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
Nikolai was convicted of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" and was sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open facility. The circumstances and details of the case are unknown.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in November 2025.
Vadim was convicted of "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or actively participating in them" and was sentenced to restricted freedom and placement in an open facility. The circumstances and details of the case are unknown.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in November 2025.
Has a higher legal education (BSU). Worked in the consulting company Parada+partners.
According to human rights activists, she was released on January 9, 2025, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
According to the indictment, Vladimir Lukyanchuk wrote an offensive comment in the telegram chat "Borodach Chat" on September 8, 2023. In the message, Alexander Grigorievich was called a word that means "chatterbox" (but in an obscene form).
According to human rights activists , he was released on September 12, 2024.
Detained along with other young people in Baranovichi (at the end of December 2023).
The court's press service announced the verdict (without naming names, but the circumstances fit this group of people). The charges were briefly stated: they were on the roadway in Baranovichi, shouting slogans, displaying white-red-white flags, and "intentionally obstructing traffic and the normal functioning of businesses and organizations." The exact date of the protests wasn't even specified, simply being referred to as "August 2020."
Thus, in 2024, 25 Baranovichi residents were sentenced for the August 2020 protests. All were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 1 to 3 years (the only exception was a woman with a child under 3, who received a suspended sentence).
He was scheduled to be released on October 27 , 2025.
Detained along with other young people in Baranovichi (at the end of December 2023).
According to human rights activists , he was released on August 8, 2024.
Detained along with other young people in Baranavichy (late December 2023).
Dmitry stood at the origins of the development of breakdancing in the city, was a member of the FSC, B-BAXSTER, "Vauki" teams, and also won the Belarusian breakdancing championship "Voice of the Streets". Now Mikhaltsevich teaches children and adults how to breakdance.
Alexander is accused of participating in protests and of being involved with the "Pismo.bel" service, which allowed people to send letters to political prisoners. His brother, artist Vladimir Lykshin, was detained along with him.
According to preliminary information from former cellmates, the brothers are charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
On March 18, 2024, the Sovietsky District Court of Minsk held a trial for the brothers, as well as Alexander's wife, Elizaveta . Judge Alexander Yakunchikhin sentenced them all to 2.5 years of house arrest.
Was detained again at the end of 2024 under Part 1 of Article 361. Before the trial, he was held in ST-8, then in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1, and awaited appeal in ST-4.
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
- Associations
- Parents of minors
A father of many children, allegedly arrested for administering the "Ivatsevichi Solidarity" chat in 2020.
Worked as a taxi driver.
In addition to imprisonment, Vitaly was sentenced to a fine of 40,000 rubles.
On May 3, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
The man was accused of writing several Internet comments about A. Lukashenko, which were considered a "public insult." The hearing took place at the Baranovichi State College of Light Industry. As a result, Tatsin was sentenced to 1 year in prison and handcuffed in front of college students, according to a report on state television.
On 30.01.2024, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
Oleg was accused of desecration of state symbols (flag).
On January 16, 2024, Oleg’s appeal was heard.
According to human rights activists, he was released on June 3, 2024, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
1 year of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
- Associations
- Retirees
Okolotovich was arrested at a cemetery. The KGB lured the priest there by tricking him into coming there: they called him and told him a woman had died and needed a Catholic burial. At the cemetery, they handcuffed him and placed a black helmet on his head so no one could see who was being taken or where.
Two of his parishioners, a man and a woman, were detained at the same time. They spent approximately nine months in a KGB pretrial detention center, where they were forced to testify about the priest's alleged meetings with foreign diplomats.
The charges ultimately brought against Okolotovich were outlandish: he allegedly somehow diverted Russian and Belarusian air force planes in the opposite direction, thereby causing damage not only to Belarus but also to the Russian Aerospace Forces—a total of one million euros. Upon his arrest, approximately 270,000 euros were confiscated from him—mostly parish funds, not the priest's personal funds. This sum was applied toward the debt, and the remainder was claimed as additional payment in Belarusian rubles.
By that time, Okolotovich had already been under surveillance for a long time, but nothing could be found that would prove espionage.
The priest became the latest religious figure to be affected by the regime's repression of religious communities in Belarus.
Genrikh suffered a heart attack and recently underwent stomach surgery for cancer. He requires medical supervision and constant medication. He slept on the floor and boards for over a year; he was only moved to a bunk bed before the trial.
The KGB offered Okolotovych a special condition for his release. Upon returning to Volozhin, he was to invite the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to a church service and discreetly hand him a flash drive containing incriminating evidence—a pretext to discredit the diplomat. At the time, Ante Jozic was the nuncio to Belarus. This provocation against the nuncio wasn't the only one: according to Krylov, the KGB proposed similar scenarios against other foreign diplomats, primarily Polish ones. The priest refused everything: "I am completely imbued with God's ecclesiastical purposes. And what you demand of me is a crime. I cannot betray God."
In November 2025, he was pardoned after a visit to Belarus by the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, 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.
The court hearing took place on October 30, 2023.
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
