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
According to human rights activists , the son of politician Anatoly Lebedko is accused of financing extremist activities. Artem was detained in late March and subsequently sentenced to two 15-day arrests, after which he was charged and transferred to Pretrial Detention Center No. 1.
According to the prosecution, in 2020, "motivated by ideological hatred," Lebedko made several money transfers over the phone using a bank account to three foundations designated as "extremist groups." The funds were reportedly transferred through the payment system of the popular social network Facebook. These foundations allegedly include BY_help and the Belarusian Sports Solidarity Foundation.
At the trial, the political prisoner did not admit guilt and stated that he did not at all understand the essence of the charges brought against him and did not understand why he was in the dock.
On October 31, 2023, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.
In July 2026, he was released , having fully served his sentence.
Viktor Lameko, a businessman from Zelva, was brutally detained and beaten during his arrest. Initially, he was charged under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus (dissemination of extremist materials). Without even allowing Lameko to leave the courthouse, security forces detained him again and again charged him under Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus. While he was in pretrial detention, a third charge was filed against him.
As it became known , the businessman is in pretrial detention, he has already been charged under the criminal article for slander against Lukashenko A.G.
While the man was in pretrial detention, his mother died.
Viktor sued the tax authorities and defended entrepreneurs from the Grodno region in court.
The appeal was heard on October 24, 2023. The verdict entered into force.
According to human rights activists, he will be released at the end of 2025.
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An activist from Baranovichi, Igor has a third-degree disability due to a traffic accident 10 years ago that resulted in his leg being amputated. He was arrested on February 23, 2023, sentenced to 15 days in prison, and then transferred to a pretrial detention facility on criminal charges.
According to the investigation, between May 1, 2020, and May 23, 2022, Shumilov published four posts on Odnoklassniki containing satirical images, which the investigation considered insulting Lukashenko and government officials, as well as slandering Lukashenko. One of the images depicts Lukashenko and the aforementioned individuals as prisoners being held in a prison cell. At his trial, Igor fully admitted his guilt. He explained that the posts appeared on his page only after he "liked" them. He himself did not understand at the time that these images could be considered insulting.
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).
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
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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.
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One of the most prominent Belarusian-language bloggers of the 2000s and a former activist. He was arrested for participating in protests in 2020.
Ivan was detained on January 5, 2023, received 13 days of administrative arrest, and was charged with a criminal offense on January 18.
On April 17, 2024 , he was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
In June 2025, it became known that Ivan had been arrested again, this time for a comment under Article 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
In March 2026, he was released , having fully served his sentence.
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.
The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) arrested brother and sister Mikhail and Alexandra Alexandrovich Razuvanovfor participating in protests . According to GUBOPiK, Mikhail and Alexandra participated in post-election protests in 2020. According to security officials, a criminal case has been opened against the brother and sister.
On June 23, 2023, an appeal court hearing was held, and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, Mikhail was again detained in Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 in April 2024. This may be related to a new criminal case.
It is known that Mikhail was released.
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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.
