for comments about the situation in the country. She convicted political prisoner Ivan Cherevako and sentenced him to 4 years in prison. Thus, Elena Nikolaevna Shilko is responsible for human rights violations and undermining the principles of the rule of law, as well as for promoting repression against representatives of civil society and the democratic opposition, which also results in the death of people persecuted by the regime. Her work within the judiciary is focused on maintaining the position of the existing government, rather than on enforcing the law. Shilko’s actions contribute to human rights violations, strengthening the power of Alexander Lukashenko and increasing politically motivated repression in the Republic of Belarus.
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Sergei was detained in February 2024. First, he was given a day for "dissemination of extremist materials", and then a criminal case was opened and he was transferred to a pretrial detention center. The case probably concerns the comments. Sergei faces four to twelve years in prison.
Sergey's hobby is music. In the 2000s, he played in the band "Lesnoye Radio". He participated in several other projects, translated foreign songs into Belarusian.
Sergey Yuryevich Gorlov studied at the Minsk State Linguistic University, and later graduated from the European Humanities University. He worked as a translator and English tutor. His last known place of work was the Sakharov Institute in Minsk.
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- IT staff
Marina is a Belarusian-speaking IT specialist from EPAM who is also involved in creative work. She writes articles for the Belarusian Wikipedia, makes illustrations, translates into Belarusian, and writes poetry. After the start of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, she moved to Georgia, but then returned to Belarus for unknown reasons. Soon after, she was detained as part of a criminal case and convicted under the articles “financing extremist activity” and “financing or other financial support of war.”
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- Foreign citizens
Citizen of Poland. It is known that on July 19, 2022, Roman arrived in Belarus and disappeared: nothing was known about his whereabouts, and the South-West search and rescue team announced a search for him. Later it became known that Galuza was alive and his whereabouts had been established - without any details. But an acquaintance of Roman wrote on social networks that he was in a KGB pre-trial detention center.
In Poland, Galuza graduated from university, received citizenship, and volunteered, including helping Belarusian refugees. Roman’s detention could have been planned in advance by the Belarusian security forces.
Now he faces up to 15 years in prison.
She was detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.
Former head of the Republican Union of Tourist Organizations. Alexander Mirsky created the travel agency “Sakub” and then headed the company “Nova Tour”. He also headed the Republican Union of Tourist Organizations from 2008 to 2013 and from 2014 to 2019.
The detention of Mirsky became known in the winter of 2023 - this was described in a propaganda film on ONT. It was reported there that the man collaborated with Polish and Lithuanian intelligence services for 7 years, and is now under investigation and accused of treason.
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- Human rights activists
Nasta Loiko is a well-known Belarusian human rights activist. Nasta has been persecuted for her human rights activities; since August 2021, she has been a suspect in a criminal case related to the activities of the human rights organization Viasna.
On September 6, 2022, after attending a court hearing in the "Revolutionary Action" case, Nasta was convicted twice of "petty hooliganism" and spent 30 days in prison. Three weeks after her release, on October 28, 2022, Nasta was detained again. At the trial, Nasta reported torture (GUBOPiK officers hit her with a stun gun and, like the Central Inspectorate of the Criminal Code, left her in the cold for 8 hours without outerwear, which is why she fell ill). In custody at Okrestina, Nasta was without warm clothes and personal hygiene products.
On 28.11.2022 it became known that Nastya was sentenced again to 15 days under Article 19.1 "petty hooliganism". The fifth time this fall.
In mid-December, she was detained for the 6th time under the same article, and at the end of the month, she was charged under criminal articles and transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1. According to the prosecution, one of her human rights reports on the persecution of the anarchist community in Belarus in 2018 contains a negative assessment of the illegal actions of police officers, which became the basis for initiating a criminal case against her. The group against which other social hatred was allegedly incited is a professional social group of law enforcement officers. As human rights activists note, such an interpretation of the article does not comply with international human rights standards, as evidenced by the practice of international judicial bodies.
Almost at the beginning of the court hearing, the trial was closed.
On 03.10.2023, the appeal was considered.
In July 2025, it became known that Nastya Loiko was placed in a PKT (cell-type facility) for 6 months.
He was sentenced to imprisonment in the fall of 2022 for "insulting Lukashenko." The outcome of his appeal is unknown.
In June 2025, it became known that Vladimir had been detained. The details of the case are being investigated. In the fall, he was sentenced to imprisonment.
The Belarusian state TV channel reported that Alexander transferred about 800 US dollars to BYPOL in May 2021. It is worth noting that BYPOL was recognized as an extremist organization in November 2021, meaning that at the time of the transfer, the initiative was not extremist.
According to witnesses, Alexander was indeed offered compensation for the damage through a fund associated with the president. He agreed to such compensation in exchange for his release, but things did not go according to plan. Alexander was refused, and his money (about 30 bitcoins) was confiscated. The BYPOL organization was recognized as a "terrorist formation", and a new criminal case was opened against Alexander under the article "Financing terrorist activity".
On March 15, 2024, in the Minsk City Court, Judge Elena Shilkо issued a new sentence – 9 years of imprisonment. The waves of pardons that swept across the country did not affect the political prisoner.
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- Activists
- Parents of minors
- IT staff
A member of the Council of the public movement "Dzeya" was detained on November 3, 2020 and convicted in the case of hacking the computer system of the Minsk City Executive Committee.
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- Foreign citizens
- Associations
- Foreign citizens