Andrey, the owner of the Grodno ethnic store "Tsudounya," was arrested on February 6, 2025, in connection with a criminal case related to the 2020 protests and later sentenced to restricted freedom.
He founded the store in 2015. After the 2020 elections, the business faced fines and the threat of losing its premises, but Andrei remained in Belarus and continued to support it, believing it was important for the preservation and development of Belarusian culture.
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).
Trial outcome 16.05.2025
1 year 6 months restrictions of freedom with referral to an open-type correctional facility.
A 62-year-old employee of the computer science and communications laboratory at the Mozyr Oil Refinery.
Igor Shukanov was brutally and demonstratively detained on August 1, 2024. The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GUBOP) arrived from Minsk to pick him up. He was detained right at his workplace. He was then driven in a UAZ Patriot vehicle outside the plant's gate. Not far from the bus stop, in a parking lot near the plant's main entrance, where people were present at the time, the GUBOP officers staged a demonstrative beating of Shukanov: they dragged him out of the UAZ, threw him face down on the pavement, kneed him in the head, and handcuffed him.
Remarkably, that morning Igor was tried on an administrative charge for spreading "extremism." He was fined and released, only to be arrested a few hours later.
According to calculations, he was supposedto bereleased in early 2026.
Trial outcome 26.02.2025
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
He was a suspect under Part 1 of Article 342 before the trial. He was ultimately convicted under Articles 328 and 329 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.
Trial outcome 13.08.2021
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Dmitry Chebanik said in a video published in September 2024 that on August 9, 2020 , “he was with his friend in the city center [Baranovichi] at the protests, he saw people chanting there, clapping their hands and shouting, he saw security forces.”
Trial outcome 17.12.2024
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Danila is a student at the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. On October 18, 2024, in the Novobelitsky District Court of Gomel, he and his mother Elena Chibisova were convicted under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (rape distribution of extremist materials). The outcome of that court hearing is unknown. After that, a criminal case was opened.
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).
He was arrested in early September 2024 and received two sentences under administrative article 19.1. He spent about a month in the Okrestina temporary detention facility, after which a criminal case was opened for insulting Lukashenko A. and he was transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1.
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).
Ivan was arrestedon September 20, 2024.Hewas convicted several times in a rowon administrativechargesunder Part 2of Article19.of the Codeof Administrative Offenses within 24 hours . Ivan was releasedonly onDecember 1 , 2024, after spending more than two months behind bars.
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