Angela Evgenievna Kostyukevich
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Angela Evgenievna Kostyukevich
For political reasons, fines were issued in the amount of 15,440 rubles and 361 days of administrative arrest.
Tried political prisoners: Artur Khatko, Vitaly Shcherbich, Mikhail Ferents, Yuri Sergei, Andrei Popov, Yan Nikishin, Nikita Kochur, Yuri Karnilovich, Kirill Kazei, Alexei Zikeev, Andrei Asaul.
On March 15, 2022, she sentenced the editor-in-chief of Nasha Niva Yegor Martinovich and the head of the marketing department Andrey Skurko to 2.5 years in prison. Previously, they were recognized as political prisoners. Prosecutor - Nikolai Dyatel.
“Nashanivtsy” were accused of causing property damage by prior conspiracy (Part 2 of Article 216 of the Criminal Code) for paying for utilities in an office apartment at tariffs for individuals, not legal entities. They paid off the damage before the trial, Minskvodokanal and Minskenergo withdrew their claims.
For political reasons, fines were issued in the amount of 15,440 rubles and 361 days of administrative arrest.
Tried political prisoners: Artur Khatko, Vitaly Shcherbich, Mikhail Ferents, Yuri Sergei, Andrei Popov, Yan Nikishin, Nikita Kochur, Yuri Karnilovich, Kirill Kazei, Alexei Zikeev, Andrei Asaul.
On March 15, 2022, she sentenced the editor-in-chief of Nasha Niva Yegor Martinovich and the head of the marketing department Andrey Skurko to 2.5 years in prison. Previously, they were recognized as political prisoners. Prosecutor - Nikolai Dyatel.
“Nashanivtsy” were accused of causing property damage by prior conspiracy (Part 2 of Article 216 of the Criminal Code) for paying for utilities in an office apartment at tariffs for individuals, not legal entities. They paid off the damage before the trial, Minskvodokanal and Minskenergo withdrew their claims.
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Vladislav, a blogger, poet and writer, was arrested in April 2021 and convicted a year later of fraud for promising more than 100 people in 2015–2016 to take part in Belarus’s first reality shows, but failing to keep his promise. He was also found guilty of participating in three Marches in 2020 and organizing protests via Instagram. Vladislav himself only admitted to participating in the rallies.
In October 2022, he was convicted again for insulting Lukashenko in a poem included in an appeal against the verdict.
On the portal of the online store Ridero.ru, under the pseudonym Vlad Savinn, his books are presented - the story "Ambidextrous" and the collection of poems "Poetry Through", available in printed and electronic form.
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Yuri was detained and convicted on several counts, including illegal possession of a bladed weapon. It all started with a video of a BMW driver beating up a man with a white-red-white flag. The video went viral on social media, and the address of the driver, Dmitry Davydyuk, was published. According to investigators, three Minsk residents decided to "teach" the driver a lesson by puncturing his car's tires.
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Kirill was detained on October 28, 2020, and subjected to abuse, threats, and bullying by law enforcement officers. He was later convicted of several criminal charges, including illegal possession of ammunition, which was allegedly planted in his car after his arrest.
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Maksim Yermolovich is 31 years old. He comes from the village of Stayki (most likely, Baranovichi district). He graduated from the mechanical engineering and technology department of the Belarusian National Technical University.
The security forces reported his arrest in January 2023. At that time, they claimed that the guy had fallen for a fake mailing of the “victory” plan, which was carried out by the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption.
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- Parents of minors
Citizen of Estonia.
On January 16, 2024, the KGB made a decision to recognize the "Fund of Belarus Friend LTD" as an "extremist organization." The department's decision listed people who were allegedly related to the fund: Belarusians Oleg Stefanovich and Alexander Syritsa, as well as Estonian Allan Royo.
On June 21, 2025, Allan was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's Special Representative, Keith Kellogg.
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Nakanishi Masatoshi is a Japanese citizen. On September 4, 2024, it was reported that hehad been detained in Belarus. He was detained back in July 2024, but the details of his persecution were only revealed now in a BT report. Nakanishi is being held in a KGB pretrial detention facility on charges of "intelligence activity" (Article 358-1 of the Criminal Code). The Japanese citizen faces up to seven years in prison in Belarus.
Immediately after the broadcast of the BT program, Tokyo lodged a protest with the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi stated that the program's content violated human rights.
