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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was detained on September 29, 2021 in Minsk in a criminal case initiated for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.
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director of the news agency BelaPAN. On the morning of August 18, 2021, they came to her with a search. Then they took me to the agency's office for a search, and then for interrogation. Searches also took place at the homes of other BelaPAN journalists.
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Artem, a student, was first detained and severely beaten after a protest, the Pensioners' March, in November 2020. He was then sentenced to 15 days under an administrative article.
However, on March 24, 2021, during the days of mass preventive detentions before Freedom Day, he was arrested again early in the morning in a dormitory, allegedly because of a flag he had spotted, and sentenced to 25 days of administrative arrest. But the very next day, a video appeared on the Telegram channel of the propagandist Azarenka, in which Artem confessed to administering the public page. It later became known that he was beaten with truncheons to force him to record this confession.
He was never released, as a criminal case was opened against him. Artem was subsequently convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order" and "creation of an extremist group."
Released in January 2025 as part of a pardon.
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Nikolai, a blogger, journalist and anarchist activist, was detained on November 11, 2020, by GUBOPiK and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. During his detention, he was beaten, pepper sprayed in his eyes and forced to appear in a video for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After his detention, Nikolai was tortured, demanding access to Telegram channels.
He was convicted on charges of organizing protests and extremism. In prison, he was repeatedly punished: sent to solitary confinement, punishment cells, and restricted in communication. In 2023, Nikolai continued to receive penalties for minor violations. In 2024, a new case was opened against him under the article for "disobeying the demands of the administration of a correctional institution" - it is applied to prisoners who refuse to cooperate, for fictitious violations.
In October 2024, it became known that he had been in a punishment cell (SHIZO) for the fourth month.
On September 11, 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 Nikolai Dziadok.