Eugene Sergeevich Hitrik
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.
List of repressed
Vyacheslav was accused of "uttering phrases degrading the honor and dignity" of A. Lukashenko while intoxicated and in the presence of police officers. Recordings from the police officers' dashcams were later used in court as evidence of Solodkiy's guilt. It is not specified what words Vyacheslav used.
On 18.08.2024, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the winter of 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
Safanovich was accused of writing messages in a Telegram chat on October 25, 2020, calling for road closures. According to the prosecution and the court, in his first message, Safanovich "called for active participation in group actions in the Luninets district that grossly violate public order," i.e. Safanovich allegedly committed a crime under Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Safanovich was also charged under Part 1 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, i.e. public slander against Lukashenko. As follows from the article of the state publication, Safanovich wrote a second message in the same chat on August 13, 2020, under a photo of a tearful woman leaving Okrestina. The caption to the video was as follows : "Confession of a Belarusian girl who was in the dungeons of Lukashenko's Gestapo. Do I understand correctly that Lukashenko became the second after Hitler to attack the people of Belarus?"
On July 18, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released on December 23, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
1 year imprisonment in a general regime colony
Convicted of insulting Lukashenko.
On June 20, 2023, an appellate court hearing was held, and the verdict came into force.
At the beginning of June 2024 he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years in prison.
He was detained on January 9, 2023 as part of a criminal case opened in Brest based on the events of September 13, 2020, when during a protest, people danced in a circle on the roadway (the so-called “round dance case”).
According to human rights activists, he was released in May 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
1.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions
- Associations
- Journalists
Editor-in-Chief of the Regional Newspaper.
"Regionalnaya Gazeta" is an independent publication covering events in four districts of the Minsk region (Molodechno, Vileika, Myadel and Volozhin) and three districts of the Grodno region (Smorgon, Oshmyany, Ostrovets).
In 2022, the site's materials were deemed "extremist materials." Law enforcement officials say the man will be tried for the texts he published.
On 23.01.2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
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 Alexander Mantsevich.
Anatoly came to Belarus to be examined: he was diagnosed with cancer.
At first, the man was convicted under administrative article 19.11 (distribution of extremist materials) before his arrest. But even before the end of this arrest, he was charged under article 368 of the Criminal Code for insulting Lukashenko, and put in prison.
10.23.2023 released after expiration of sentence.
1 year of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
Evgeny Vasilevsky was detained almost a year ago in Moscow, from March 25 to April 7, 2022, he was sentenced to administrative arrest under Article 24.23 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding mass events).
The essence of the accusation is still unknown. Probably, we are talking about the transfer of personal data of security forces to protest chats.
In the fall of 2023, he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
According to the prosecution , Yevgeny, while at his place of residence, posted a message of offensive content regarding Alexander Lukashenko in a Telegram group on March 1, 2022. This follows from the conclusion of a forensic linguistic examination.
Previously, the man was brought to administrative responsibility for storing information products of an extremist nature on his mobile phone.
On 24.03.2024, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists , he was released on January 25, 2025.
- Associations
- Retirees
Natalia was first convicted in January 2023 for an online comment under the article "insulting a government official" and sentenced to one and a half years of restricted freedom, known as "house arrest."
In September of that year, Natalia was arrested again and convicted on a new criminal charge, accused of "financing extremist activity" for supporting political prisoners through money transfers.
On December 13, 2025, she was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Grigory returned to Belarus in March 2022, where he was detained. The reason for the return was the mother's illness (cancer was found), and then the cancer was found in the father.
Grigory has not been in Belarus for a year and a half: since the end of November 2020. As he told the court, the reason for his departure was the inability to find a job in his specialty, as well as the need to deal with the documents of his grandmother (a citizen of Ukraine, but there is a Belarusian residence permit).
The man was convicted for participating in protest actions in Brest in 2020 (in the case of round dances).
During the trial , it was established that in January 2022, Korsak posted a photo of Alexander Lukashenko with icons on his personal page on the Odnoklassniki social network, and also published an image of Nazi symbols in the colors of the national flag of the Republic of Belarus.
At the court hearing, the man explained that he understood the meaning of the posted image and did so consciously.
According to human rights activists, he was released on December 6, 2024, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
Alice is accused of one telegram message written on the evening of February 28, 2022 (on the 4th day of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine).
The comment was written in the telegram chat «Belaruski Gayun Chat» (a chat associated with the channel Belaruski Gayun», which tracked the movement of Russian troops on the territory of Belarus). The text contains the word «rats», and the state prosecution interprets this as referring to Lukashenko. In addition, at the trial, the prosecutor pointed out that this word is profanity.
According to human rights activists, she was released on August 18, 2023 after the expiration of her sentence.
1 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Retirees
Natalia was accused of making a repost on her publication page with the personal data of an employee of the internal affairs bodies. The woman also posted a photo of the security officer with her own comment about the crimes committed by him. The court decided that the information in the comment was deliberately false and discredited the employee in the eyes of society.
According to human rights activists, she was released upon expiration of her sentence.
Denis is accused of taking part in protests in Minsk, as well as distributing extremist materials and insulting Lukashenko.
After the trial, it became known that another case was opened against Denis for participating in protests in 2020.
In May 2023, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Denis under Art. 342 part 1 and transferred to pre-trial detention center-1. On November 17, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the second verdict came into force.
2.5 years of imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions.