On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
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A renowned basketball referee. He was arrested for creating a basketball chat room.
He was detained in January 2024 while returning to Belarus. He is currently in pretrial detention. He is accused of "insulting Lukashenko" and "creating an extremist group" under Articles 361-1 and 368 of the Criminal Code.
Syritsa had previously believed that coming to Belarus was not associated with major risks. His wife was also detained at the border (she served a day in custody). The chat participants were summoned for questioning.
Alexander Syrytsa was one of the top basketball referees in Belarus for many years. He has been a FIBA referee since 2005. In 2019, Syrytsa and his colleagues filed a lawsuit against the basketball federation, lost, and was blacklisted. He lived in Australia, ran a business, and frequently visited Ukraine.
On January 16, the KGB designated the "Fund of Belarus Friend LTD" as an "extremist organization." It was then reported that Belarusian citizen Alexander Syritsa was associated with it.
On December 13, 2025, he was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
A research fellow at the Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus and a trade union activist, Kondratyuk is accused of posting negative comments on social media that discredited the government and insulted Alexander Lukashenko.
The activist was detained along with several employees of the Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus on September 5, 2022. He received 13 days of administrative arrest but was never released.
The appeal was heard on July 11, 2023. The verdict entered into force.
He was scheduled to be released on September 3, 2025.
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Natalia Zhlobo works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literature of the Faculty of English at Moscow State Linguistic University.
The arrest took place at the end of March, and since then Natalya has been in jail. The exact reason for the detention, as well as the number of the criminal article, is still unknown, but we are talking about a political case .
On October 6, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.
On April 21, 2023, Vladimir was tried in the Central District Court of Minsk and sentenced to four years of restricted freedom in an open correctional facility (called a "chemistry" facility) and a fine of 200 basic units (7,400 rubles). Vladimir managed to partially serve his sentence.
Several months later, Vladimir was re-arrested at a "chemistry" facility to increase his sentence. He has been in custody since July 10, 2023.
Vladimir was accused of leaving an offensive comment on July 5, 2021, referring to a police major with the Ivanovo District Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate (IDD) as "scum" on the "Punishermen of Belarus" Telegram channel. In 2020, the police officer was tasked with "maintaining public order" and was involved in the administrative cases brought against Belarusians en masse for participating in protests.
Released in June 2025.
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A citizen of Poland. As it turned out , Robert Tompala has lived in Belarus since the 90s, has a residence permit, and is a co-founder of OrionSvit LLC, a company that supplies confectionery products.
He was released in April 2025.
Forcibly deported to Poland, banned from entering the Republic of Belarus for 8 years.
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19 year old student of MSLU.
Before the verdict was announced, the girl had been in custody since September 2, 2020. She was found guilty that on March 6, 2022, she pasted a leaflet containing slander against Lukashenko on an advertising banner on one of the streets of Minsk. According to the position of the prosecution, she spread false information about Lukashenko.
The girl admitted her guilt and said that she had printed out a leaflet and pasted it together with her friend to draw people's attention to what was happening in the world. Witnesses reported about the sticker to the police. The girl were identified by CCTV cameras.
Aleksandr Osipovich is now 48 years old. He is a product of the Minsk Dynamo youth system. At the adult level, Osipovich first played for the Dynamo farm team in D2, from where he was called up to the youth team (he eventually played 15 matches there). He made his debut for the main team of the "white-blues" in mid-1997 - he began to appear regularly in the lineup, and the team won the championship title. Later in his career, he played for Lithuanian "Zalgiris", Polish "Zagłębie", as well as other clubs in Belarus and neighboring countries. After finishing his career, Osipovich became a football agent and also worked as a "football tutor".
At the end of 2022, Alexander was detained by "security forces" in Minsk. Later, human rights activists managed to find out that on January 9, 2023, Osipovich was "tried" under the article under which they punished for "insulting" Alexander Lukashenko (now they have added his family members there). The "sentence" was passed by Oleg Kalyada, who has more than one "political" case under his belt.
According to human rights activists, he has already been released.
In October 2022, the entire Karyakin family was detained: brothers-musicians Dmitry and Vladimir, their mother Olga and father Yuri.
Olga's detention became known only on January 20, 2023. Earlier it was reported only about the detention of the brothers.