Guilty of all the atrocities that took place in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 6. These include beatings of detainees, including children, in the first days after the election, abuse of defendants in the Pinsk case and other political prisoners. Separately, it is worth noting the multiple violations of the rights of supporters of change serving administrative arrest. These people were beaten, deprived of parcels and letters, and kept in overcrowded cells.
Guilty of all the atrocities that took place in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 6. These include beatings of detainees, including children, in the first days after the election, abuse of defendants in the Pinsk case and other political prisoners. Separately, it is worth noting the multiple violations of the rights of supporters of change serving administrative arrest. These people were beaten, deprived of parcels and letters, and kept in overcrowded cells.
The girl posted her last photo on social media on November 18, 2024, from Turkey. After that, she went to Belarus — that’s probably when she was detained. She hasn’t appeared online on Telegram for a long time, and her social media has been inactive since November. The girl is probably now in a pretrial detention center.
After graduating from MSLU, Veronica worked for three years as a flight attendant at Qatar Airways. Veronica's other passion is modeling and acting.
In mid-August 2025, information appeared that Veronica was already at large. She posted a photo from the Philippines.
Trial outcome 04.03.2025
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
On January 16, 2024, the KGB made a decision to recognize the "Fund of Belarus Friend LTD" as an "extremist organization." The department's decision listed people who were allegedly related to the fund: Belarusians Oleg Stefanovich and Alexander Syritsa, as well as Estonian Allan Royo.
On June 21, 2025, Allan was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's Special Representative, Keith Kellogg.
Dmitry, 51, worked in the Belarusian OMON in the 1990s as a driver with the rank of junior lieutenant. But he quit in 1997 of his own free will. Recently, Dmitry worked as a driver in a private company.
In November 2020, the man was sentenced to 15 days in jail for participating in a protest.
Little is known about Dmitry's daughter, 26-year-old Elizaveta. The girl was born and until recently lived in Minsk.
Trial outcome 16.01.2025
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Little is known about 26-year-old Elizaveta. The girl was born and until recently lived in Minsk.
Her father worked in the Belarusian OMON in the 90s as a driver with the rank of junior lieutenant. But he quit in 1997 of his own free will. Recently, Dmitry worked as a driver in a private company.
In November 2020, the man was sentenced to 15 days in jail for participating in a protest.
Trial outcome 16.01.2025
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Lyubov was detained along with her mother during a mass raid in Belarus on October 31 in connection with the Yard Chat Case.
Lyuba is a single mother and has a six-year-old daughter. A relative has taken custody of the daughter during Lyuba's imprisonment.
While in pretrial detention (for almost a year), Lyuba was diagnosed with cancer. Despite this, her pretrial detention was not changed and she remained in custody until her trial. She was the only defendant in her case to be sentenced to home confinement, as she urgently needed chemotherapy. All the others received sentences ranging from 2.5 to 3 years in prison.
Trial outcome 14.10.2025
3 years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
After the war in Ukraine began, the man went to Georgia for a while. But, apparently, he later returned to Belarus, the publication writes.
When and under what circumstances he was detained , as well as the details of the charges, have not yet been disclosed.
Silenko graduated from BNTU in 2012, where he received the profession of architect. He is also known as a drummer and participant of musical projects such as OH. RA, BULVAR, Mnsr. Gustav and others.
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 Alexei Silenko.
Trial outcome 27.11.2024
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Participant of national, international and personal exhibitions. Member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Belarus. The artist's works are in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Webkunsthaus Gallery of Germany, private collections in the USA, Italy, France, Russia, Holland, Ireland, Poland, Japan, Greece, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Australia, Germany. Rimashevsky and his wife Lyudmila Shchemeleva were detained around the beginning of October 2024 and two weeks later they were still not released.
She was released together with her husband after serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year 2 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
In 1987 he graduated from the Academy of Arts in Minsk. Since 1982 he has been a participant of national and international exhibitions. His paintings are in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Art Fund of the Republic of Belarus, the Webkunsthaus Gallery in Germany, the Schaer und Wildbolc Gallery in Switzerland, as well as in private collections in England, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Holland, France, Spain, Israel, Russia, Switzerland, Poland, Turkey, Italy, Japan, Ukraine, the USA, China, the Czech Republic, Syria, and Lebanon.
Rimashevsky and his wife Lyudmila Shchemeleva were detained around the beginning of October 2024 and two weeks later they were still not released.
He was released together with his wife after serving the sentence imposed by the court.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year 2 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
A former journalist for Media-Polesye, Yevgeny was severely beaten during the protests.
On August 10, 2020, Yevgeny went to the protests as a journalist. He was detained , first beaten by police in the Pinsk City Executive Committee restroom, then in a police van. He was then taken to the Pinsk City Police Department's shooting range, where Ales Romanovich saw him badly beaten. He was then placed in the Pinsk temporary detention facility, and then taken to the pretrial detention center of the Ivatsevichi colony, where security forces had housed some of the detainees.
A week after the beating, the journalist still had bruises. It was reported that traces of the beating remained on his face even a month later, including deep scars. Media-Polesye also reported at the time that its employee had suffered an eye injury.
According to human rights activists , he was released in the fall of 2025, having fully served his sentence.
Pro-government Telegram channels claim that the girl had been abroad for several years.
In the "repentance video" she was forced to talk about how difficult it was for her in other countries of the world where she traveled, so she "made the decision to return to the territory of the Republic of Belarus in order to continue to live, work, develop and start a family on our Belarusian land."
Trial outcome 24.10.2024
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Alexander is a Pinsk resident, he was accused of participating in a protest that took place on the night of August 9-10, 2020 in Pinsk (at that time he was a minor). The arrest took place in the spring of 2024. He was released from the courtroom on September 5, 2024 before the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 05.09.2024
2 years restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Dmitry was arrested and convicted of “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order” in a criminal case opened after the August 2020 protests against the results of the presidential election.
According to the prosecution, on the night of August 9-10, 2020, Dmitry, “being on the roadway and acting in a group of people, shouted slogans, demonstrated white-red-white banners, deliberately obstructed the movement of vehicles and the work of organizations, thereby taking an active part in group actions that grossly violated public order and were accompanied by disobedience to the legal demands of government officials.”
According to human rights activists , he will be released in the summer of 2025.
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