Eugene Sergeevich Hitrik

The reasons for Genrikh's detention are unknown, but it appears the priest has become the latest religious figure to be affected by the regime's repression of religious communities in Belarus.

Henry suffered a heart attack and recently underwent stomach surgery due to cancer; he requires medical supervision and constant medication.

December 6 marked 20 days since the arrest of Father Genrikh Okolotovich, the rector of the parish. During this time, he was expected to either be charged with a criminal offense or released. According to sources at Katolik.life, the priest was remanded in custody, meaning he was charged.

The specific article of the Criminal Code has not yet been named, but the 20-day period for filing charges from the moment of arrest is stipulated for a number of "anti-state" articles, such as espionage and treason. However, the exact charges against the priest remain unknown.

In November 2025, he was pardoned after a visit to Belarus by Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, as a special envoy of Pope Leo XIV.

State TV reported on the details of the trials of the two men (Borisov Vadim Sergeevich and Volk Oleg Aleksandrovich). The voiceover said that one of the men, drunk, tore a state flag off a store on the evening of September 8, 2023 in the village of Novaya Mysh (Baranovichi district), damaging the fastening. He put the flag in a backpack and took it home. The police came for the man in the morning.

On 19.01.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists , he was released on June 9, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

On August 09, 2023, he was detained at an airport in the Russian Federation when he tried to fly to Georgia through Russia. Soon he was handed over to Belarusian law enforcement agencies and Alexander was taken into custody.

On December 15, 2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

On November 17, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force. However, on December 4, 2023, a new court hearing was held under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

On February 13, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.

According to the prosecution, after viewing a photograph posted in the public domain on Odnoklassniki with fixed text, where the honor and dignity of Lukashenko’s personality was humiliated in an indecent form and he was accused of committing a particularly serious crime (murder), Kozlovskaya posted the photograph on her page on the same social network, open for free viewing and copying to an unlimited circle of readers.

In court, Olga said that she sent a letter to Alexander Lukashenko, in which she apologized to him.

According to human rights activists, she was released in December 2023 upon expiration of her sentence.

Convicted for his comments. Alexander has two minor daughters.

According to human rights activists , he was released in the summer of 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

On 21.11.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, he was released in February 2025.

According to the prosecution , Andrei Kholupko, using a mobile phone on the Odnoklassniki social network, in 2020, 2021 and 2023, put four likes on caricatured images of Alexander Lukashenko, in which he was shown as a clown, a monkey, and also together with Vladimir Putin in the pit, thereby publicly, in the public domain, insulted the president.

At the trial, Kholupko indicated that by liking he did not think that this was an insult, he added that no one paid him money for this and he acted impulsively.

On February 24, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Sergei is 37 years old. Has a minor daughter. Presumably he was detained on 06/08/2023.

According to the indictment , Sergei Korsak on his page on the Odnoklassniki social network several times posted an image with text “defaming the honor and dignity” of Lukashenko.

On October 20, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, on March 22, 2024, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

It is known that Adasko was detained in early May 2023, a protocol was drawn up under Art. 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production, distribution or storage of extremist materials) and awarded an administrative arrest. He did not go free after his arrest.

Other details of the case are not yet known.

On July 25, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict has entered into force.

Oleg was tried for having painted several walls in the entrance of a multi-story building in February 2023. The inscriptions contained insults to A. Lukashenko.

Kardash was detained for the first time in March 2023. He was tried three times under administrative articles. Each time, he was sentenced to "24 hours." The first trial took place on March 9, 2023, because a video from August 2020 with the TUT.BY logo was found on the man's Odnoklassniki social network. The second trial took place on March 17, because cutting boards with "an image of a dog in a helmet with the SS emblem, a board with an image of a man in a helmet with the SS emblem" were found at the man's home - that is, Kardash allegedly "stored items with Nazi symbols for the purpose of distribution." The third trial took place on March 29 because he shared a video on the Odnoklassniki social network: the video had the Nexta logo (there was a brutal suppression of the Minsk protests that took place on the night of August 9-10, 2020). Kardash shared this video on August 14, 2020.

On September 12, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists , he was released in October 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.

Svetlana was first convicted under an administrative article for “distribution, production, storage, transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities,” after which a criminal case was opened against her for insulting A.G. Lukashenko.

According to the materials of the prosecution in the criminal case, Svetlana on her page in Odnoklassniki allegedly “placed a publication and video with a screensaver containing deliberately false information about Alexander Lukashenko, associated with accusing him of committing especially serious crimes, such as “murder”, “treason” state”, which do not correspond to reality and discredit its authority in the eyes of the public."

According to human rights activists, she will be released in early spring 2024 after fully serving her sentence.

Olga was first convicted under an administrative article for "distributing, manufacturing, storing, transporting information products containing calls for extremist activities or promoting such activities", after which a criminal case was opened against her for insulting Lukashenka A.G.