Eugene Sergeevich Hitrik

Press Secretary of A1.

He was detained on December 10 and sentenced to administrative arrest. But after his release, he was not released. It is known that the security forces beat him.

After his arrest, a "repentant video" appeared on pro-government channels, in which he said that he allegedly passed on information related to his professional activities to third parties. But the company then stated that Nikolai did not have access to client data.

The trial was held behind closed doors, but it became known that Nikolai Bredelev was found not guilty under Part 2 of Article 424 of the Criminal Code (Abuse of power or official authority) and acquitted due to lack of evidence of participation in the commission of a crime.

He was accused of providing funds to deliberately support the activities of an extremist group (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code) — blogger Anton Motolko. Motolko denied this accusation.

He is expected to be released in June 2025.

Birch resident. According to the prosecution, on July 18, 2021, Govorko posted a video on his Instagram account, where he spoke about two policemen of the Berezovsky department of the Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. This video contains pictures of them. Govorko's actions were qualified as a crime under Article 369 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (insulting a representative of the authorities), since oral comments contained "an indecent, humiliating and negative assessment of the personalities of the victims" .

The court ruled to satisfy claims for moral damages in the amount of 1,500 Belarusian rubles to each policeman. Released at the end of March 2022 after the expiration of the sentence.

According to the indictment , Andrei Lomsha marked several publications with “offensive” statements with the “class” tag on the social network Odnoklassniki.

He was released at the end of 2024 .

Resident of Novogrudok. Detained for the comment “It’s time for us to take up arms.”

In January 2022, Ruslan was sentenced to three years in prison in a general regime colony.

On August 2, 2022, another trial of Ruslan Kuzmich took place under Art. 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a government official) and Art. 370 of the Criminal Code (outrage of state symbols).

On September 30, 2021, he was detained in Brest 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.

According to human rights activists, he was released at the beginning of February 2024 after the expiration of his sentence.

A former officer who condemned violence by security forces after the 2020 elections.

Alexander was detained in Stolin on September 29, 2021 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.

On August 22, 2023, he was released upon expiration of his sentence.

He was detained on September 29, 2021 in Brest 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.

During the trial, it turned out that charges for insulting Lukashenko were brought for a comment left on August 12, 2020 on the VKontakte social network. Then, under his own name, Dmitry commented on the news on the TUT.BY page.

At the trial, Dmitry made a full admission of guilt.

Released in August 2024 after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.

Daniil, a history student at the Belarusian State University, was detained on September 29, 2021, in Minsk in a criminal case opened for comments on the Internet after the death of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in a Minsk apartment.

Almost a year and a half later, he was found guilty of “inciting hatred or discord” and “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order.” The basis for the second charge was that during the protests, he bandaged the injured leg of a guy who had an injured ankle.

He was released in April 2023, having fully served his sentence.

Stepan was arrested in connection with the protests in Pinsk on the night of August 9-10, 2020, and convicted of participating in "mass riots." He was accused of attempting to hit police officers, as well as hitting a shield that hit the leg of police officer Polivoda.

At the trial, Stepan explained that he tried to pass by, but was pushed by a shield, he fell, and cut his knee. According to him, the gesture that looked like a throw on the video was actually an attempt to fix his sleeve.

He was released in February 2024, having served his entire sentence as determined by the court.

Convicted for comments under a photo of a government official and an employee of the authorities in the Odnoklassniki social network.

Vyacheslav was found guilty of damaging property and causing damage in the amount of 10 rubles 34 kopecks for painting a school fence, a kiosk, poles, and trees in a village on the outskirts of Mogilev with white and red stripes in December 2020.

He was released in the fall of 2021, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Vitaly was convicted for a comment about Lukashenko that investigators deemed offensive and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

In June 2022, he was placed in solitary confinement twice: the first time for five days, after which he was transferred to a new unit for "malicious violators of the regime," and a few days later for ten days. In July of that year, it was announced that Vitaly had been transferred to a cell-type facility for five months, remaining on his sentence.

He was released in December 2022, having fully served his sentence.

After his release, Vitaly left Belarus because, when he was registered, the first deputy head of the Kobrin District Department of Internal Affairs, Alexander Kosyak, threatened that next time he would be imprisoned with his wife.

In November 2023, it became known that a new criminal case had been opened against Vitaly for “assisting extremist activity.”

Alexey was arrested in March 2021 and convicted of "inciting hatred or discord" for comments on the social network VKontakte, with a prison sentence.

In September 2021, as part of a pardon, he was transferred from the penal colony to an open-type correctional facility. On November 29, 2021, it was announced that Alexei had left the penal colony and left Belarus.

In late October 2022, reports emerged of his detention in Russia. It was reported that Alexei first went to Smolensk to visit relatives, then moved to Belgorod, and after the war began, he moved to Voronezh, where he was detained by police. On October 26, 2022, he was transferred to Belarus, and in November, a court hearing was held, resulting in Alexei's detention being changed from an open correctional facility to a penal colony.

In August 2023, he was released, having fully served his sentence as imposed by the court.

Nikolai is a Belarusian politician and the chairman of the United Civil Party. He was first convicted on August 6, 2021, and sentenced to three months in jail for "disclosing investigative data in the Coordination Council case." He served his full sentence and was released on March 26, 2022.

On July 27, 2022, Nikolai was again detained in connection with a criminal case opened under the article "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them." According to the investigation, as stated by Sergei Pasko, head of the Investigative Committee's Minsk office, in August 2020, he allegedly took an active part in mass unrest in Minsk, directing the radical crowd, giving instructions to protesters, and calling for roadblocks and obstructing the movement of vehicles.

In November 2022, Nikolai was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment.

In July 2024, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.