Nikolay Nikolaevich Gladki
Considers appeals against sentences behind closed doors. Conducts politically motivated trials against activists and protest participants. He sentenced German Bykhov to 3 years in prison for words on the Internet. He called the phrase “Long Live Belarus” “extremist.”
Considers appeals against sentences behind closed doors. Conducts politically motivated trials against activists and protest participants. He sentenced German Bykhov to 3 years in prison for words on the Internet. He called the phrase “Long Live Belarus” “extremist.”
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Ivan, who has two higher educations, previously worked as an artist-designer and then became an animator, director and video editor. He is also an artist and author of short stories. On October 21, 2020, he was detained and convicted on charges of posting calls for destabilization of public order on a Telegram channel, including arson of the KGB and Oshmyany District Prosecutor's Office buildings.
In December 2022, he was retried for "disobeying the demands of the administration." In May 2024, Ivan was again convicted of "malicious disobedience" and additionally imprisoned for 2 years.
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An individual entrepreneur was detained and convicted under three criminal articles for participating in an event that occurred during the dispersal of people on October 11, 2020, near the Pushkinskaya metro station.
In April 2022, Ivan was convicted again for participating in a protest, but this did not affect his final sentence. However, in November of the same year, he was given another year of imprisonment, convicted of "disobeying the demands of the administration of the correctional facility."
In September 2023, he was sentenced to an additional 3 years in prison for "violence against an official."
In March 2024, he was transferred to prison for 3 years.
There are no details of the criminal case yet, it is only known that the Mogilev resident left a comment about Lukashenko in one of the telegram channels recognized by the authorities of the Republic of Belarus as “extremist”.
On January 11, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict entered into force.
In early September, the Telegram channel of the volunteer initiative "Lists of Detainees" published information about the detention of an entire family: Yan, Anastasia, and Ales Papkovich.
Special forces stormed Yan's apartment. During the arrest, the officers fired a shot from an automatic weapon and wounded the dog, which had started barking at them.
Yan spent a month in a KGB pretrial detention center, where he was tortured and unable to walk. BT reports portrayed Yan as a mercenary planning to go to Ukraine. It is known that Yan pleaded not guilty at his trial. One of the witnesses stated that "they pressured him, and he signed whatever they told him." As evidence of Yan's guilt, the investigation presented his private correspondence with his wife, as well as with friends who, according to investigators, serve in Kalinovsky's regiment in Ukraine.
Yan worked as a cash collector at Belgazprombank.
In March 2024 and April 2025, Yana was convicted twice under the article “malicious disobedience to the legal demands of the colony administration,” and in total, another year of imprisonment was added to her existing sentence.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Dmitry is the son of a public activist from Rechitsa, Oleg Shabetnik, who headed the Gomel regional branch of the public organization “Tell the Truth”.
On his page on the social network VKontakte, Dmitry posted links to news about Russian military aggression against Ukraine, which the investigation classified as "incitement of hatred."
On September 10, 2024, he was released , having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
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German was detained by GUBOPiK officers in March 2021. During the detention, he was severely beaten, his teeth were knocked out, thereby forcing him to write a confession. It is also known that a week before the detention, German's father, who had a disability, died. He was convicted under the article on "inciting hatred or discord" for two comments left on Telegram in August 2020.
He was released in November 2023, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
