Andrey Viktorovich Kovalchuk
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Andrey Viktorovich Kovalchuk
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Andrei Viktorovich Kovalchuk supports Lukashenko’s regime and politically motivated repressions.
He considered the appeals of political prisoners, but did not satisfy any of them.
Participated in the consideration of the appeal of political prisoner Mykola Dziado. The activist was sentenced under three articles of the Criminal Code: Articles 342, 361, and 295-3. The man was sentenced to five years in prison to be served under general regime conditions. Kovalchuk left the verdict unchanged.
Accomplice in crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Andrei Viktorovich Kovalchuk supports Lukashenko’s regime and politically motivated repressions.
He considered the appeals of political prisoners, but did not satisfy any of them.
Participated in the consideration of the appeal of political prisoner Mykola Dziado. The activist was sentenced under three articles of the Criminal Code: Articles 342, 361, and 295-3. The man was sentenced to five years in prison to be served under general regime conditions. Kovalchuk left the verdict unchanged.
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| 13.11.2022 | I received a letter from Andrey that he was being transferred from Volodarka (and the package was returned), but I don’t know where exactly |
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Journalist, he was detained on May 26, 2022 after a search.
At the moment, the journalist has been charged, but the exact criminal article with which Lyubenchuk is accused is unknown (the lawyer is under a non-disclosure agreement).
In early November 2023, it became known that Ales had begun to have problems with his spine behind bars (a year ago). "It is difficult for him to even do sports, which is what everyone does to save themselves. This noticeably upsets him," a source told Radio Svaboda. Ales worked stripping wires of insulation.
He was released in early January 2025.
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Dmitry, the former director of the BelaPAN news agency, was detained on August 18, 2021, following a search and questioning by the Investigative Committee. He was initially placed in pretrial detention for 72 hours as part of a criminal case under the article "organizing or preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or participating in them." However, he was not released and was transferred to a pretrial detention center 10 days later. The charge was later amended to tax evasion.
In November 2021, it was revealed that Dmitry had also been charged with "creating an extremist group." In October 2022, he was found guilty of "participating in an extremist group" and "tax evasion," sentenced to imprisonment, imposed a large fine, and banned from holding certain positions for five years.
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Irina graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of BSU and in recent years was engaged in her own small business related to flowers and souvenir production. She was detained on January 12, 2021, along with Andrey Alexandrov. Irina was accused of "financing protest activities" and paying fines to protesters. She was convicted of "treason" and "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order."
On September 1, 2022, the couple got married in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1.
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Belarusian journalist Andrei, detained on January 12, 2021, along with his girlfriend Irina Zlobina, was accused of "financing protest activities" and paying fines to protesters. He was convicted on a number of criminal charges, including "treason" and "participation in an extremist group."
On September 1, 2022, the couple got married in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1.
German language translator.
Sergei was arrested in August 2024 and convicted in October of that year of "financing extremist activity." He was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Leader of the liquidated Green Party.
Dmitry Kuchuk was detained near the Russian embassy, where the politician came to lay flowers, regarding the murder of Alexei Navalny. He tried to register during the “hopelessness” campaign, and made efforts to start a campaign to collect signatures for the release of political prisoners.
Dmitry Kuchuk became the seventh leader of the Green Party to be jailed.
On September 1, 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 Dmitry Kuchuk.
Artem is from Rogachev and studied at Gomel State Technical University. A few years ago the guy moved to Minsk and recently worked as a waiter.
In a “repentance” video published in mid-March, Artem said that he was detained “for moderating the 97% Serebryanka chat.” But the channel was recognized as an “extremist formation” only on May 30, 2023.
He began to be tried in the Minsk City Court on August 29, 2023 under Part 1 of Art. 361-1 of the Criminal Code (Creation of an extremist formation).
He was detained for a chat-roulette conversation with Yuri Komar.
During the conversation, he asked Ukrainians for weapons, and to Komar's question: «Are you going to kill supporters of the current government?»; he answered: «Yes».
Dmitry was detained together with a friend — white-red-white flags were put on their heads, and then they were forced to wash the floor with these flags.
An appeal hearing was held on September 19, 2023. The verdict came into force.
Alexander was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk, and was sentenced to imprisonment in November 2022.
He was released in 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus in the 2020 elections. After the announcement of the official results, protests began. Tikhanovskaya announced the usurpation of power by the incumbent president and called for new and fair elections. On August 11, 2020, Tikhanovskaya left Belarus. Her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, a blogger and politician, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Pavel Latushko, Olga Kovalkova, Maria Moroz, Sergei Dylevsky were tried in the same criminal case. In total, they were charged with 12 articles.
On January 11, Svyatlana Tikhanovskaya applied to the Minsk City Court demanding that she be granted the right to familiarize herself with the materials of the case in her trial in absentia. She also notified the court that she was going to exercise her right to a lawyer. She also wrote to the Minsk City and Republican Bar Associations that she wanted to contact the lawyer assigned to her and work out a position.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya stressed that she considers the procedure of trial in absentia a violation of basic human rights and freedoms.
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Artist, former head of the creative community "Pogonya". He was detained in August 2022 and sentenced to 15 days of arrest. It later became known that a criminal case was opened against Gennady for participating in protests in 2020.
According to human rights activists , he was released on February 26, 2025.
He was detained in the winter of 2022. The man is accused of leaving the following comment on VKontakte under a message about a fatal shootout between KGB officer Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrey Zeltser last September while in Zhlobin: "The people have opened an account." This comment was later interpreted as "a call to fight law enforcement agencies." He had previously been convicted several times for drug trafficking.
On October 28, 2022, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
He is expected to be released on April 3, 2025.
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A Gomel activist, organizer of travel, rafting, walking, was detained by a special purpose police detachment in his house on the morning of March 1, 2022.
Six members of the special purpose police unit participated in the arrest, who used physical force, laying Igor face to the floor.