Pursuit is over

On September 15, 2023, 57-year-old Gennady Vasilyuk was fined for "distributing extremist materials." Subscriptions to "extremist" materials were found on Gennady's Odnoklassniki page. Furthermore, Vasilyuk was dismissed from the locomotive depot "by mutual agreement."

On December 7, 2023, Gennady was arrested in connection with a criminal case for "defamation of Lukashenko" (Part 1, Article 367 of the Criminal Code) and placed in pretrial detention. The case was heard on February 22 and 26, 2024.

The man was accused of posting "likes" on three videos featuring economist Yaroslav Romanchuk on the social media site Odnoklassniki on June 8, 9, and 17, 2022.

Gennady admitted his guilt and stated that on the specified dates in June, he traveled to a village in the Zhabinka district, as confirmed by a mobile phone statement. He uses a push-button phone, so he couldn't have accessed Odnoklassniki while in the village.

Prosecutor Yegor Kronda found Gennady's guilt fully proven and requested a sentence of one year and six months in prison for him.

Gennady was convicted a second time on September 16, 2024, for participating in protests. His wife and three others were also convicted along with him. According to the court, the charge against all three was that on August 10, 2020, in Brest, people "shouted slogans, whistled, clapped, displayed white-red-white banners, and stepped onto the roadway." In doing so, they allegedly grossly violated public order.

The court sentenced Gennady to one and a half years in prison, but taking into account the unserved previous (political) sentence, the final sentence was only two years in a general regime penal colony.

He was expected to be released in October 2025 .

Detained for participating in the protest on August 10, 2020. A pro-government channel showed a video filmed on September 10, 2020, where a young man simply stands on the roadway of Masherov Avenue among protesters, and then leaves the road. The same channel showed the arrest: special forces with shields and machine guns burst into the young man's apartment.

Andrey is a foreign language teacher who worked in an IT company before his arrest.

On May 31, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

Sergei was released on November 22, 2025.

On June 14, 2024, the appeal was heard and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, he was expected to be released in April 2026.

Diana is a 34-year-old Brest resident. Works at EPAM and leads the testing team there. After the start of the war, she and her son, who is now 7 years old, went to Tbilisi. But at some point I decided to return to Belarus, although I traveled abroad from time to time.

On her Instagram there is a photo from Warsaw, which dates back to June 29, 2023, three days later a photo from Mir Castle was published. And then the girl disappeared from everywhere.

On May 3, 2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

Released in autumn 2024, possibly by pardon.

Ilya was arrested in late October 2023 and convicted twice under Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus ( distribution, production, storage, and transportation of information products containing calls for extremist activity or promoting such activity). A criminal case was then opened for slander against A. Lukashenko.

According to human rights activists , he will be released in the fall of 2025.

Sergei and his wife were detained in November 2023. Before the trial, Sergei was in custody, and Tatyana was under recognizance, since the family had two minor children.

According to the prosecution , in August 2020, Sergei and Tatyana took part in an unauthorized mass event, together with the protesters they marched through public places in the city, the central square, and Zhilibert Park. At the same time, they showed a pre-made poster measuring approximately 2.5 x 3 meters, on which a text containing slanderous information against the president was written in black and red colors, thereby deliberately spreading slanderous information against him in connection with his execution powers of the head of state.

The accused Sergei Chizh fully admitted his guilt at the court hearing. He explained that the poster was heavy, and it was soon rolled up, and after the procession, Sergei burned it.

Tatyana Chizh did not admit guilt to the charges, explaining that she was depressed due to the serious illness of her mother, who is disabled.

They were identified from photographs from the Internet.

Natalia was detained during a massive security forces raid on January 23–24, 2024, targeting the relatives of political prisoners and those expressing solidarity with them. She was convicted in a criminal case opened under the article "assisting extremist activity."

She was released on March 20, 2026, as part of a pardon following another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole.

She was detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.

On March 19, 2026, she 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).

She was sentenced to arrest for a period of 3 months for taking a photo of herself standing on the roadway. Victoria is a citizen of the Russian Federation. After serving her sentence, she was forcibly deported to the Russian Federation and deprived of a residence permit in the Republic of Belarus.

Victoria has three children, two of whom are minors (the youngest is 3 years old). Before the trial, she was on bail for her house.

After the verdict, she was taken into custody in the courtroom.

On 26.04.2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.

According to human rights activists, she will be released in the winter of 2024.

On April 2, 2024, Olga had a hearing of her appeal. The verdict came into force.

He was accused of leaving a harsh comment under a post on Odnoklassniki in September 2020, which criticized Alexander Lukashenko and posted it on his own page. District Court Judge Shamal found him guilty of insulting Lukashenko (Part 2, Article 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus) and defamation (Part 2, Article 367 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). He appealed the verdict to the Mogilev Regional Court. The appeal took place on April 11, 2024, behind closed doors, with the participation of a panel of judges chaired by Judge Irina Teplova. The regional court ruled that the charge of "insulting Lukashenko" under Part 2, Article 368 of the Criminal Code, was excessively imputed and should be excluded from the charges.

According to calculations, he was supposed to be released in the spring of 2026 .

However, this had little effect: Sergei Shekh's sentence was upheld.

Naftan member and drummer of the Paranoia Dolls group Dmitry Shalak was detained last summer, then he was given administrative arrest.

But the persecution of Dmitry did not end with this arrest. Criminal cases were opened against the man under two criminal articles of the Criminal Code: 369 - Insulting a government official; 368 part 1 - Insulting the President of the Republic of Belarus.

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).